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Slap bass - no longer mainstream?


Al Krow
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[quote name='scannerman' timestamp='1508357072' post='3391698']


Gm is my slap key preference!
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I use it more for fills in our set, or in a bridge maybe. We only do a couple of tunes that need it. Punters do like it. The breakbeat 16ths thing is so cliche, but people love it.

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If your good at it, and I mean really good and know when to use it, that's great. Otherwise it can come off as very corny, IMO

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That is all performance ever summed up.

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Slap is about tone. If your tone is good and you can groove tightly its very nice. The odd bit of exhibitionism is also ok but machinegun bollocks - not even musical.Good pick work an be every bit funky.Its a tool which, if used well and in the right place, gives some great accent in a broader palate. For me its in - I don't care what other people's hang-ups are.

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[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1508675606' post='3393675']
Slap is about tone. If your tone is good and you can groove tightly its very nice. The odd bit of exhibitionism is also ok but machinegun bollocks - not even musical.Good pick work an be every bit funky.Its a tool which, if used well and in the right place, gives some great accent in a broader palate. For me its in - I don't care what other people's hang-ups are.
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+1 to that! I'll have to 'fess to bringing out thumb slap for my first time ever at a gig on Saturday night just gone. Just one track in a 2 hour set: Kinks "You really got me". Not done on the original, I know, but just really seems to fit. And it was fun! :)

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