Even If You Don't Like Slap?

[TheBassWizard1]

I like the video below even better... however, I'd love to hear to this on a wood-necked bass. Graphite necks really showcase their "plastic-ness" when they're slapped -- they just can't achieve that woody sweetness.

Here you go...

 

[Altitude]

I like the video below even better... however, I'd love to hear to this on a wood-necked bass. Graphite necks really showcase their "plastic-ness" when they're slapped -- they just can't achieve that woody sweetness.

Again - nice. I'd like to hear him play something in Bb, though.

 

[hypercarrots]

Again - nice. I'd like to hear him play something in Bb, though.

here he is playing a BB

 

[TheBassWizard1]

Again - nice. I'd like to hear him play something in Bb, though.

Here's one in G minor, which is the relative minor of Bb:

 

[Altitude]

Here's one in G minor, which is the relative minor of Bb:

Marc, it's an excellent video and your talent is clear. You probably take my point, though - every single one of us loves to play slap grooves in all the keys where we can take advantage of the open strings as much as possible (which, really, also includes G).

My comment was actually a reference - Stanley Clarke, a long, long, time ago in a rare display of pride, claimed that he was the best of the early 70s slap players because he was the only one who wasn't playing everything in E. Decades later, I watched a brief instructional video by Vic Wooten where he also encouraged players to move away from E in order to expand their vocabularies. Frankly, neither of those guys is wrong.

Also, I tell young players that in order to become musicians, they have to play with other people, and I advise them to put themselves into jazz situations. As a string player, in a jazz situation we rarely play in E, D, G, or A. It's good to know how to be versatile in horn-friendly keys when we get out in the world.

Great work on the videos.