|  | 
03-27-2011, 02:42 PM
| | | | Bored guess ill learn slap... lol
Sign in to disble this ad
I really was against learning slap.. but im really bored with bass right now so i figure ill learn slap..
the only slap i like is tasteful slap like louis johnson slap ...
I hate slap that sounds not funky..
slapping is all about the dead notes i figured out... slapping fast requires you to hit alot of dead notes for the rhythm.. by dead thumps, plucks, and left hand slaps |
03-27-2011, 05:38 PM
| | | | Limiting yourself by not learning a style isn't the most intelligent thing a bassist can do. Go for it dude.
__________________
Buddhist Bassists Club #4
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts. -Voltaire
|
03-27-2011, 05:48 PM
| | Temp Banned (TOS Violation) | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stouffville, Ontario | | | It's fun to slap and pop!
Fred |
03-27-2011, 09:28 PM
| | | | I'm sorta doing the same thing....played bass for a long time, as well as upright, but never really learned slap style. So now I'm trying, it's tough at first though. btw, do most guys "pop" with the middle finger? I find it almost more natural with my forefinger |
03-28-2011, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cross Lanes, WV | | | I don't know about anybody else, but I "pop" with whatever finger happens to be next to the string I want to hit. Or whichever one happens to not hurt. Or all three of them.
Right-hand (or left-hand, or two-hand, or pick) techniques aren't "styles", they're just tools you use to get the sounds that are in your head to come out right. |
03-28-2011, 02:32 PM
| | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX Limiting yourself by not learning a style isn't the most intelligent thing a bassist can do. Go for it dude. | I play what I like... What's wrong with that? If I don't like the music why play it? Some ppl u know don't take playing bass too seriously lol :P. It's all fun for me
__________________
If I keep practicing one day I might be good
|
03-28-2011, 02:37 PM
| | | | I pop with all 3 right hand fingers (Except pinky!)
you should be able to pop with all 3 in a row, it's kind of silly to limit yourself to having to alternate a pop and slap every note. also I like to do these really fast pop triplets with all 3 fingers, really cool like rhythmic fill even if im not slapping/poping in general sounds like a little machine gun burst or something |
03-28-2011, 02:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Slapping really wakes up your left hand muting technique..........I still slap like....well okay just not to good, but it did wonders for my sense of rhythm and string control. |
03-28-2011, 02:45 PM
| | | The three finger pluck is impressive technique.. I always have crowding problems when trying to pluck with more than 1 finger... My ring finger on my right hand doesn't work  it's like super weak
__________________
If I keep practicing one day I might be good
|
03-28-2011, 05:20 PM
| | | | After going through two slap book. I'm not any better to came up with a slap line but I can do almost everything. Almost because I'm really not good if I try to play anything from Victor Wooten.
And after all that ... I got sick of it. It seems every bass player slap. Too many bass player do slap solo that consist of normal slap line but at 250bpm instead of a true solo.
Also, the 3 plucks slap, I can't do it but I can play like a classical guitar player ( thumb, I M R in a tremolo effect ). |
03-28-2011, 08:58 PM
| | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thlayli  Or whichever one happens to not hurt. | Right on! haha |
03-28-2011, 09:05 PM
|  | Bartle doo? | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Missing Mountains | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thlayli I "pop" with whatever finger .... Or all three of them. | Are you a Simpson?
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by YCBass Fortunately the smell is only there when you actually put your face close to the holes, otherwise you wouldn't notice it in playing position... |
Fuzzrocious #2 / B1S #2 / S.A.S.S. #15 / WA #37
|
03-28-2011, 09:13 PM
| | | Funny thing for me is when the first time I learn to play & read bass the book was slap technique titled "Chopper Bass" which written in... Japanese Language.. So beside note chart, there's only Japanese letters (LOL)
Contrarily, along my career I consider that slap is not for me cause I think I never good in do that 
Think about it, maybe because I 'mislearn' it at the first time from a language that I don't understand (Japanese)..
Still laughvto my self to remember that  |
03-28-2011, 09:18 PM
| | | | I admit I don't really like 'metallic' kind of slap (80s 90s). I like more '70s' slap playing type ( Sly & the family stone, Larry Graham, Louis Johnson etc).. They are so 'creamy' & 'full meat' for me... |
03-28-2011, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ocean Shores, Washington | | Bored? You could learn some jazz standards from the fifties. You know, stuff by those bebop cats like Ray Brown. It's not easy to play through ten minutes of fast moving changes without repeating yourself. The guy was a genius. Lots to learn there and I never get bored with it.
__________________
The sum of a plucked string's travel is a perfect circle.
|
03-28-2011, 10:23 PM
| | | Feel bored too weeks ago, and yes learning slap crossed my mind too, but instead, now I'm relearning my basic technique in hope to pursue to be able to play 'jazz' tune like Ray Brown's plays you mention and etc
+1 on the 'Ray Brown' things
But learn something 'new' and different than we ussually does (like slap) is cool too
Also learn other instrument than bass (whether to play them at that instruments or adapt them to play on bass)..that's cool too IMHO | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
