Whether it be Slapping or Tapping or whatever technique someone uses, Too Much of anything becomes Annoying...
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basses on you tube...really? Slap rant...
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OP is complaining about entertainment that is provided to him free of charge. He was requesting that those who do the reviews, free of charge, do them in a different manner to please him. The suggestion was that if a particular video bugged him because of the slap, he should turn it off and look at a different video, rather than make the somewhat empty request (here, no less, instead of in the comments on the video itself) that they play less, or no, slap bass in the video.
I am not asking the OP to not make posts like this. I am saying he is wrong to think requesting someone who is providing something free of charge should change their ways to suit him, and doubly wrong to ask them here, instead of in the comments section of the actual videos themselves. To me it sounds like whining.
TL; DR - He was not merely expressing an opinion, he was specifically asking other random anonymous people to change their behavior to suit him. Just because most of the music OP plays might not have much slapping in it, doesn't mean there are not other styles where it is prevalent.
I don't think he was formally requesting anything. I took it as a rant about something the OP has experienced a lot. Something you see on here and every other message board on the internet ALL THE TIME. Its no different than someone ranting about drummers, guitar players, bass players not smiling, wearing shorts, or whatever else they feel like ranting about. Do you take other rant threads as specific, formal requests to everyone that person is ranting about? I hope not....
I take things at face value. If you really have trouble with my post, then maybe consider taking it as a rant as well.
Ever see a football player needlessly jump on the pile of other players comprised of about half of both teams? Well, here I go...
I rather enjoy the slapping in reviews. To each his own. It's a technique just like any other and for every person the video irritates, there's another person who'll benefit from it. As others mentioned, I can't tell what the slap tone would be like from a fingerstyle only review.
It's too easy to just stop watching and move on to the next video if we don't like it.
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Ever see a football player needlessly jump on the pile of other players comprised of about half of both teams? Well, here I go...
I rather enjoy the slapping in reviews. To each his own. It's a technique just like any other and for every person the video irritates, there's another person who'll benefit from it. As others mentioned, I can't tell what the slap tone would be like from a fingerstyle only review.
It's too easy to just stop watching and move on to the next video if we don't like it.
No... it clearly isn't. Besides, where's the fun in that?
In some ways, I'll agree. But on the note of agreeing. Slap is considered one of the styles where you at least wanna know how the tone of the bass sounds when your using that technique. So upon putting the question out there, in mind have you given yourself those considerations. If your a bassist, as I'm assuming you are. What if you were on a gig doing a song that called for some slapping but you never considered the tones. I'm quite sure the band members would be turning their heads.
A good review will make sure that all bases are covered. All basses too. They'll use a variety of different techniques and settings to show what the gear sounds like in most circumstances. They'll try it in a rock setting, a jazz setting, a blues setting, a metal setting, a funk setting (slap is ok there), and so on. They'll ensure it's got good sound quality (DI or properly mic'd up amp) and good video. There are a fair few pieces of kit that I've bought purely because of well-made youtube reviews that helped me decide what to go for.
I walk into L&M in downtown Toronto yesterday and some guy, who was old enough to know better, is very loudly 'bad slapping' a bass through a distoration pedal. ... I turned and walked out the door.
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It's too easy to just stop watching and move on to the next video if we don't like it.
You don't like a particular video? Dont watch it, Don't Cry about it!
That Simple, That Easy
I hear plenty of good and bad playing, including slap at the local GC. It'll never drive me out the door. I'm there to see what have in stock. If something interests me, I grab it and plug in and do my own noodling. Maybe I'm driving someone out the door (I doubt it). As for YouTube, I'll just sift through the bad demos until I find one that gives me what I'm looking for. I can discern amateurs from professionals. If I want to hear pro players, that's who I look for. You guys fussing about amateurs playing badly or overplaying is nonsense. Go see and listen to pros play. You won't hear any bad playing.......of any style. But seriously.......stop the fussing.
