Where do you slap?

[ZoSoIV]

Where do you slap?

[Silas Martinez]

WHEN I slap, which is pretty rare, I tend to slap just below the edge of the fretboard. Just feels like the right place to do it.

[JimmyM]

It IS the right place to do it.

[amacintosh]

I slap right by the neck, but in one song I was writing with a friends band I was slapping almost on the bridge because that was the sound they wanted for some reason. Wierd sound...too bridgey

[BassFTW]

depends, if I'm just messing around with some heavy beat on my B and E strings I'll slap near the bridge because the tone fits better. I used to slap right before the neck otherwise, now I slap on my 24th-22nd frets (my other bass only had 20, so it's essentially the same position though)

[fredo]

Slap right onto your very last fret... that's where you get the most punch and clarity!

[BassFTW]

I slightly disagree with Fredo's post. It's probably because of how I slap though, I slap down and through the string, resting my thumb on the one below. So I can afford to hit a couple of frets up. But for a straight on technique, he's right. Very last fret all the way.

[AmazingGracePlayer]

I thump around the 22nd fret.

[pil]

Over the pickup, sounds alright to me

[mutedeity]

It really depends on the kind of tone you want. If you slap in one position then you will get one tone, and so on.

[SuperDuck]

I slap above the fretboard, which ends up being at about the 21st/22nd fret on a 24 fret 'board.

[dvh]

Originally Posted by pil

Over the pickup, sounds alright to me

So does your string resonate off the fretboard? If I slapped over the pickup I'd get big pops from the strings hitting the pickup poles.

Maybe your technique is different?

I slap at the bottom of the fretboard.

[joelb79]

Over the very last fret or just below it is generally regarded as the proper location. Whats harder is thumb orientation and actual touch. I never get those two right so I gave up on slapping.

[chicagodoubler]

Where do I slap?

On disco tunes at weddings.

That's just about the only time I won't get fired for it. But in that context, m*therf*ckers just love it.

Sorry.

Where you slap really depends on alot of variables. If you double thump, you gotta be off the edge a little.

For variations, youtube Marcus Miller and Larry Graham and see how different their techniques are.

[mutedeity]

MEGAbump

Also, I like to slap in the shower, on a train in a plane, in the rain on a bus, in the shed and so on..

[bassteban]

Left cheek, then duck & run.

[ZoSoIV]

I get the best boom from my slap-sound when I strike the string maybe two inches away from the bridge. It seems I in the in vast minority on this one, but it just feels like the string reverberates much more when I hit it here.

[Valerus]

Closer to the neck.