Alright, so I'm pretty natural at slap bass for the amount of time I've been playing (8 months). I slap with my hand angled more downward. Not as dramatically down as flea, but its definitely not the thumbs up type look like Buddha Dickens. So I was fortunate enough to play bass with a real expert (hes played with some very famous bands and performers), and he slaps incredibly well.
He told me that I should turn my thumb upwards, but when I try it, I can about 70% of the time get a deep resonant sound, as opposed to leaving my wrist downward with thumb pointing downard, where I can get a deep tone about 98% of the time. I've been trying to practice it a lot at home to try to get my thumb to be bouncy, and also make a sounding tone instead of just clanking.
My question is: Is it worth it to sort of evolve my slap technique to fit that thumbs up look. I've found it near impossible to get the triplet pluck done efficiently when I have my thumb pointed veyr upwards like that, but I also think the thumbs up technique looks more cool, and its also helpful in that I play a 5 string, and putting my hand in that manner means I don't have to rest my arm on the strings as much, and there wont be as much B string clanking.
So any tips on thumbs up slapping? Should I just keep on and get passed that the learning curve? Like does slapping in the thumbs up way open doors to new slapping possibilities? Thanks for any tips
He told me that I should turn my thumb upwards, but when I try it, I can about 70% of the time get a deep resonant sound, as opposed to leaving my wrist downward with thumb pointing downard, where I can get a deep tone about 98% of the time. I've been trying to practice it a lot at home to try to get my thumb to be bouncy, and also make a sounding tone instead of just clanking.
My question is: Is it worth it to sort of evolve my slap technique to fit that thumbs up look. I've found it near impossible to get the triplet pluck done efficiently when I have my thumb pointed veyr upwards like that, but I also think the thumbs up technique looks more cool, and its also helpful in that I play a 5 string, and putting my hand in that manner means I don't have to rest my arm on the strings as much, and there wont be as much B string clanking.
So any tips on thumbs up slapping? Should I just keep on and get passed that the learning curve? Like does slapping in the thumbs up way open doors to new slapping possibilities? Thanks for any tips
