help with amazing slap technique

PATTY1 · #1 12-31-2009, 12:02 PM

can somebody tell me how this guy is doing this, its on youtube at, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAW6ICAvGRA , i hope you can find it, it looks all right hand to me, sixteenths i believe, but so smooth and fast, please help me guys, i want to learn this...ps. if the link doesn't work, try searching " slap on fender sig geddy lee jazz bass "

Sav'nBass · #2 01-01-2010, 07:53 AM

This might explain it better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7IxvfOxTQ

My fingers are so stiff they hurt just watching that... LOL.

phatphillss · #3 01-01-2010, 10:30 AM

Watch the vid and practice every day should get ya close.Both my thumbs are double jointed i could probally never do that.That geddy vid the guy sounded a bit sloppy.get that victor dvd.

PATTY1 · #4 01-01-2010, 10:33 AM

i don't believe this guy is doing the same thing victor is doing, it just doesn't look like his thumb is plucking the string on the way back up, his attack is too in and out instead of down and up like victors.....i don't know? its so dam fast !!

**pacojas** · #5 01-01-2010, 10:46 AM

he's just slapping the thumb down and pulling the index finger up. just mute accordingly. it's not that hard. just start slow and build up speed. that dude is still learning from my impression of that clip. gl.

PATTY1 · #6 01-01-2010, 10:50 AM

thanks pacojas i'll start off with a metronome and work on it, but right now when i do speed it up it still sounds like i'm missing extra notes ( or hits) , hopefully it will come

**pacojas** · #7 01-01-2010, 11:01 AM

patty, take your time and one fine mornin',....

darthkgrim · #8 01-01-2010, 11:08 AM

I believe he's doing a lot of percussive slap with his left hand as well. Dave Larue covers some of this in his latest "Fun with bass lesson" at basscentral.com. Wish I could link you to it but you'll have to go to the sight and sign up for their free mailing list to view it. But it basically covers applying a rythmic style slap with both hands in a type of numbered pattern i.e. 4's or 5's.

Check it out if you can and enjoy.

**pacojas** · #9 01-01-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by darthkgrim

I believe he's doing a lot of percussive slap with his left hand as well.

true dat!

PATTY1 · #10 01-01-2010, 01:34 PM

ya i noticed that as well but only near the end, the begining to me still sounds like he has 4 thumbs bouncin away....tough stuff indeed, at least for me

stflbn · #11 01-01-2010, 01:44 PM

Non-musical wanking. In my honest opinion.

phatphillss · #12 01-02-2010, 10:38 AM

Agreed ^

PJSShearer · #13 01-02-2010, 01:08 PM

This clip from Mark King explains the percussive slap technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQEO55-_tdw

Now where you'd get to use it once you've learned it, apart from posting clips on YouTube that is, could be difficult :-)

PATTY1 · #14 01-03-2010, 09:42 AM

hey that mark king clip was cool, pretty close to what that other guy is doing i think

air_leech · #15 01-03-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by stflbn

Non-musical wanking. In my honest opinion.

+1

get Ed Friedland's DVD, lots of info on various technical aspects of slap bass as well as some great examples of musical slap basslines that could actually work in a song format as opposed to the spitting contests on YouTube.

PATTY1 · #16 01-03-2010, 06:27 PM

spitting contests.....ha ha ..love the metaphor

looka1/4 · #17 01-08-2010, 09:03 PM

Its physics, objects in motion, quite frankly, enjoy staying in motion. "Insane slapping" = slapping(really fast) + muting every note you can possibly imagine and then some (between tones) + hammers + pulls offs

Very extreme Les Claypool imo
But thats all it is...organic chemistry

Oh, and never stop beating it...think pantera