194 - SLAP BASS?! Don’t make me SLAP. Why you MUST (Part 1)

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Slap bass is the ultimate in-joke of bassists everywhere. But it’s also an amazing rhythmic tool that can be found in everything from Flea’s thumps to the sublime grooves of Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten. In the first of a two part special, we trace the course of its Marmite appeal and pick our top 3 slap bass players that you need to hear!

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0:00.0	Can you feel it coming?
0:03.8	Like drifting around the turn?
0:05.9	Dude, just dodge Charger.
0:07.7	Dodge it trappid from 2003?
0:10.4	Ha!
0:10.9	What's up?
0:11.5	And welcome to another episode of the SBL podcast, Scott and Ian show.
0:15.9	Let's go!
0:17.4	I feel like I'm timing it a little bit better each and every time.
0:26.4	Getting more confident on the let's go working on it, you know, working on it.
0:27.2	Work in progress.
0:28.5	Are we all work in progress?
0:31.0	Hi, my name is Ian Martin Allison.
0:34.6	I'm half of the team of the Scott and Ian show.
0:35.7	Scott Devine is the other half.
0:37.3	We do this podcast every week. I'm doing some intros, talking to you about the episode and talking to too, just a little bit about what we do at SBL. But on today's episode, it is all about slap. And in the beginning of the episode, Scott's like you said slap of the base. And I feel like I didn't, but I just went with it because, hey, you know what I mean?
0:55.1	He's the boss.
0:56.0	You know what I'm saying?
0:57.1	Scott Devine is the boss, but look, don't say slap of the base to me. You say slap at the base, I slap at your face. It's not true. I don't condone violence. I'll never slap your face. But you say slap of the base to me and I go, huh, I like, I go, huh, uh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do. Yeah, that's what we do. We slap the base. But hey, you know what? Deep down, I really love slapping the base. I also love Paul Rudd. I love that movie. Is that I love you, man? I love that movie. And I love slapping the bass. Dude, it's incredible. It's one of the
1:29.3	coolest things you can do. Guess what? You can't slap a viola. No. You can't slap a piano.
1:37.0	You know, somebody's going to be like, no, you can open the lid and you can, don't, don't give me that.
1:41.2	Don't give me that. Yeah, you can slap a little guitar, but you're not slapping the drums, right?
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