What makes for a great slapper!

[Conan]

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1054914' date='Dec 11 2010, 12:55 PM']ps Larry Graham's tone rules

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This man IS Funk! Interesting how he keeps moving his right hand around and how it changes the attack, tone, etc. And that voice!!

[mcnach]

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1057119' date='Dec 13 2010, 12:00 PM']I'd have to say the best slap bass on a Kubicki came from Stuart Hamm - his chops are certainly the most phenomenal and IMO he is the best slap player of all time!

The slap solo from the "Country Music (a night in hell)" section of this video is particularly explosive...



and at 03:43 here there is another nice slap section...



I also particularly like these two videos, not only does the bloke have one of the Ex Factors with the awesome wood tops but he is a great player and the videos show how effortless Kubickis are to play. You also get a feeling of that typical Kubicki slap tone, with it's compressed bite and brilliant percussive click. Nothign sounds better in a band or on it's own IMO!



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Not too keen on that ultra bright slap tone, but some impressive stuff nonetheless.

[JTUK]

[quote name='Conan' post='1057131' date='Dec 13 2010, 12:10 PM']This man IS Funk! Interesting how he keeps moving his right hand around and how it changes the attack, tone, etc. And that voice!! [/quote]


Nuff said... some people just have it...and he has IT in spades.

[dave_bass5]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1054809' date='Dec 11 2010, 11:19 AM']Just checked out this example... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k3kqYDm44M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k3kqYDm44M[/url][/quote]

Oooooo, its like being back at the London guitar show in the 80's ;-)