Bands that use a lot of slap bass?

Chula Vista · 12-02-2014, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Level 42, for the win?

Yup.

OP said bands that use a lot of slap bass regardless of genre.

Neapolitan · 12-02-2014, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Yup.

OP said bands that use a lot of slap bass regardless of genre.

It wasn't the genre in question, just that you thought he beats all. Like Rexx said, there a ton of them.

I know it's a different technique, but if it's all genre's I guess slapping a dog house counts. Jimbo Wallace (stand-up bass player for Rev Horton Heat) and Lee Rocker and I should know more standup bass players.

Oriphiel · 12-02-2014, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

It wasn't the genre in question, just that you thought he beats all. Like Rexx said, there a ton of them.

I know it's a different technique, but if it's all genre's I guess slapping a dog house counts. Jimbo Wallace (stand-up bass player for Rev Horton Heat) and Lee Rocker and I should know more standup bass players.

The Hillbilly Hellcats had a great stand-up bassist, if you're looking for more of them.

Rexx Shredd · 12-02-2014, 08:02 PM

Granted, I have seen some incredible Upright players nailing Triple Slap like its nuthin'....I still dont think URB slap technique ( which is done as a hand grab/palm technique) is what the OP is after (funky thumbs!)...The only thing that URB slap technique and electric slap technique share is the word "slap"

Norg · 12-02-2014, 10:29 PM

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Dylstew · 12-03-2014, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

The Hillbilly Hellcats had a great stand-up bassist, if you're looking for more of them.

Isn't that called a double bass?

Anyways, thanks for the reccomendations.

Neapolitan · 12-03-2014, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Dylstew

Isn't that called a double bass?

Anyways, thanks for the reccomendations.

Oriphiel isn't wrong, it just goes by many different names.

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The double bass, or upright bass, also called the string bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass, bull fiddle or simply bass... In folk and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a "bass fiddle" or "bass violin" (or more rarely as "doghouse bass" or "bull fiddle"). Double bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chula Vista · 12-03-2014, 07:39 PM

^^^^^

Larry Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rexx Shredd · 12-03-2014, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DaMuttaFunka

It is my understanding, correct me if I am wrong, that Larry Graham basically invented the slap bass. Story I heard goes like this. Larry was playing in his churches band, and they often did not have the room for a drummer. He started improvising by hitting those low notes with his thumb while playing the higher notes with his other fingers. Now this could all be made up (but if it is, I am not the one who made it up). I don't recall where I read this but it was within the last 6 months so it is out there floating about the net somewhere.

That said, there were certainly MANY slappers who came about that IMHO put Larry to shame, but if the story is true, they would not have even existed were it not for his innovation. If anyone has more details, I would love to hear them.

Larry invented it -- first song to utilize it is "Thank You for Lettin Me Be MicElf" by Sly and The family Stone....but guys like Louis Johnson, Stanley Clarke, and Marcus Miller (just to name a few) took that ball and ran with it....

These days, there are TWO basic forms of slap bass

Traditional - the Larry Graham method where the side of the thumb hammers/thumps the string. Stanley Clarke, Louis Johnson, Mark Adams, Abraham Laboriel, Chuck Rainey, Marcus Miller, and countless others

Double Thumping - the Victor Wooten style where the thumb is used in an up-and-down motion like a guitar pick. This is a newer version of slap bass made popular by Victor Wooten and Dave LaRue (just to name two)

Neapolitan · 12-03-2014, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Rexx Shredd

Larry invented it -- first song to utilize it is "Thank You for Lettin Me Be MicElf" by Sly and The family Stone....but guys like Louis Johnson, Stanley Clarke, and Marcus Miller (just to name a few) took that ball and ran with it....

These days, there are TWO basic forms of slap bass

Traditional - the Larry Graham method where the side of the thumb hammers/thumps the string. Stanley Clarke, Louis Johnson, Mark Adams, Abraham Laboriel, Chuck Rainey, Marcus Miller, and countless others

Double Thumping - the Victor Wooten style where the thumb is used in an up-and-down motion like a guitar pick. This is a newer version of slap bass made popular by Victor Wooten and Dave LaRue (just to name two)

I do double thumping. I discovered it on my own, not knowing about Wooten's technique. Only cause I didn't really didn't know how Traditional was done.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	^^^^^ Larry Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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