Basshole Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Thoughts/feeling? Is it actually possible and does it sound good enough to do so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Someone posted a Bucket head video yesterday and he was slapping his guitar but it comes off as more a percussion thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevef Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 There are a couple of "pieces" in a movie called August Rush where the kid does some nice "slapping"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Yes, you can... Well, Regi can! [YOUTUBE] [/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshole Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Any relation to Victor Wooten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Any relation to Victor Wooten? Brothers [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vdJvHE8qxA[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmurray Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Yes it is most definitely possible, a bass is still a guitar, after all; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmggwVArtAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jz2RN1F5NE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 If you can slap a bass' date=' can you slap a guitar?[/quote'] No, but you CAN slap a guitar player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laney1566 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Only if it behaves badly!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Depends on the term "slap." On a bass - especially an upright of the old style like a super-oversized fiddle, it can include plucking the string in a way that by intent gets that percussive sound as the string slaps into the fingerboard. That's why at one period of time a lotta folks literally called it a "slap fiddle." I think it's harder to get quite that sorta effect out of an electric bass although I've never played a fretless so I dunno. I've seldom seen that kind of technique used on a guitar. On the other hand, I've seen at various times especially among folkies a fingering of a chord, then slapping the strings to get something of a percussive but harmonic sound. I believe this technique has at some periods had some regular use in flamenco as well. I've used it a bit for solo guitar on electric or acoustic where it might kinda fulfill the position of a rhythm guitar. But... it's a rather different sorta technique. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Check out this video of Ben Lacy. Although he does a lot of slappin' for percussion he does also use the technique very melodically at about 2:20 of the video. I've seen this guy twice in concert (one of the times we were on the same bill), and he has one of the most "alternative" playing styles I've ever seen to make actual music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adlankj Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIANTRobOT420 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmggwVArtAM[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikko18 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I have been doing a some slap stuff on guitar lately. A little bit like that tomo guy but then in other ways too. I don't really know how to explain it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I can slap guitar and I do when I play a little jazz... but for my life I cannot slap bass! How weird is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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