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02-18-2007, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wethersfield, CT | | | Who says you can't slap on fretless?
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Who says you can't slap on a 6 string fretless either?
Talk to my man Les Claypool<link to vid.
(Tommy The Cat live on Dennis Miller show w/ YYZ intro tease)
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02-18-2007, 09:31 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | I have no idea, who does say that? |
02-18-2007, 09:48 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | "Real Bass Players Don't Slap Fretless Basses."
Long before the electric bass was even invented, the whole slap and pull technique was implemented and invented by double bass players who wanted to project their sound. It was good way to get you heard above other players. It also provided some percussive feel in situations where a drummer was lacking. I think they did more pulling than thumb slapping?
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02-18-2007, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oregon City, OR | | | I use to slap on a fretless... Although I find that when I'm playing slap it sounds better on a fretted... Les Claypool blows me away though :P |
02-18-2007, 09:57 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Yeah, for the most part I find fretless slap to sound pretty naff...Les gets a good woody sound though. |
02-18-2007, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | You actually can slap on a fretless, and as a matter of fact a lot of players do it.
I personally do not like the sound, and I do not like the way it feels on my hands when I slap on a fretless (this may sound bizarre). |
02-18-2007, 10:01 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | Of course you can slap on a fretless, I can, but it sounds 'ok' at best (on my bass!), not good enough to really use in a song context. Imo |
02-18-2007, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kane, PA | | | i learned slap on a fretless. i didn't realise that the sound was off until i got my fretted
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02-18-2007, 07:35 PM
| | | | I do it all the time. Always have. |
02-18-2007, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I have never heard anyone say that.
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02-18-2007, 08:16 PM
| | | | Don't anyone tell Norwood Fisher you can't. |
02-18-2007, 08:29 PM
| | | | Do they ever play all of YYZ? |
02-18-2007, 08:40 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | | very cool vid, thanks for the link to that. |
02-18-2007, 09:43 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | | I heard it was bad for the wood on the neck to slap a fretless, is that true?
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02-18-2007, 09:44 PM
| | | | It can eat up the heel of the neck, if you do it a lot. |
02-18-2007, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | Very cool video. Thanks.
Slap on a fretless is great 
...just ask Bakithi Kumalo  |
02-18-2007, 10:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oregon City, OR | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Basshole  It can eat up the heel of the neck, if you do it a lot. | Thats why you use a slapplate or epoxy the fretboard  |
02-18-2007, 10:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fryBASS Who says you can't slap on a 6 string fretless either?
Talk to my man Les Claypool<link to vid.
(Tommy The Cat live on Dennis Miller show w/ YYZ intro tease) | Thanks for posting that video. I included it in The Slap Bass Welcome Center.
Joe
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02-18-2007, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by thumbin Thats why you use a slapplate or epoxy the fretboard | I have an MVP Pentabuzz with a polyester fretboard, but I like the sound of my Warwick Thumb 5 fretless much more (naked neck). Norwood slaps his 'Wick, and it's NOT epoxied. |
02-19-2007, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Basshole I have an MVP Pentabuzz with a polyester fretboard, but I like the sound of my Warwick Thumb 5 fretless much more (naked neck). Norwood slaps his 'Wick, and it's NOT epoxied. | You failed to mention that its a naked EBONY fingerboard, one of the hardest woods you can find in nature and the best wood for fretless. My old fretless was a Pau Ferro Fingerboard Peavey Accelerator, and I ate four millimeter deep valleys down the neck within 6 months of playing on it. My fretless now is a Zon... long live phenolic/birch fingerboards!
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