I recently transitioned from being a long-time professional 4-string bass player to an aspiring 6-string bass player and immediately discovered that when slapping on the higher strings, muting is often a nightmare.
In a sense I kinda thumb mute and the tone and not with my fretting hand, but with my thumping hand. I kinda stop it on the string midphrase, but I also have a hair trigger double slap because of it
just pounding away with your right hand, like flea does. hammer the strings like there is no tomorrow. and mute with your left ;) so there is no unnecessary noise. that‘s the trick.
Back in the day, I had loud amplifiers and ridiculous stage volume, so I had to learn to mute every string that wasn't making an intentional note. In later years, I had to unlearn the muting selectively to let notes ring.
Low action makes slapping so much easier. You do not need to crank your them on the string. Also putting your volume higher and playing lighter helps as well but mostly very low action can get this done
@@JerryLeeHowell2 yes I forgot to point that out but it's most definitely low action thats making it ring. You cant get a good slap tone without low action. I would say in order of importance like this 1. Low action 2. Technique 3. Volume control ( higher volume, less strength)
@devinebass Hi Scott. Been playing bass for 40 years. I love slap but I'm just saying that alot of it is generic and unimaginative. Started to listen alot more to players like Eugene Kostyuk from the band Jinjer. He uses slap but uses it in a way that is more imaginative. Would be great to see you maybe look into other avenues of bass playing as love your channel but find the constant emphasis on funk a little stale at times especially when there is a mass of other genres that also highlight the fantastic ability of the bass and its uses. Rock on buddy🤘
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The instrumentation on this album is tremendous
Guitar, bass and drums? Yes, quite unusual combination😅
Pretty little ditty is incredible
Those strings look so smooth and finely wound
God I love this instrument! 😊😎
This was an outstanding interview i thoroughly enjoyed as are all of the interviews on this channel. Well played!
Stevie Wonder's - Higher Ground - 1973 album Innervisons
Or seignfield intro...!
BASS!!!!!
I recently transitioned from being a long-time professional 4-string bass player to an aspiring 6-string bass player and immediately discovered that when slapping on the higher strings, muting is often a nightmare.
This is so cool. Look up "sounding" for a bunch of examples like this
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kek
no way they replied lmao
@@fletcherroles5207 I'm baffled
Ti seguo sembre, tutte le sere alle 19:00,mi mandi le ultime novità, 😁👍Grazie, sei bravissimo
NICE!!
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I love that the dude from Blippy is a great bass player.
I think he’s doing the open E then G then to octave then open E to A etc.that’s what it sounds like to me.
In a sense I kinda thumb mute and the tone and not with my fretting hand, but with my thumping hand. I kinda stop it on the string midphrase, but I also have a hair trigger double slap because of it
Nice
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just pounding away with your right hand, like flea does. hammer the strings like there is no tomorrow. and mute with your left ;) so there is no unnecessary noise. that‘s the trick.
Mmk but how do I achieve that nasty tone
High mids, both pickuos on jazz bass and brand new roundwounds gets you pretty much there
I think Flea uses a Modulus bass, which is a Music Man-ish? copy.
Don’t know about tone and junk but he’s barely touching the string and it sounds massive so I can say compression might be part of it.
@@supadupahilton6848Not for this particular song / era, he recorded the Mother’s Milk album using his Jazz-style Spector NS2
@@razzmatazzduckdidnt he play music mans back then?
The last high A came before the last low A. Is that correct?
I didn't know louis ck played bass
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So he is playing the Bass one note at a time ? Who knew😂😂😂
You missed it.
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Ok but can we talk about that snare?
Stop making me think about things in the early morning
Привет! ☺
Back in the day, I had loud amplifiers and ridiculous stage volume, so I had to learn to mute every string that wasn't making an intentional note. In later years, I had to unlearn the muting selectively to let notes ring.
I never noticed because I mute my strings like a normal person 😎
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I might be missing something, but it just looks like he's barely tapping the string. How does it sound so loud?
Low action makes slapping so much easier. You do not need to crank your them on the string. Also putting your volume higher and playing lighter helps as well but mostly very low action can get this done
It's not action making the difference here, its the technique. Hes not tapping the string, hes thumping all the way through it like a pluck.
@@JerryLeeHowell2 yes I forgot to point that out but it's most definitely low action thats making it ring. You cant get a good slap tone without low action. I would say in order of importance like this
1. Low action
2. Technique
3. Volume control ( higher volume, less strength)
yeah, its the mistake we all make, learning to slap on an unamplified bass.
@@chrisliddiard725 why are you talking bad about me, dude?
Isnt that obvious?
Gee thanks for playing at full speed...🤨
We've got you, check out this lesson where Scott breaks it down 👉🏻 th-cam.com/video/WnxLCFUpW-A/w-d-xo.html
I really get bored with slapping. It's not the slapping per se, it's the fact it's mostly octave pulls. Just so dull.
Slapping's just one flavour in the bass world - explore other techniques that light up your groove 🙌🏻🧡🔥
@devinebass Hi Scott. Been playing bass for 40 years. I love slap but I'm just saying that alot of it is generic and unimaginative.
Started to listen alot more to players like Eugene Kostyuk from the band Jinjer. He uses slap but uses it in a way that is more imaginative.
Would be great to see you maybe look into other avenues of bass playing as love your channel but find the constant emphasis on funk a little stale at times especially when there is a mass of other genres that also highlight the fantastic ability of the bass and its uses.
Rock on buddy🤘
Flea only half slaps look up higher ground by Marcus Miller now THATS funky.
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Second note should be muted.
I just realized how similar the halo theme is to this song / bass line
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