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To slap or not to slap/why I hate it

To slap or not to slap/why I hate it

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#264
I look at slapping as a couple of different mindsets. There is full on "slap mode"-this is the normal slap-n-pop thing we all know about. Then there is slapping purely for tone and attack, in this mode I approach my lines just as I do when I am playing fingerstyle but slap the notes to achieve a different, "fat all at once" kind of tone. I often alternate between different techniques, fingerstyle with popping on the high notes, slapping with fingerstyle runs n rips on the higher notes, I'm a bit $luTT@y like that! I also use an aggressive fingerstyle that closely simulates a slap tone, I find this is one advantage to playing a bass tuned down with lower string tension.
 
#265
htotheh said:
Slapping makes you look stupid. Thumping doesn't, and yes there is a difference.

Slap 'n' pop = bad (just listen to it, sounds so ghetto)
thump and pluck = good (and better if you can do it like Wooten)
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Hmm.....htotheh had started a post about this statement he made that somehow mysterously disapeared??? Did you go to youtube like I told you to and check out the MASTER Larry Graham? Louis Johnson? Marcus??? :rollno: Did'nt think so! :scowl:
Bobbo 77'
Passing on the knowledge that was passed on to me!

What the does "sound's so ghetto mean????
 
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#274
I asked this question in another thread that was ultimately removed: What is the difference between "Slap and Pop" and "Thumping"?

I think someone posted two links with different examples of each but I was behind the filter at work and could not access youtube. Could someone please explain the difference and provide examples... pretty please. :D
 
#275
xgabriel said:
This is my vote for the least intelligent thing ever said on talkbass.com....:scowl:
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Agreed. That is just nonsense.

I believe that, like any other technique, slapping (or thump-n-pluck) has its place. Sometimes I use it and sometimes I don't. I was watching a Victor Wooten video and he mentioned this, too. I saw Bootsy play years ago and most of what he did was the good old two-finger pluck. He slapped when the music called for it. But he was funky the whole time.

You just have to pay attention and make MUSIC. Don't just stand there and slap because you can.

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#276
OctoberMooN said:
What is the difference between "Slap and Pop" and "Thumping"?
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Slapping and popping is just the modern word twist on Thumping and plucking.


they're the same thing just the titles to each technique has been changed,when black electric Bass innovators and pioneers of the technique first started it was called thumping and plucking and when it caught on with with musicians in the 80's it was then called slapping and popping.

thumping is the same as slapping and popping is the same as plucking.

In the 30's acoustic Bass players like Slam Stewart and Milt Hinton were doing it and what they were doing was called slapping.

And no my answers to the question are not racist just what history has shown us.
 
#280
I believe that a very intelligble quote by a smart man seems to hold true

"Often times people confuse the (slap) technique with the people who use it." Marcus Miller is the man who said this and I beleive it is true. Granted many people do use it in a un-musical crappy show off way, blaring it in GC's all around the nation, but THis does not make it a bad technique it makes these people bad players.

I seriosly say listen to Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Larry Graham, and Louis Johnson. These people do it right they do it groovy and supportively, yet when it comes time to solo they don't just slap they use the right choice of notes combined with their solo.
Go buy Luther Vandross's "Never Too Much" or some Spyro Gryra CD's and some Graham Central Station and Brothers Johnson these demonstrate good slap technique. Then go buy Marcus millers Solo stuff which demonstrates great melodical slap playing.

The people who attempt to play Victor Wootens style are not seeing the point either. He uses it as a solo technique or sparingly if you listen to some Bela fleck his grooves are great and not just double thumbed wankery.
 

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