I have a problem with this for a whole different reason. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. For this reason I grew up with all of the original funk players and thumping was part of bass playing. You had to be able to play both fingerstyle and thump to be a decent player. The problem I have now is that the majority of the guys that are on KZitem are in their 40s or younger and either don't know or don't appreciate the music that they didn't grow up on. As an educator you need to be educated on those that preceded you in order to be effective as to where things came from. If not, you will most likely give out some erroneous information or leave out people that actually started doing things and were the true OGs of what is now done. Although I love Victor (my favorite), Marcus, and some of the other well known bassists that everybody knows, their names are thrown around just because the younger bassists are ignorant as to anybody else that were the true innovators of an earlier era. Without those innovators there would be no "bass heroes" whose names everybody regurgitates. It's also sad that many of those earlier bassists have either died without their due credit or are still alive and not given their due while they are still with us. Some are well known but what about Mark Adams, Nathaniel Phillips, Abe Laboriel, Don Taylor, Dexter Redding, and a host of others. Please understand that thumping is a tool in an arsenal of becoming versatile just like tapping, strumming, or hand positioning to create different textures and sounds. Please stop treating it like it is something that you have to either love or hate. Just treat the bass like any other instrument that does not have to go through constant scrutiny just because there are various techniques that can be used.
@dinoduprey6676
11 ай бұрын
Hi Guys. Mark Adams from Slave, Louis Thunder Thumbs Johnson, Stanley Clarke.. were my inspiration to start slapping the bass.
@atheistasylum
11 ай бұрын
I’ve been waiting a long time to hear someone bring up this topic. Slapping is way overdone. Like many things these days, a fad that wouldn’t go away. You want your instrument to like a proper bass, not an electrified rubber band. 👍🏿
@christianhenry4173
11 ай бұрын
Shredding on guitar is overdone too.
@noobfretter
11 ай бұрын
@@christianhenry4173 Yes, if you're shredding on the wrong song. But I mean, I could say that bass players should only play the root notes and anything beyond that is "overdone" and that's gonna be just another person's opinion.
@kgar5String
11 ай бұрын
When it’s not your style is irritating
@clutch236
9 ай бұрын
"Thumpin' & Pluckin'" is a (tool). You use that tool to "enhance" whatever music that you're playing. Use the technique sparingly "as needed", that way you can maintain your love for it, without getting tired of it.....HOWEVER, on your own time (privately), you can go crazy with it and have fun relaxing with it! 🎸
@tjsmith3741
11 ай бұрын
Yes. Overrated. While I dig the rhythmic aspect, It just tends to become over relied upon.
@moed740
11 ай бұрын
Tell them Daric it's called THUMPING and I Don't like the name slap bass either Real OG's call it THUMPING...
@kennycrockett8202
11 ай бұрын
Agree, I thump n pop, pluck my bass
@Generalbas1972
11 ай бұрын
Nobody wants to hear a bassplayer play slap bass on the low E-string for very long - Unless your name is Mark King - Qoute Stuart Hamm
@yutani2225
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely right. Just listen to the song "The Prusuit of Accidents". A benchmark of variable playing even back then.
@Generalbas1972
10 ай бұрын
@@yutani2225 He was also first in putting Slap Bass into mainsstream pop songs like Something About You, Lessons In Love and Running In The Family
@ImpulseGenerator
11 ай бұрын
I believe it is a fantastic style that is still very much in development. It does mess with the bass's traditional function a bit. But who cares? The bass doesn't have to be one thing.
@lyanjye
11 ай бұрын
This is an insignificant topic. Why? Because in any of the arts/style, creativity is paramount. Creativity is inevitable. Creativity is as natural as breathing. Creativity is evolution. Now, whether one excepts the creativity/change, or not, is up to the individual. But it should have absolutely nothing to do with the actual creative change with the particular art/style. I saw an interview with Francisco Centeno, bass player for Ashford & Simpson. He said that Ashford & Simpson, gave him the latitude and freedom to create, as a bass player, the basslines for their music. An incredible technique, musicianship, and sound was produced(Don't Cost You Nothing). Lastly, a musician is driven by the music. The music guides you. Again, Charles Walter Rainey said, in the song Peg, they didn't want him to "slap." He turned so they couldn't see him. He slapped. And guest what, they left it in.
@razzo2538
11 ай бұрын
A couple people do it well, but generally it's obnoxious and irritating.
@williamrobinson1973
10 ай бұрын
If you can't be funky without slapping then you're not truly a funky player IMO.
@Yash42189
11 ай бұрын
i dont like the slap style. people like wooten and marcus miller, i dont care for their music.
@shmu_el
11 ай бұрын
If there's an idea behind it it's a great tool. When it becomes a competition how fast can I hit the string regardless of how pointless it sounds - that's where you lose me...
@kennycrockett8202
11 ай бұрын
I don't use the term slap bass, it's thumping, poppin, pluckin , and to call the bass masters Larry Graham, Louis Johnson, Mark Adams, Bootsy , Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten and many other musicians who thump n pop the bass; that they slap the bass is an insult and mocking the Funk Music genre, I'm making my stand against that slap mess, to me u don't know Funk if u call the bass playing thump ; slap, don't say u know Funk
@BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
11 ай бұрын
I can't Thump/Thumb/Slap, I really tried and failed 😁 I love it when Marcus Miller, Mark King are doing it, very melodic lines. 👌🏿
@williamrobinson1973
10 ай бұрын
I do it for me..and if I'm playing with others and the song could use it..then it's in there. I never was overtaken or lost my mind over it. Or became a Claypool, Wooten, Flea clone. As a bass player, I've taken the job of some of those people. And their reaction was literally relief. It does not go into every song people. I was handed a Thundercat CD in 2011 and expected a slap bass showcase..needless to say it wasn't and the rest is history.
@greedygringoprospecting6941
10 ай бұрын
cant slap at all
@paulsmith7424
11 ай бұрын
slap bass was an upright style and technique in the 40's. slap bass on the electric started with Larry Graham trying to add drum to playing with his mom on organ .
@bassclefconnoisseur
11 ай бұрын
OMGosh Darric has a podcast?! I'm down for the next!!
@yutani2225
11 ай бұрын
To answer the question directly: It was the slap bass technique that got me interested in the electric bass in the first place. I always wanted to be the cool guitarist. And for me, the bass was always the residual ramp for bad guitarists that I associated with boring low single notes. Then I saw Mark King at a big music fair demonstrating his slap bass technique while chewing gum on a Status S2 Classic (a bass from another world for me back then). With an ease and nonchalance that almost shocked me. Never before had I suspected that you could play like that on a bass. Harmonies and percussive foundation in one. Like a mix of notes and drums. That's what made me stick with the electric bass in the first place. Btw. I've never seen another bass player who can sing as well and play as perfectly as Mark King.
@BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
11 ай бұрын
Mark King is a Beast 🔥 I play exclusively play Status Graphite S2 Classic 5 Strings Headless Basses, although I just can't Slap Bass 😁
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