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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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#165
I must say that i dont enjoy much the "regular slap"...i dont like the sound much...But i love to make all that rythmic stuff so doublethumb is my favorite.



i sometimes play really soft, but i like to keep those ghost notes there...
 
#168
Blunt said:
Well now every dude can double thump. Its impressive but now that every dude does it it loses its impact.

Melody will always win. Miller has shown that.

Reindeue has taken it to a whole new level.

I love the virtiuosity.

But can they walk a line.
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Alright...I saw tons of videos on the internet of guys "slaping" or "doublethumping" but how many of them got groove? 3 or 4?

The video i´ve posted here is just show of technique and it was meant to be like this. But IMHO you cant say that it isnt grooving...

I love melody too...I like tapped ballads and so on...or "just" figer-style lines that are grooving...
 
#169
Blunt said:
Well now every dude can double thump.
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Not me :hmm: I dont know any chords or harmonics either. :o:o:o:o

I can slap 48 hrs straight though, without stoping. The callous I have is here to stay boba :)

Hey, would someone please tell me what all you need, to make decent utube video ?
I have a 300 dollar digital camera, isnt there a better way though ?
Ive got broadband internet. What all do you need ?
 
#172
It´s not logical, ´cos the technique is quite different...

but the way i see it "traditionalists" are quite prejudice...

When you start to do something with your thumb they stop to listen what your playing - from now its all bad...

Once i played with a great drummer and he said: hey, you´re playing with your thumb all the time..Play with your fingers some "groove". I said: Ok. And i played same thing with same ghost notes and stuff with my fingers...He seem quite satisfied and said...yeah...thats much better...:)

I think, that people should be more musicians then drummers, guitar players, bass players etc.

If i culd play a drum solo on flute and it would sound good...where is a problem?
 
#173
" How is tasteful slapping dated?" It's dated in the same way the theme song for the tv show "Friends" is dated. It sounds like something that was more popular in the past. I don't think you can deny the fact that slapping was much more popular & heard on many more recordings 15-20 years ago than it is now. Don't get the idea that I hate slapping, popping, burping...etc. I just find it's uses pretty restricted. The amount of practice time required to really master it doesn't balance out with it's relevant use for me. In the recent mag article profiling Robbie Shakespeare, he says something about slapping which I found interesting. He said that in the 80s everyone was slapping & that gave rise to the synth bass. Because the bass no longer sounded like a bass & was not filling that spot, they used a synth to play the bass part. I get that.
 
#174
Moe Monsarrat said:
in the 80s everyone was slapping & that gave rise to the synth bass. Because the bass no longer sounded like a bass & was not filling that spot, they used a synth to play the bass part. I get that.
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I don't. Synth bass came to prominence in the 80s because synthesizers did. People were writing songs on synthesizers, including the bass parts. The sound caught on, people liked it, and so artists kept using it. There were isolated occasions where bands used synth parts along with bass guitar - 80s Rush and Level 42 are examples - but they did it deliberately, not to compensate for some lack of sound spectrum ability on the part of the bass.

I find that supposition to be so much horsewash.
 
#175
Ok, there are alot of people who play genres where slap is obnoxious. I won't deny that. But there is a whole world of music where slapping is a valid form of expression. I think alot of the negative opinions of it are based on hearing all those young kids wailing away on higher ground in the local GC. I try to be open minded and accepting of alot of tecniques provided that it grooves and isn't going to lead to injury.
 
#179
JAUQO III-X said:
Check this out

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275103

and check out the comment in post #4
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Please, try to understand me, will ya?

I´m not a native english speaker and it´s sometimes quite hard for me to explain myself correctly...

I wanted to say, that lerning this technique for other players might be "senseless", cos´the parts Doug plays with this technique could be played with regular slap with same sound...

On the other hand: I like Doug´s playing...especially the way he uses his effects..BUT..I also like to try to find the mistakes he does or even things that could be played better...

I hope you´ll get this right : I´m not bigheaded, but i think that if you study someone´s playing with all the great stuff he does and all those mistakes you are going to learn more. It keeps your head open.

So please, try to think about it first...thx
 
#180
jenich CZ said:
I wanted to say, that lerning this technique for other players might be "senseless", cos´the parts Doug plays with this technique could be played with regular slap with same sound...

On the other hand: I like Doug´s playing...especially the way he uses his effects..BUT..I also like to try to find the mistakes he does or even things that could be played better...

I hope you´ll get this right : I´m not bigheaded, but i think that if you study someone´s playing with all the great stuff he does and all those mistakes you are going to learn more. It keeps your head open.
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Could you point out his mistakes ?I really would like to know the mistakes that are/were made in his approach to pretty much being himself.
 

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