People who whine about slapping

[Lardass5000]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE ME SOME SLAP BASS!

 

[350125g0]

Man, bass players are such dweebs about this subject. Like what you like and stop making everything a crusade.

FYI - picks are best. Fight me.

 

[BassJuju]

Perhaps the notion is fostered by social media, the prevalence of attempted slap bass in local music establishments, and the presence of non-stop bickity-bickity in the bass wing at NAMM. Certainly, a big part of bass history, started on EB most famously by an awesome bassist who found himself without a drummer. In addition, the style can fight the pocket if used inappropriately and we all know, "You can't hold no groove, if you ain't got no pocket." Thank you Victor, one of the most talented bassist and a fair slapper himself.

 

[SpankBazz]

Personally, I find it ironic when people whine about people whining about people whining about people whining about slapping.


Yet here I am.

Well played, sir.

 

[devnulljp]

 

[WG Plum]

I've got a structured settlement, but I need cash now.

 

[Jason Schulhz]

My problem with slap bass is that the majority of players are slapping root and popping octave, rinsing, and repeating on the other chords. Guess what- that is the same freaking note! There is a chord progression with four chords, and you have slapped and popped a total of four notes, which are all roots! How did you convince yourself that sounds good? It works musically to play all root notes, but it is not very impressive.

How many bass lines are there where the whole thing is slap bass? (Not many). Yet how many demos of amps or pedals are there where the bass player slaps 100% of the video?! Did it ever occur to you people might want to know how it sounds finger style or with a pick?

 

[DrayMiles]

Having respect for others that don't agree with your view and considering their
reasoning is a character trait that is slowing going the way of the dinosaur.

I can slap, but I dislike hearing it used by people that aren't paying attention to the harmony or song.
Slapping is like putting ketchup on everything on the table. It doesn't always add to the dish...

Voice your opinion, but choose your words carefully to garner the respect you want to receive.
Not just to say FU to whomever disagrees... That's not good etiquette, and you're supposed to be a
'sensitive' artist if your a musician, not a S*** stirrer.

I respectfully consider your gripe... With a smile and a wink...

 

[JimmyM]

My problem with slap bass is that the majority of players are slapping root and popping octave, rinsing, and repeating on the other chords. Guess what- that is the same freaking note! There is a chord progression with four chords, and you have slapped and popped a total of four notes, which are all roots! How did you convince yourself that sounds good? It works musically to play all root notes, but it is not very impressive.

How many bass lines are there where the whole thing is slap bass? (Not many). Yet how many demos of amps or pedals are there where the bass player slaps 100% of the video?! Did it ever occur to you people might want to know how it sounds finger style or with a pick?

Sounds good = impressive.

 

[Nev375]

 

[Jeff Hughes]

“Slap the bass” is to bassists what “play Freebird” is to lead singers.

 

[MichelD]

You wanna slap, slap. I don't give a poopie.

Not even on my radar to worry about.

 

[bass12]

How do we define what is or isn't whining? Is it defined as any statement that's critical of, or contrary to, a specific subject? If that's the case, then I think we're all "whiners" to some degree.

I've never met a person who wasn't critical about something, or who didn't criticize someone for being critical about something. It can easily become an endless, pointless argument.

Man, you're just hating on the critics of whiners!

 

[TerribleTim68]

I mostly whine about the fact that I suck at slapping.
Especially when my wife says "I love that, can you do that?"

 

[thmsjordan]

Move to the double bass, where slap is respected and historically goes back to the early 1900s with early jazz (ie: Pops Foster).

One might even say that it goes back even further to Tobias Hume's composition "Harke Harke" in 1605 where the first written instance of Col Legno appears for the bass (then Gamba). Granted, Col Legno is done with the bow, but the concept is the same. The string is "slapped with the wood of the bow to obtain a percussive sound.

Col legno - Wikipedia

 

[Liam Wald]

It's just sooooo last century.

 

[Sparkl]

Move to the double bass, where slap is respected and historically goes back to the early 1900s with early jazz (ie: Pops Foster).

I mean... Ok, I'll bite even if it smells like trolling to me.

What on earth does time-span of a certain technique have to do with anything? Remember, saxophone used to be laughed at as a jazz instrument. Clarinet was "da thing" back then. What if Hans had wheels and flew to the moon to send an sms to jupiter...

 

[Acoop]

Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the pea beneath their mattress.
Personally I can't see how this subject becomes a subject in a thread in a discussion that I'm contributing to. ...
Can't we live in peace.

 

[lordradish]

That's kinda whiny.

I don't buy that it's just people who can't slap that whine about it. I can slap, but I only do it where it fits, and in much of what I play, it doesn't.
I think it's more that a good portion of slappers don't use it appropriately or just wank when they do. In music stores (are those still a thing), the bass equivalent of the guitar wanker is usually that guy.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Slapping is okay, I guess. I'm pretty bad at it.

What really grinds my gears is when people play twenty harmonics in a row on a six string fretless.

I keed, I keed..