guitar'ds slapping!!

[varunkapahi]

i was watching the demo videos of the new boss DD-7 and in the looper video demo http://www.roland.com/demos/en/i0067/index.html
http://media.roland.com/en/v/v0510/v051003M.mov
you see guitarists playing slap style on guitars...this is the first time i saw something like this and it sounded pretty cool to me me

what do you say guys?

ps: dont bash me for praising guitards but i did find it cool

[mjolnir]

I give you Victor Wooten and his brother dukin' it out. His bro's doing the slap thang on his geetar:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8vdJvHE8qxA

[bassteban]

I thought this was going to be about when a geetard grabs your bass, all nice-like, then proceeds to slap the ************** out of it, breaking strings, wood chips, plastic & sparks flying, saying 'Man, I'm funky!" [hurling smilie here]
Yeah, real g****rists can def'ly slap.
[calming down, now]

[mjolnir]

Originally Posted by bassteban

I thought this was going to be about when a geetard grabs your bass, all nice-like, then proceeds to slap the ************** out of it, breaking strings, wood chips, plastic & sparks flying, saying 'Man, I'm funky!" [hurling smilie here]
Yeah, real g****rists can def'ly slap.
[calming down, now]

Haha... My guitard did that last practice, told me he absolutely HAD to play bass for a song or two and made us switch (even though he knows I despise playing electric g****r...). Whenever I went into the song he went NUTZ, playing the cheeziest poppy slap riff REALLY HARD... and on my brand new Warwick FRETLESS too, just got it.

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by bassteban

I thought this was going to be about when a geetard grabs your bass, all nice-like, then proceeds to slap the ************** out of it, breaking strings, wood chips, plastic & sparks flying, saying 'Man, I'm funky!" [hurling smilie here]
Yeah, real g****rists can def'ly slap.
[calming down, now]

lol thats why i keep my bass to my self.
anyway would not that be kinda hard on the guitar to slap and pop and mute the other strings along considering the kind of string spacing on geetars?

[rob2966]

The guitarist in I Mother Earth (first 2 album were great) also slap and pops the guitar on occasion.

Later
Rob

[Infernal Affair]

I thought that slapping was a classical guitar technique that they use sometimes.

[kevteop]

Originally Posted by varunkapahi

would not that be kinda hard on the guitar to slap and pop and mute the other strings along considering the kind of string spacing on geetars?

Nah - try it, it's easy enough. The hard part is not digging in too hard with the pops and pulling the string several inches off the fingerboard, but I suppose guitarists have a better feel for skinny guitar strings than we do.

[Parabolic Box]

Originally Posted by mjolnir

Haha... My guitard did that last practice, told me he absolutely HAD to play bass for a song or two and made us switch (even though he knows I despise playing electric g****r...). Whenever I went into the song he went NUTZ, playing the cheeziest poppy slap riff REALLY HARD... and on my brand new Warwick FRETLESS too, just got it.

Did you smack him one?

[mjolnir]

Originally Posted by Parabolic Box

Did you smack him one?

Naw, I just started slapping really hard on his Strat (really nice American Fender too ) and he got the picture. Works every time.

[MyUsernameHere]

I can't seem to find anything too exceptional from him on the web, but I saw this guy open for Al Di Meola few years ago and he just kills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3poiVuGEX0