slapping

[sunshineplaysbass]

can someone please teach me how? thank you thank you thank you

[irishslappop]

are you level 25 yet? if not go do some quests.














search the lessons forum

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/lesson.php?lessonid=148

[funkyhoney]

i imagine a music teacher of some kind could teach you, i cant just tell you how, you'll be ****

[jordan-z]

dude thats a reeeeeeeeeeeeel big teach man... and the BEST thing to do is find a somebody locally who can help you out, there are so many variables and little things withen the technique which would make it extremely hard to teach someone over the internet...

sorry if i destroyed your hopes man but the best thing to do is sit down with someone who knows what their doing and move that way...:thumb:

[Jameslar]

Check out some slapping videos on Youtube or Googlevideo, and emulate their style

Good luck man, easiest stuff to start on is Chili Peppers (for songs) and scales, remember to go slow and use proper technique

[Misanthropic]

dude thats a reeeeeeeeeeeeel big teach man... and the BEST thing to do is find a somebody locally who can help you out, there are so many variables and little things withen the technique which would make it extremely hard to teach someone over the internet...

sorry if i destroyed your hopes man but the best thing to do is sit down with someone who knows what their doing and move that way...:thumb:

Well it ain't THAT complicated. I learnt to slap through the internet (lessons/videos).

[da_s_man13]

Learn yourself by looking at lessons/videos, thats how i did it.

[jordan-z]

Well it ain't THAT complicated. I learnt to slap through the internet (lessons/videos).

slapping invovles a lot of stuff. its not just thumping and plucking and it can get pretty complex once stuff starts getting advanced, i still think that its best to learn in person with someone who can interact with you :)

[lais817]

OMFG!!!!1 U DN'T NO HOW 2 DO DA SLAPZ?!?!?! URE SUCH A N00B!!!! LMFAO!!!1!!11!1!!one!111

dude, learning to slap via the net is one of the hardest things to do, like the guys above have already said, and get a local bass player to show you :thumb:

[Aukai]

My friends learned in about 3 weeks from me, it took me like half a year to learn on the net, but it will sink in more.

[Damrod]

Or just try out. It's not that hard. With a bit of testing and experimenting on two band rehersals I could lay down simple slap lines.

[Richi]

When I first started out, one of my friends(guy who gave me my first bass..how nice:) ) told me that slapping is pretty basic...just stick your thumb out, point it towards the head and twist your wrist so your thumb essentially bounces off the string. Popping soon followed that naturally due to the way my hand moved after a good slap.

[lateralus423]

OMFG!!!!1 U DN'T NO HOW 2 DO DA SLAPZ?!?!?! URE SUCH A N00B!!!! LMFAO!!!1!!11!1!!one!111

dude, learning to slap via the net is one of the hardest things to do, like the guys above have already said, and get a local bass player to show you :thumb:


Not THAT hard, thats how i had to learn was various articles and videos and my technique isnt horrible, so yes it is plausible to learn from the internet.

[mikethecoug]

i originally played like flea, but got some lessons off sheephead to point me in the right way and now i can do it right, its not hard slapping from internet lessons

slap through the strings, parrallel

[monkey_dancer]

I've learned some through the net, but my technique is terrible really.....If you really want to learn, get somebody who can teach you personally, be it a friend, a relative, a teacher (good option) or a cow...

[Shinobi_sniper]

That german dude on youtube has good technique

[GuitarZan33]

Not THAT hard, thats how i had to learn was various articles and videos and my technique isnt horrible, so yes it is plausible to learn from the internet.
Self Taught slapping techniques are the absolute worst kind of self taught techniques. Slap Bass is way to complex to figure out on your own.
Good Luck:thumb:

[lateralus423]

Self Taught slapping techniques are the absolute worst kind of self taught techniques. Slap Bass is way to complex to figure out on your own.
Good Luck:thumb:



Oh really? Im pretty sure mine isnt bad thanks much though :smoke:

[Richi]

How can slapping be too complex to figure out? How do you think it got started in the first place?

[bassmancrv]

its not really that complex at all.. i learn on my own in maybe a week, sure it was sloppy at first, but it got cleaner

i used to think it was impossible because it looked so fast in videos, but if you slow it down its really not hard

just try slapping octaves at first trying to make the thump sound like a thump and not a mute ( that was hard for me at first ) then focus on pulling the string out and letting it bounce against the fret board for the pops

once you got that just run through some simple paterns

G------------------------------3h4
D-----5-----3-----5----3---------
A---------------------------------
E---3---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-----

RHCP- skinny sweaty man ( i think )

G------------------------------
D--------2----------5--------7
A-----------------------------
E---0--0------3--3-----5---5

RHCP- Higher ground

those are some easy paterns i can think of off the top of my head..

just have fun with it, and remember what gives you the slap sound... making the strings bounce off the frets ( thinking that way helped me alot)

good luck

[roee_co]

first one is get up and jump :p sorry i'm a rhcp freak

[bassmancrv]

ahhh yea yoru right my bad

[MyFriendOfMisery]

Roee good job. Is Higher Ground a little off though? Its different than my tab.

[bassmancrv]

it might be... haha these were all off the top of my head.. and with no bass in the room

[Richi]

There's one note missing. Obviously the timing can't be spot on since it's in tab form. :)

[MyFriendOfMisery]

G--------------------------------
D--------2------------5---------7
A--------------------------------
E---0--0----0---3--3-----5---5--

It's hard to tab a song off the top of your head, for me atleast. That's what my guitar pro tab says anyway.

[bassmancrv]

yea thats right.. damn both my attempts to help out were wrong.. :mad:

oh well.. those "licks" will serve their purpose of helping a fellow bassist learn to slap

[MyFriendOfMisery]

Don't feel bad, we all mess up from time to time. I can't slap though, I think I have too high of a string gauge. I can't bounce off the strings and it's hard to pop, but I don't feel extremely pushed to learn it at this time.

[bassmancrv]

hmm unless your string gauge is really really high.. it shouldnt limit you from slapping.. what gauge are they?

[MyFriendOfMisery]

They are .105 on a crappy squire with a pretty high action, trust me its a pos to try to slap on. The strings are pretty tight for standard guage which is good for fingerstyle.

[thelowsoundofbass]

Keep at it, it will take a while to get down good. There are a lot of differing opintions on what is proper techneque. IMO if you slap through the string and come to a rest on the string below (eg slapping the E you would come to rest on the A string), it is much easier to get a good sound and it is just as fast. That is just my opinion, do what works best for you.

lowsound

[bassmancrv]

They are .105 on a crappy squire with a pretty high action, trust me its a pos to try to slap on. The strings are pretty tight for standard guage which is good for fingerstyle.


hmm i actually used to have those on my old squire they do suck.. i learned slapping on that though.. through alot of sweat.. and blood haha, good luck learning though, try getting new strings? :chug:

[MyFriendOfMisery]

Thank you. They are Elixers and they aren't completely dead yet, although I got them right before christmas. Their nerves are still twitching so they will stay on a little longer. I got another even crapier bass that I may put some lighter gauge strings on to learn with, that way I can use the squier for fingerstyle.

[Bass Queen]

slapping invovles a lot of stuff. its not just thumping and plucking and it can get pretty complex once stuff starts getting advanced, i still think that its best to learn in person with someone who can interact with you :)
intelligent comment

[snoop-au]

Check out some slapping videos on Youtube or Googlevideo, and emulate their style

Good luck man, easiest stuff to start on is Chili Peppers (for songs) and scales, remember to go slow and use proper technique

Just be careful what sort of slapping you search for :)

I'm still trying to figure out how to make slap bass on my fretless sound any good ... just doesn't sound the same without frets :(

[Chameleon]

Self Taught slapping techniques are the absolute worst kind of self taught techniques. Slap Bass is way to complex to figure out on your own.
Good Luck:thumb:

Your talkings have no sense.

[Aukai]

intelligent comment

Haha.

"It gets complex when it gets advanced!"

[ScorpSath]

I tried to learn from mx actually. I had this brutal weird style then I saw my friend slap and I was like "that's it?"

[bass&cookies]

i think i picked it up fairly well from the internet. it took a little while to develope, and i'm still not that great, but if you find a good lesson it's really no too hard to pick up