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12-22-2010, 12:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Northshore Mass | | | Are slappers wankers?
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possibly going to ruffle some feathers here, and not sure if this has been discussed but I can remember when I first started playing, in the late 70's...going to music stores when there were other bass players...nobody was slapping. I've played in metal bands, country bands, fusion bands, blues bands, classic rock bands and would possibly spend 1 minute or less max ever slapping on a given night.
It seems like every person I watch on youtube feels the need to slap their bass well past the point of it being a "language accessory"...almost as if it's the entire language. Did Mark King start this? I've never been to a concert where there was much slapping and I've seen some of the greats. Where did all this slapping come from and is it going to end eventually?
when I get a new bass I'm always curious to hear what it sounds like slapped, but I think in reality very little of my time is going to be spent slapping on it, so why do I give a rats what it sounds like slapped? Do we buy basses that are "slap machines"...if so...why? Does anybody on here play gigs that are primarily slap? Maybe I just need to get out and about more..but I want to know what the story is here, I feel like it's the texting of the phone world...everybody wants to know if they can text...personally I suck at texting and I think it's dumb...but some people spend a LOT of time texting. Poor bastids. |
12-22-2010, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TAMPA FLORIDA USA | | | no its a style of playing
simple as that
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12-22-2010, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Nashville, TN | | Well, if a slapper is wanking than he is a wanker. But if a slapper is not wanking, than that means he is either not a wanker, or he is not currently wanking.
That would be my answer. 
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12-22-2010, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by yellofury  no its a style of playing
simple as that | this.
I think any style has its 'wankers'.
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12-22-2010, 01:00 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | Tis the season to diss slapping? Seems like the trend of the week. Drop it, it's getting stale.  |
12-22-2010, 01:03 PM
| | | | Totally lost you on the texting analogy. |
12-22-2010, 01:09 PM
| | | | I'm in the audition process for a band that's mainly slap. like primus meets rage against the machine. it's good fun
and you're darn right i'll slap in a music store - how else will I tell how the bass sounds with slap?? |
12-22-2010, 01:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Providence, RI | | | Only when they're slapping little Jimmy behind the ears.
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12-22-2010, 01:13 PM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | SO, if they're a wanker, does that make them a tosser too? I always thought the word wanker was synonymous with douchebag (for the US folks)....Tell me though, if slapping to bass is what texting is to cell phones (mobiles, If you will), what is tapping?
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12-22-2010, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | | I'm a slapping wanker. |
12-22-2010, 01:15 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Maybe.
Or maybe not. |
12-22-2010, 01:18 PM
| | | | If the "slapper" is slapping crap, then he's a "crap slapper". If, however, he's really groovin, then he's a "groove slapper"?? Sounds kinky.. |
12-22-2010, 01:19 PM
|  | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by phillipkregg Well, if a slapper is wanking than he is a wanker. But if a slapper is not wanking, than that means he is either not a wanker, or he is not currently wanking.
That would be my answer. | Heh. Indeed! I knew there was a cosmic purpose to my taking symbolic logic as an undergrad... 
IMO, any and every style is hard to do well, and easy to do badly.
Think of the crappy Jamerson imitations you've heard... |
12-22-2010, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Rockies (close to Denver) | | | Is a slapper or wanker a type of bass? |
12-22-2010, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Jackson, MS | | | It's not wanking if it fits the song. |
12-22-2010, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Louisville, KY | | Yes, they all are...  |
12-22-2010, 01:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Northshore Mass | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffTPS! Totally lost you on the texting analogy. | I meant that phones were initially not used for texting, then texting became available as an alternative mode of communication, and some circles now use texting as their primary mode of communication....although as they walk around with their heads down or smashing their car into stuff...other folks think they're wankers.
I'm not trying to diss slap...and not saying it's wrong, I'm simply asking questions here. Maybe it seems like I'm trolling and in a way I'm trolling for explanations, maybe I'm getting too old and can't relate to the younger folks. I think slapping can sound good in some cases, but I just don't get it as a primary style, that's all I'm saying. And to the one guy, I think tapping falls into this category as well, Stu Hamm and Sheehan both had mastered standard playing style before they went medieval on the extracurricular.. |
12-22-2010, 01:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | For a place that has such a common ground we all share there sure is a lot of angst about what others do. I'm often surprised at how CLOSED minded a lot of the bassists on this site are.
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12-22-2010, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass_Thumper It's not wanking if it fits the song. | +1
Am I the first one to publicly declare that this thread is in the wrong forum? It belongs in Technique.
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12-22-2010, 01:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | Slap is the musical equivalent of ketchup!
To many people overuse it and ruin perfectly good stuff with it.
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