Metal slap?

[Risen Ashes]

Rob Trujillo
Tony Choy
how about Faith No More?
I know you dont want to get funky but it's Faith No More dude!

 

[brianbj46]

it's not exactly metal, but "what was i thinking" by 311 is a cool slapped song.

 

[Grueber]

it's not exactly metal, but "what was i thinking" by 311 is a cool slapped song.

also "Nutsymptom" by 311. On the live version, the use the slap bass riff as the intro

 

[Daniel Trolie]

Faith no More's "Angel Dust" has alot of metal and slap.
Worth checking out

 

[chaosMK]

Listen to Blackwater Park by opeth(the song) most tasteful slapping in metal

There is slap in that song?

 

[ThorBassManiac]

+1 to Trevor Dunn (of Mr. Bungle) and +1 to Choy on Elements.

Also, a little more vague example could be Jean Baudin in Nuclear Rabbit. He gets really heavy and slap oriented on a lot of tracks. Some of the material is not metal, per se, but the technique/sound is there. Check him out on MySpace at myspace.com/jeanbaudin, he has a lot of Nuclear Rabbit material there.

 

[Sarbecue Boss]

There is slap in that song?

yes about two-thirds of the way through, Martin also slaps The Grand Conjuration live.

 

[MrSuperstar]

Amazed nobody has mentioned Novy from Vader. Check his videos for some sweet circle headbanging Slapping.

No Martinie, but still.

 

[Soma1322876]

Toshiya from Dir en Grey pretty much plays nothing but slaps in their recent two albums. He is non-funky

 

[fractiouslowend]

Its hard to have a non-funk slap because slap was created by Larry Graham for funk. It is a funk technique, but to answer question I reccomend Rober Trujillo in his Suicidall Tendencies era.

couldn't disagree with you more.
It's not a funk technique, it's a technique (mainly) used in funk.
Huge difference

 

[djaydjay]

+1 vote for Ryan Martinie, one of my favourite.

Another one that comes to my mind is the bassist for "the arusha accord".
Dead to Me
Quite technical and they actually have the guitar pro tabs of their songs on their websites. Could be quite interesting to read/play (Link Removed).
And they put "jams" of their songs with only bass+drum on youtube. That's actually how I discovered them.

 

[Mayers]

If I were to do some slap in metal ... I would just put a Pop somewhere in the riff to make a note jump out where you don't expect it.

 

[The Lemon]

Check out Psychostick.

 

[LowSide121]

Evan Brewer. Man can that dude slap.

 

[fractiouslowend]

If I were to do some slap in metal ... I would just put a Pop somewhere in the riff to make a note jump out where you don't expect it.

did you just say if you were going to use slap / pop in metal you would do this by using slap / pop?
huh?

 

[metalstorm]

When I was younger, I thought it would be great to add slap to a metal song. As I grew up and matured musically I realized that I wasn't doing it to serve the song but more to stroke my own ego. Personally, and this is just my opinion, but I don't think slap belongs in metal and you only see it amateur bands. Have any of you recorded slap in a metal context? I would be curious to hear.


TS: if you know what sound you are looking for why do you need to find other people doing it? Why not just create it?

 

[chaosMK]

I'm always slapping my B string notes in metals, gives you a great and usually much-needed attack.

I'd say 1:45 on in this is good example. On the more shreddy parts (beginning riff) I'm usually using a T/Slap-R-M-I pattern.

Left Brain - Solipsism (2010) - Kali & Emanations Raw Bass Mix by dr_thunda on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

Plenty of slapping used here too 55 chorus is basically a slap line, heavy parts in the middle use slapping for heaviness...):

http://soundcloud.com/dr_thunda/left-brain-solipsism-03-io

lol.. this is a 2007 thread... and I posted in it back then!

 

[Mayers]

did you just say if you were going to use slap / pop in metal you would do this by using slap / pop?
huh?

No ... hum let's try with a musical exemple :

My firend metal demo by mayers on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

It's my frien who recorded all the stuff ... and yeah there is a note at the end of each riff that is pop you can clearly hear it and I think it is a very good way to use slap ( no matter the music style )

 

[grendle]

-1 to fieldy.

not a fan of his playing

i think ryan amrinie fom mudvayne is the best example of metal slap out thereEUR(IMO)....check out the cd LD 50....some mazing stuff on there.

+100

Listen to "dull boy" from Mudvayne. There's a video on you tube of just his camera from the video. There's slapping on just about every Mudvayne album I think. He does blend it with other techniques usually.

 

[Calder]

The bassist of The Arusha Accord uses slap in pretty much all the stuff they do. Crazy tech/prog stuff. The Arusha Accord - Dead To Me - YouTube