Again, where are you guys hearing this? Please provide some examples! Youtube? GC? Local bar bands? Mark King?
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Is Slapping Over? I Think It Is.
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That's the problem, they are NOT hearing it. They just don't like slap and are digging deep to find excuses to justify their positions. otherwise this thread would be full of examples of bad slapping.
Oh noes!!!! Link Removed Not slap bassing!!!
Actually, that video was posted on Oct 3, 2010. So slap has been passe since Oct 4, 2010....
Randy
Slapping is a technique, it won't ever die. That just sounds silly and it's implying techniques on other instruments can die. Sure you don't really find people playing bass with their thumbs, but then again the electric bass was relatively new then wasn't it. Whatever i'm gonna just keep playing bass. And yes I do slap ocassionally.
There's a Youtube bassist who's user name is hjfreaks.
He slaps a ton of metal, and does a crazy rendition of Judas Priest's Painkiller.
Like I said, i've seen it more reserved, but to me it's one of those styles I always hear fast, you know? I love the sound at times, but it's not the sound I strive for.
So basically the style is dead because either:
A) You just happen to not like it, or
B) This one guy, in the whole world of bass players, plays slap in a way that isn't traditional.
I'm not trying to point a finger at you specifically, just trying to make a point. One should know that this is NOT the norm, and to base an opinion off of the minority of something when you know (or at least should know) that it's the minority is silly. It's just like the earlier analogy with guitar solos; just because a couple people can't do it right doesn't mean it sucks.
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A lot of metal guys are incorporating slap into the music because it makes string skipping easier during certian quick riffs and lends itself really nicely to staccato'd, syncopated rhythms. James Leach (SikTh) and Ryan Martinie (Mudvanye), for example, are guys you should really check out.
As for funky slap? Yes - it's gone from the mainstream because the styles of music it mas used for (almost exclusively) are no longer popular. It happens. I slap a handful of times in every gig because a muted pop, or quick octave bouncing fit perfectly. Very uncommon when you consider the amount of finger playing that I do.
As for funky slap? Yes - it's gone from the mainstream because the styles of music it mas used for (almost exclusively) are no longer popular. It happens. I slap a handful of times in every gig because a muted pop, or quick octave bouncing fit perfectly. Very uncommon when you consider the amount of finger playing that I do.
Absolutely! I have a good friend who plays accordion all the time at his gigs or at open mics!If that's true, then even accordion isn't "over" yet...
Randy
Ahhhh........youtube! There you have it. Youtube does not a professional make! Point me to professional working bands who's bassists plays slap badly! I doubt anyone here can find any top gigging professional band that has a bassist who stinks at slapping! Most negative opinions are based on amateur youtubers and Guitar Center hacks!
DWBass said:
I much prefer this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMy8x7AkBF0 The way it was intended to be played!
Someone seemed to go a little overboard with the flanger. Not my particular taste in music personally. I prefer funk or technical metal when listening to slap bassists
This guy is much better.
Uh, that's Victa! He's better than everybody! Andre Berry is Funk! I don't think you know your funk! Obviously you like that speed slap playing which is fine. But it's watered down slap funk! When slap came on the scene, it was all about the funk. Real funk! Hair is a Larry Graham composition. You know, Larry Graham, the father of slap bass!
Being new to this, and therefore having not had a chance to comment in the apparently myriad anti-slap threads that have gone before, I say:
Meh. Personally I don't slap the bass - I learnt the technique (probably quite poorly), and I will freely admit that it's really impressive to watch somebody doing it well...I just really dislike the sound of it. It's a personal thing, and a good psychiatrist might be able to trace it back to browsing music shops and hearing yet another inexperienced bassist thwacking away wildly at some unfortunate bass in an attempt to impress. Conversely, there are numerous songs I love that feature a bit of slapping and popping in the bassline - as long as they fit the song, they don't offend me.
As for my own playing, I mainly use fingerstyle but have become accustomed to throwing in various different techniques to get the sound I want - and slap just isn't one of them. It isn't likely to become one of them in the near future, but who knows? I don't think slap is over - I just sometimes wish we could exact a bit of a cull and leave only the bassists who can do it well, and save it for when it's appropriate. In many ways, I suspect it will bob up and down on the tides of musical fashion in a similar manner to guitarists who shred. (And in just the same way, I'd call for a cull there, as well...)
Meh. Personally I don't slap the bass - I learnt the technique (probably quite poorly), and I will freely admit that it's really impressive to watch somebody doing it well...I just really dislike the sound of it. It's a personal thing, and a good psychiatrist might be able to trace it back to browsing music shops and hearing yet another inexperienced bassist thwacking away wildly at some unfortunate bass in an attempt to impress. Conversely, there are numerous songs I love that feature a bit of slapping and popping in the bassline - as long as they fit the song, they don't offend me.
As for my own playing, I mainly use fingerstyle but have become accustomed to throwing in various different techniques to get the sound I want - and slap just isn't one of them. It isn't likely to become one of them in the near future, but who knows? I don't think slap is over - I just sometimes wish we could exact a bit of a cull and leave only the bassists who can do it well, and save it for when it's appropriate. In many ways, I suspect it will bob up and down on the tides of musical fashion in a similar manner to guitarists who shred. (And in just the same way, I'd call for a cull there, as well...)
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