esoteric shit that helps your slap technique

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July 4, 2009 at 12:25 pm #211

thomas
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would like to know of any tips you find make you a better slapper or improve your timing.
im finding lately that learning songs that are really not suited for slap and trying to make it work are really helping out- like anything without a strong backbeat or anything synth-heavy or drum machine based is really a task..i spent half the day playing along to devo, old cure, interpol and killing joke it really seemed to drive a few points home for me..

July 4, 2009 at 3:13 pm #212

Dan Enriquez
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I’ve been playing to early Metallica and Iron Maiden lately. Lots of fun! Rockabilly is way too easy. Been doing alot of muted notes too. I did them on that last vid I uploaded on youtube.

July 4, 2009 at 5:30 pm #215

mike sirman
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[b]Memphisevil wrote:[/b]
[quote]I’ve been playing to early Metallica and Iron Maiden lately. Lots of fun! Rockabilly is way too easy. Been doing alot of muted notes too. I did them on that last vid I uploaded on youtube.[/quote]

Thats awesome, I learnt a few maiden riffs now just to mess around with on upright, the gallopy riffs are so fun to get a good slap rythm going with.

July 4, 2009 at 7:16 pm #242

Kevin Stewart
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I’ve been working on Latin beats and rhythms lately. Also been messing around with rocksteady/reggae rhythms too for slapping. (and not just the notes… filling in the rhythms with slaps so that someone can actually dance to it and groove)

I used to play to old Cure songs too! haha Speak My Language and Love Cats are great songs for basic slapping. I even learned a lot of Matt Feeman’s basslines from the Operation Ivy recordings…shit, I’ve even learned some old Disco and Duran Duran.

Dan’s idea is great too! Old Metallica and Maiden definitely has some great bass riffs that you can lay into!

July 4, 2009 at 8:39 pm #255

Samuli Samuelsson
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Hi.

I sing, that’ll keep me in track. Helps with staying in tune too. Up to a point ;).

Also makes it easier to people to yell “STOP PLAYING THAT …”

As for the material, Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks kept me sane while practising for the recent one gig project. My first with a DB no less.

Regards
Sam

July 9, 2009 at 8:48 am #296

thomas
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hell yeah!- all of thee above- killing an arab is challenging as hell to slap to- and getting the disco octave stuff down without the thumb drives me fucking nuts!

July 25, 2009 at 9:40 pm #478

Geoff Firebaugh
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[b]Memphisevil wrote:[/b]
[quote]I’ve been playing to early Metallica and Iron Maiden lately. Lots of fun! Rockabilly is way too easy. Been doing alot of muted notes too. I did them on that last vid I uploaded on youtube.[/quote]

+1 Work out the intro to ‘puppets’. it’s a slaptastic motherfucker to play in time.

July 27, 2009 at 8:39 am #481

mike sirman
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[b]Geoff Firebaugh wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Memphisevil wrote:[/b]
[quote]I’ve been playing to early Metallica and Iron Maiden lately. Lots of fun! Rockabilly is way too easy. Been doing alot of muted notes too. I did them on that last vid I uploaded on youtube.[/quote]

+1 Work out the intro to ‘puppets’. it’s a slaptastic motherfucker to play in time.[/quote]

Any chance you have a video playing that or anything? would be cool to see how you play it.

August 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm #512

Ian Sterling
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I’ve been working on playing along with Municipal Waste hahaha. It actually sounds pretty good once the rythm is down, which is a mess of triple and single slaps. Thrashabilly here we come.

August 5, 2009 at 5:16 pm #513

mike sirman
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[b]ponyboy6669 wrote:[/b]
[quote]I’ve been working on playing along with Municipal Waste hahaha. It actually sounds pretty good once the rythm is down, which is a mess of triple and single slaps. Thrashabilly here we come.[/quote]

Nice, UK Subs are pretty fun to slap to as well, the riff from warhead has been one of my warmup riffs for a while now.

August 6, 2009 at 12:06 am #521

Ian Sterling
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nice, that’s a fun lil bass line. i like playing along to the bruisers, like… intimidation is pretty cool to slap to.

August 6, 2009 at 12:44 am #523

mike sirman
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[b]ponyboy6669 wrote:[/b]
[quote]nice, that’s a fun lil bass line. i like playing along to the bruisers, like… intimidation is pretty cool to slap to.[/quote]

You know I never actually thought of that one on upright, I always play it jamming electric, same with some gg covers. Ill have to try that one out. Bloodshed would be fun too. or some agent orange. Thumbs up for punkabilly

August 6, 2009 at 12:52 am #524

mike sirman
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oh yeah and walking dead by anti seen is one of the best riffs to play as well as a lot of GG songs.

August 7, 2009 at 10:49 am #538

Ian Sterling
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deathrider by anthrax. try it.

August 10, 2009 at 11:02 am #546

NM Art
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[b]dalyplanet70 wrote:[/b]
[quote]hell yeah!- all of thee above- killing an arab is challenging as hell to slap to- and getting the disco octave stuff down without the thumb drives me fucking nuts![/quote]
+1 Haven’t worked out a clean sounding disco slap yet.

Done the Cure thing. Working on Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”, totally works — albeit not note for note, just capturing the essence. Another song that just popped in my head one day was Heart’s “Barracuda” — easy peasy.
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