fender-slap???

[Julien]

Are fender jazz basses and precision basses good to slap on???i'm going to buy a new buy a new bass....and i would really like to get close to the sound of slap of larry graham in the there's a riot goin on of sly and the family stone.

Julien

[Pacman]

Yes, they are.

The jazz bass is one of the most used basses to slap. Larry Graham, Marcus Miller and hosts of others use jazzes and their equivalents for the tone.

[cassanova]

Yes they are good for slap, The jazz bass is a bit better for slap/poping on than the P IMO. Not for playability reasons but for tonal reasons. The P just doesnt get as good of a slap/pop sound as the jazz imo.

[JimK]

I'd venture a guess that 90% of the forefathers of "slap" did it on a Fender bass-
Monk Montgomery, Larry Graham, Chuck Rainey, Louis Johnson, etc.
Rainey & Louis "Thunder Thumbs" Johnson used P-basses...a P-bass does give a different slap tone than a Jazz(the bridge pickup makes a difference). Maybe it's me...I dig it when I hear that old P-bass being slapped(properly).

[basstastic]

for my money you cant beat that Jazz Bass slap punch

sim