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12-13-2006, 03:33 AM
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I started slapping right after I got SlapIt! and practiced its exercises. |
12-13-2006, 03:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | Ok thanks guys. Iwasnt planning on any super advanced slapping. Just simple slower stuff here and there. Not planning on popping either since its hard to fit pops into metal. |
12-13-2006, 04:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | it is extremely important to start with good technique as well as a good fresh setup on the bass i would say. a new set of roundwounds. make sure to keep your thumb parellel to the strings or close to it and done do that dead hand twisting of the wrist downward slapping ala fieldy. this will only hurt you in the long run...i guess i will add an IMO, although i dont think it is necessary:-P
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12-13-2006, 04:19 AM
| | | | I would say learn popping also. Slap/pop is more about percussions than playing a melody, and learning some funk slap lines will help you and your technique alot to get the rythm right and be in the pocket when slapping. |
12-13-2006, 04:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon | | | It was tough for me, at first, because the bass I was using at the time was not slapper friendly. I can achieve the slap tone, but I can't employ it and put it to good use.
Slapping has never really been something I really wanted to learn, but I figure I will develop my skills, so that they are up to par sometime soon.
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12-13-2006, 12:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | Slapping came easier then popping. Doing it with a metronome and using headphones to ensure proper intonation really helped me. I've been playing bass for nearly 10 years and writing a slap style bass line for my bands music is still challenging. Then again it could be the kind of music we do. |
12-13-2006, 02:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ontario | | | yup
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Originally Posted by OKStateBass66  Since I was essentially self-taught in this department, I'll chime in. YES I stunk at it when I first started. But watching other players do it, as well as figuring out what worked for me, then PRACTICING a LOT did wonders. A couple of points that work for me (but might not for you):
1) Use the side of your thumb
2) You don't need to hit as hard as you might think
Good luck and keep working at it! | Pretty much the same for me. I was so bad at first I didn't bother pursuing it. A new bass did make a difference (went from an old Hagstrom to a Schecter Custom 4). The tone was better for slapping so it sounded better to start and inspired me to continue. 1) and 2) and the end suggestion are right on. Wehn you find yoruself getting it, it will take off.
Your Squier should have an ok tone for slap. Adjust your amp too. I find more treble helps.
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12-13-2006, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by morf I started slapping right after I got SlapIt! and practiced its exercises. | +1
It was a comlete mystery to me before I got Slap It! - After, I was slapping in days! Freaked my other bass playing friends right out! There I was, a lowly high-school freshman in the 2nd jazz band. We were backstage at a school concert and I was slapping away showing off an exercise I just learned from Slap It! and the bass player from the top jazz band was all blown away!
"Do that again!" Damn! What are you doing? Show me! Damn!"
Slap it! Tony Oppenheim - get it! |
12-14-2006, 11:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon All i have is a volume knob and another that ihavent noticed any changed when turning. Its a squier. | 
You know, when I got my squier p-bass, I had no idea that it had NO tone at all until I bought some shiny new flatwounds. The answer to your problem may be as simple as changing the strings. |
12-14-2006, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | You might be right since the string i changed (one broke) has a tad better response. But im getting a fretted G&l tribute l2500 in a week, so problem solved  But imight not be as bad as i thought. Ican atleast hit the right string (fairly well , i just didnt try enough, since i didnt get any sound it didnt appeal at the moment. Ill get some kinda instruction book/dvd too. |
12-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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12-16-2006, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Barre, Vermont | | | Slapping actually came pretty naturally to me when I first tried it, but I ended up developing some bad habits. It's been hard, now that I'm serious about bass playing and trying to improve my technique, unlearning them. |
12-16-2006, 11:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | But like, how many hours/Days of slapping did it take for you guys to be able to hit the right string and get some decent sound?
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12-16-2006, 12:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sweden | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Demon But like, how many hours/Days of slapping did it take for you guys to be able to hit the right string and get some decent sound? | Right sound? Straight off the bat. Accauracy? That takes quite a bit longer... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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