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01-13-2009, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Dallas | | | Is Slapping out of style?
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01-13-2009, 01:25 PM
| | | | yes |
01-13-2009, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Space City, TX | | | It really depends on how you do it. Open hand is so overrated. The back hand has style but I think cupped hand is making a comeback. |
01-13-2009, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Tasteless slapping is.
Buy "tasteless" I mean frantic stuff that just shows folks that you can do it - - anymore, lots of folks can slap, it's no longer rare (ah, but when it was - I *so* got the girls with it!). HOWEVER, some folks have declared that since it's "out of style" that means you shouldn't ever do it. I disagree. It is a tool - like tapping, like glissing - just don't beat it to death. Perhaps the better question might be "Is slapping still useful?" - and I would say YES.
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01-13-2009, 01:31 PM
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Endorsing Artist: MLaghus Custom Basses | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boca Raton - FL | | | Oh yeah! Marcus Miller is out of style, sure...
Folks who bash slapping are the ones who can't do it, period...
Every technique can be out of style depending on... Guess what... The style... |
01-13-2009, 01:31 PM
| | | | It's alive and well among the ' look at what I can do! kidz ' in the local music store amp rooms in my home town. Not so much among the older gigging bass players anymore. |
01-13-2009, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: fall river mass | | | was it ever in? |
01-13-2009, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Space City, TX | | | Alot of people frown the way Ike Turner did it. |
01-13-2009, 01:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey | | | No, slapping is not 'out of style.' It is used quite a bit in quite a few genres.
Bad taste will never be in style, no matter what technique you use. |
01-13-2009, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: england | | | funky slapping with rythm is deffinatly in wankfest double thumbimg to produce a sound like a fart loaded machinegun on speed is out
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01-13-2009, 01:36 PM
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01-13-2009, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canberra/Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thumpbass1  It's alive and well among the ' look at what I can do! kidz ' in the local music store amp rooms in my home town. Not so much among the older gigging bass players anymore. |
Bingo !! |
01-13-2009, 01:36 PM
| | | | I dont think so.
Different techniques for different situations.
If you can slap, tap, pick, pluck and strum, you increase your options and up your tone range. |
01-13-2009, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wellington, Ontario, Canada | | | I personally hate slapping.. And I only know 1 bassist that does it.
So yes, you could say its out of style
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01-13-2009, 01:38 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | No, but if you're slow or uncool you could forgiven for thinking it had!  |
01-13-2009, 01:40 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aurora Strings | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northeast Missouri | | | but worrying about being out of style is now in style. LOL
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01-13-2009, 01:42 PM
| | | | Im not sure the "basses" is the right forum room for this. |
01-13-2009, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by DFW_Bass Post your opinions | What's yours?
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01-13-2009, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lockport, NY | | | Who cares? If you really want to slap, then do it. If you don't, don't. If only people would stop worrying about what's in vogue or what everyone else thinks and just play what they really want to...
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01-13-2009, 01:48 PM
|  | 5-string Rider | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Home-STL; location-Hesse. | | | I say "no," it's just another technique to call upon in the correct situation. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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