158 - The Mount Rushmore of SLAP Bass

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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There are so many cool slap bass players out there, but who are the truly great ones? In this video, we round up some of the best slap bassists to have laid down stone cold grooves and mesmerizing double and triple-slap technique on some of music's biggest and best loved tracks. In this episode: Who invented slap bass?What's the best ever slap bass song?Why Flea's slap style is a great place to start.How Marcus Miller carved his name into slap bass history.Who has the weirdest slap sound?And ...

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0:00.0	Dude, show me the neck pickup.
0:02.1	Just the neck pickup on that bass.
0:03.8	Just the neck pickup with the slap.
0:05.4	Hit me with the slap and the neck pickup.
0:07.2	Ooh.
0:12.2	And what about both pickups on?
0:20.1	Oh, it's completely different, isn't it?
0:24.3	Yeah, totally different.
0:25.7	What are you going for?
0:27.7	That's both.
0:28.9	And then...
0:29.7	I don't know.
0:32.9	It's so cool.
0:37.8	It's that, isn't it?
0:42.5	I don't know.
0:43.4	Like, if you're on a gig, where are you going?
0:45.7	And it's like, it's slapped up.
0:48.0	I know this doesn't happen.
0:49.1	But just imagine it did.
0:50.5	Imagine you're on the gig.
0:52.1	Like a massive hand comes down from above, like this.
0:57.4	Right. And it points, and on the finger, it just says, slap time. You look down at your base.
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