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Seems a lot of people need to get out to more and better gigs, if their metric for judging a bass technique (or anything else) is what goes down in a music store.
I never took the time to improve my terrible technique, and I haven't run into a time where I regret that. It's not something that I personally find useful. I've also started associating slap with those eye-roll moments after someone says "Oh! SLAPPIN DA BASS MON" or "Play Seinfeld!" after I say I play bass.
Super cool when someone is proficient and tasteful with it. But that could be said about everything can't it?
Super cool when someone is proficient and tasteful with it. But that could be said about everything can't it?
Why so much hate for extreme metal? People just enjoy being sour.It's almost impossible to play anything from the 70's & 80's without
using slap...so why all the hate?? I get that some folks try to apply it
to everything, which slap really isn't meant for everything...but it does
have legitimate playing uses!
So is it a case of folks hating on it because it's really best for Disco/Motown,
and should never be used elsewhere?? Or just a general slap hate as a whole??
It should be a tool in every bassists arsenal, to my way of thinking.
Not the only tool, just one of several screwdrivers...
Hate is a word that gets tossed around too readily these days. Hardly surprising when you consider how everything seems to get hyped completely out of proportion the minute certain individuals feel the slightest bit offended about something these days. Even something as trivial as slapping on a bass. You’ve apparently never encountered actual hate if that sounds like hate to you. There’s nothing even remotely resembling hatred coming from anyone anywhere in this thread. So a little less drama please?
To me it’s like Stairway To Heaven
It was great the first 300,985,635 times i heard it, but not so much after that.
Oh and BTW, i don’t hate slap, i just think it was grossly overused once upon a time but not so much these days. I think a lot of what is actually slap saturation, slap fatigue, whatever, is mislabeled as hate.
It was great the first 300,985,635 times i heard it, but not so much after that.
Oh and BTW, i don’t hate slap, i just think it was grossly overused once upon a time but not so much these days. I think a lot of what is actually slap saturation, slap fatigue, whatever, is mislabeled as hate.
Sorry. Yes.
Strive for a little more precision in word choice and usage. A good place to start would be by taking a look at the actual definition of the word ‘hate.’ I think you’ll see the word ‘hate’ doesn’t have any real bearing within the context of this thread despite the unfortunate choice of words the OP picked for the title of this thread.
For me it's part of the vocabulary not a whole language. But I can't listen to the harpsichord for very long either. That has a tinny percussion sound too but slap is harmonically more static because you rely so much on open strings. I know Marcus slapped "Teen Town" but that quality of slap is rare.
My take is that it's much like the resentment toward anything different from some people- tube vs solid state amps, basses with more than 4 strings, different techniques- finger, pick,slap, tap, whatev....
Some folks will want to define boundaries- others want to break them down. I love hearing any kind of bass playing as long as it grooves, but when it starts sounding like an academic technique/shredding demonstration or exercise, it gets tiring- regardless of technique or gear used. A lot of what I hear as bad slapping falls into this "look what I can do" territory. FWIW I don't slap (except on upright), play a 4 string, play tube or SS gear....
Some folks will want to define boundaries- others want to break them down. I love hearing any kind of bass playing as long as it grooves, but when it starts sounding like an academic technique/shredding demonstration or exercise, it gets tiring- regardless of technique or gear used. A lot of what I hear as bad slapping falls into this "look what I can do" territory. FWIW I don't slap (except on upright), play a 4 string, play tube or SS gear....
I know the meaning of the word, thanks though.Yes.
Strive for a little more precision in word choice and usage. A good place to start would be by taking a look at the actual definition of the word ‘hate.’ I think you’ll see the word ‘hate’ doesn’t have any real bearing within the context of this thread despite the unfortunate choice of words the OP picked for the title of this thread.
Generally, those who can't slap well or at all are the ones who bad mouth it. It honestly feels like a jealousy thing with some of these folks. That's so weird.
EDIT: Five pages in, and my prediction holds true. How trivial
EDIT: Five pages in, and my prediction holds true. How trivial
