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04-18-2008, 03:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: CT | |  Phenomenal Slap/Funk Tech
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I found this guy on Youtube when searching for videos of a P-bass. This guy is quite impressive with the slap technique. WOW   
Well worth a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfCufZpTn0 |
04-18-2008, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: CT | | | Forget to add: What's a recommended approach to obtaining and refining skills such as this dude in the video? |
04-18-2008, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: southern cal | | | that's just clean technique dude, there are tons of good resources for basic slap drills that can be worked up and improvised on. i will say this, you can tell he practices with a drum machine a lot, good time, excellent sense of the pocket. IMO that makes all the difference in funk bass, slapped or not. i'm definitely gonna steal some of his tricks.
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04-19-2008, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by bassalo  Forget to add: What's a recommended approach to obtaining and refining skills such as this dude in the video? | It will drive you crazy but the practice method to get this kind of clean and consistent attack and tone is to p r a c t i c e e v e r y t h i n g
s l o w l y.
Don't set your drum machine to 120 bpm and jam out, set it to 60 and make sure your slaps, pops, shakes, jiggles, picks, flicks and wangs are dead on. When you can play them perfectly at 60, move the tempo up to 61 
Practicing as slow as you need to to play something perfectly is how you get as good as this guy. |
04-19-2008, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | MarloweDK actually has a website with tips and lessons and stuff: http://playbassnow.com . Pretty informative stuff.
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04-19-2008, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Great Neck, NY | | Take a look at the bass solo in the middle of this song. It starts at around 2:35. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67OnKJSRuM
Yes, it's Yanni. And, yes, the solo is phenomenal also. |
04-20-2008, 12:58 AM
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Also check out 650funkstar on youtube. |
04-20-2008, 01:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura County | | | Any suggestions on writing slap licks and riffs while we're at it.?
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04-20-2008, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Conyers, GA | | | Marlow is incredible, on his youtube page, he's got TONS of stuff with him playing, lessons and jam 'a longs. One of his bigger influences is Wyzard from Mothers Finest.
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04-21-2008, 02:40 PM
| | | | I'm always skeptical when someone says look at this great slap player.
He's nevertheless very good indeed. |
04-22-2008, 06:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: South West Sydney | | | yeah from him i learnt teen town. awesome player |
04-23-2008, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, va | | | Bass Needed for tap/slap
What would be a good bass to purchase if I am really wanting to play tap/slap? G&L? Lakland? PBass? Should I get a 5 string? How wide should the neck be? Any help would be appreciated.
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04-23-2008, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by denhamlee1 What would be a good bass to purchase if I am really wanting to play tap/slap? G&L? Lakland? PBass? Should I get a 5 string? How wide should the neck be? Any help would be appreciated.
Dennis | I don't have experience with Laklands or G&Ls, but I have a P-bass and a 5 string. I have to say the P-bass is definitely fit for the job (I believe the bass in this video is a p-bass- c.1976). Being new to slap playing myself, it seems harder on the 5 since strings are closer together. I think it's smarter to start on a 4 string to develop your technique and down the road, move to a 5 string if a. it's needed and b. comfortable for you to play that style with closer string spacing. |
04-23-2008, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Jabinski I'm always skeptical when someone says look at this great slap player.
He's nevertheless very good indeed. | This guy's the total package. Check out his 70s covers videos. No grandstanding there, just great examples of good grooves.
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04-23-2008, 11:04 AM
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Nice post.... |
04-23-2008, 12:34 PM
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04-23-2008, 12:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | Marlowe's old-school Stingray stuff is even better! 
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04-23-2008, 12:46 PM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | Marlowe is da man, check out some of the rest of his clips. |
04-23-2008, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Boy He's a TB member, no? | Yep |
04-23-2008, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by LowBSix That's a great video! I hope y'all see how relaxed he is and he's not pounding his thumb; he's gently slapping and plucking on the neck....
Nice post.... | What's wrong with attacking with vigor and popping with intensity? 
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