New swedish member - Art of Slap Bass

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July 8, 2009 at 1:52 pm #285

Mattias Isaksen
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My name is Mattias and I’m a 28 years old from Sweden. Been playing guitar on and off for ~15 years and upright bass for about a year. I play psychobilly and rockabilly. I recently started my string journey and have so far tried steels, weedwackers and most recently silverslaps.

Besides playing and listening to music I ride an old kicker 1972 Harley and a 1970 Cadillac. I try to airbrush and pinstripe a little now and again and plan on striping my bass.

The bass is the cheapest one from thomann.de that my girlfriend bought me for my birthday after six months of talking about getting a bass.

/Inferno

July 8, 2009 at 9:49 pm #287

mike sirman
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Welcome to the board. Sounds like your a bit ahead of me on the string journey. Got some of the superior wackers on the way but from what I have been hearing I think silver slaps will be the next set I try.

July 8, 2009 at 11:34 pm #289

Mattias Isaksen
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Well thank you.

I don’t really like the silverslaps for me anyways. They are kinda stiff so I have to lower the strings to the point where I smack the fingers into the fingerboard to get a decent slapsound. Everyone say they are really low tension but I liked the wackers more for playability but the silverslaps kicks their ass tonewise. I’m gonna play them for a while and see if I can get used to them as the E and A wackers are pretty useless. No point in having a 4 string bass where you only use 2 strings.

Sorry for the rant 🙂

/Inferno

July 9, 2009 at 12:59 am #291

Carlos Cordero
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I found that the Silver Slaps needed to be played in for a while. Tension loosened up quite a bit after playing them for a couple of weeks. Just my 2 cents!

July 9, 2009 at 1:06 am #292

mike sirman
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Yeah I hear silverslaps are great once worked in, you may want to give them some time if you havent already.

Apparently the E wacker on the set of superior wackers is a lot better than most. Not sure what type of wackers you tried or if they were self made but you may want to check into them, they are cheap and everyone seems to be saying really good things about them.

If your not on rockabillybass.com you can check the string forum there and there is a big thread about them and what people think about them and compare them to. I believe they come as a 5 string set as well so you can bump them even if you wanted to.

July 9, 2009 at 2:33 am #294

Mattias Isaksen
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Yeah as I said I’ll give them another go. Haven’t played them more than a couple of hours since my fingers get sore from banging into the fingerboard. I raised the action a bit so it’s comfortable to play but then I can’t get a good slap going. It will be fun to see how much they will loosen up in a couple of weeks. I heard Ville from Mad Sin used them and he slaps like they are made of rubber 🙂

I had FMI Pro weedwackers and the E is supposedly alot better than normal weedwackers but I still think it sucks. Let me know when you get your superiors as I’d like to hear a review from another newbie.

/Inferno

July 11, 2009 at 10:43 am #301

Dan Enriquez
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Glad to meet you! Your gf sounds like a keeper! 🙂

July 11, 2009 at 2:40 pm #313

Mattias Isaksen
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Thanks Memphisevil. I’ve been watching your videos on youtube and am currently trying to learn the dragtriplet from you. Hope to see more of you on youtube in the future.

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July 15, 2009 at 10:00 am #350

Dan Enriquez
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Howdy! Supernils is where it’s at.

July 16, 2009 at 1:47 am #352

Carlos Cordero
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+1 on the nils!!!!!!

July 16, 2009 at 3:22 am #355

Patrik Backlund
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Hallo! 🙂

July 21, 2009 at 11:02 am #452

Dan Enriquez
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Thanks! More to come! My life is hectic right now.

July 22, 2009 at 10:19 am #457

Robin
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Hey”

September 5, 2009 at 12:59 am #585

Hiwatt
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Cheers to you Mattias. Where do you live in Sweden ? Gnesta ?… 😉

September 18, 2009 at 2:41 pm #597

Mattias Isaksen
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No not really. I live about 620 miles north of Stockholm. In a small town outside of Luleå. It’s cold and dark here so theres nothing to do except stay inside and slap the bass 🙂

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