Why is slap/pop bass used so rarely?
I only really hear slap/pop bass in Funk, and I've never really listened to Funk yet. Slap bass is making me want to though(But there's so much punk I still want to listen to before I'll do that..). But I did hear it in Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maximum the Hormone and the Infectious Grooves.
Why is it that I never really heard about this technique before that? Why is it that it's used so rarely in other music? Speaking of that, most music doesn't use bass all that well it seems. I love the bass The Minutemen and Nomeansno and some other punk, but in most music I can barely even hear it, since it's just playing some root notes of the guitar chord.(although punk does mostly have seperate basslines).
Slap Bass and Pop Bass sound so cool it made me appriciate Bass a lot more than before I knew what it was.
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