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Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: rustyg61 on October 08, 2014, 01:44:59 PM

Check out this slap solo on a 5 string that is strung upside down, so the B string is on the bottom of the neck & the G is on top. Despite the fact that his thumb should naturally be slapping the top B or E string & plucking the bottom G string, he manages to turn his technique upside down & slap the bottom string then jump up to the top string to pluck!
 
http://youtu.be/ifDLszTS9A4 (http://youtu.be/ifDLszTS9A4)

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: pauldo on October 08, 2014, 01:57:24 PM

Dang!
Larry Williams has some mad skills!
 
:-D

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: rustyg61 on October 08, 2014, 03:38:27 PM

Yes he does! I never could understand how left handed players can play with their instruments strung upside down, but I guess if that is the way they learned it feels natural to them.

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: hieronymous on October 08, 2014, 03:45:02 PM

I think he's doing the double-thump technique - using his thumb kind of like a pick - impressive, especially the quick swats at the G string!

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: pauldo on October 08, 2014, 06:33:58 PM

Ala Victor Wooten

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: edwin on October 12, 2014, 07:48:41 PM

I just showed this to Xander and he said the bass player is a wild minimac! (I told Xander he was a wild maniac and he declared I am a wild minimac!).

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: rustyg61 on October 12, 2014, 09:16:21 PM

Too cute! Minimac, is that what Steve Jobs had in mind when he created the iPhone?

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: richbass939 on October 18, 2014, 09:57:52 AM

Shuck dern.  Watching that video was ten minutes well spent.  Thanks for posting it.
Rich

Title: Amazing Upside Down Slap Solo
Post by: rustyg61 on October 18, 2014, 04:50:29 PM

Glad you liked it Rich!