slapping higher ground. Kinda.

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Uploaded by: emperor-limitless

Upload date: 1/11/2026

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so for months I've been trying to understand how does slapping on the bass work, checked a lot of tutorials and asked people, but things never made sense to me, yesterday decided to go to a music store nearby, and the guitarist employee there knows how to slap, I asked him how? He showed me and I can't believe how obvious it was.
my favorite slap bassline is higher ground by the red chilly peppers, so I attempted playing it, since I'm so happy and fuzzy inside, I decided to annoy yall with that news. Lets... Kinda ignore how dead the tone is ok? LOL.

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  • emperor-limitless - 01/11/2026

    if anyone's curious about the song it's this one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3mRasO5bvo

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    the first 10 or so seconds of it. It's on a bass, and it uses a technique called slap, which a specific style of playing that makes a procussive drum like sound.

  • vrivri - 01/11/2026

    My teacher is addicted to this technique.

    • emperor-limitless - 01/11/2026

      I don't blame them honestly, it's so incredibly fun and satisfying to play, even on a cheap low quality bass, slap is awesome.

  • Shehryar - 01/12/2026

    please try describing this to a guitarist. Me

    • emperor-limitless - 01/13/2026

      it won't work on a guitar that well, but here's how it usually goes.
      slap uses 2 techniques actually, slap, and pop, slap is usually on the lower strings, and slap uses the thumb, the idea is, you rotate your rist and let your thumb, the joint/nuckle, slam into the string you want, and the angle needs to be downwards, as in, your slamming the string into the bass's body/neck, it needs to slam into the fretboard for that chunky sound. And you need to lift your finger instantly after hitting if you don't want to choke out the sound. Also, don't try to move your thumb, your thumb needs to be relaxed, the rotation all comes from the rist, if you move your thumb, it'll be awkward and you might choke it out early.
      pop is usually you play the same note but an octaive, on a higher string, for example, if I slapped the e string open 2 times, I pop the second fret of the d, which is also an e octaive, the technique of pop is to basically hook your index finger under the string, and pull it slightly up and sideways and instantly release it, it'll have that metallic clank.