SLAP

Low

With the low it is the musician Larry Graham which invented this technique towards the end of the Années 1960. This technique is reserved for the right hand of the musician - for a droitier. It consists in making use of the inch “to strike” the cord S of the low . Then the " is added; popping" , which is the action to draw on the acuter cords in order to do them claquer on the handle.

Then it is necessary to combine these two movements of bases with other techniques, like the died notes, the Hammer one and Sweater-off, the slides and well of others still. It is of course possible to mix the techniques: slap, play with the fingers, Tapping.

Finally of percussives novel methods appeared, as the inch return ticket (technical elaborate at the base by Dominique di piazza), where the inch acts like a Médiator, associated with percussifs effects, the slap becomes an extremely complex and varied technique.

Many of other bass players were useful about it and make use of it, of course. For example, Victor Wooten which reaches the extremes by combining this technique with others, inspired by Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Alain Charon… One of the bass players currently most admired, Marcus Miller, uses this technique and even made its speciality of it.

It is about a rather complex technique, requiring several months at several years of training and drive. Thanks to the slap, it is the low one which gives the Rythme, the battery according to or supplementing this line.

Flute

On the Flute, it is a strong attack of the language, without sending air after (without its).

Saxophone and clarinet

With the Saxophone or the Clarinet, this technique consists in making claquer the Anche against the nozzle: the language forms a suction cup under the sheer, moves away it from the table of the nozzle, then claquer against the latter leaves it to produce this characteristic percussif sound.

The slap is particularly effective and spectacular in the serious register and on the serious instruments of the family, but it can be also practiced on the acutest instruments (sopranissimo…).

There are several alternatives: slap stamped, dry, aspired, opened, doubles…

Initially used in the Jazz and the light comedy like comic effect, it was spread little by little in many musical styles. The majority of the saxophonists practitioner the contemporary repertory use and control this technique. Among the type-setters who make a frequent use of it: François Pink, Christian Lauba, Marie-Helene Baker, Pierre-Adrien Charpy, Louis Sclavis… but one finds of them examples at Jacques Ibert or Edison Denisov, inter alia.

String instruments rubbed

On the Violin, the viola, the Violoncelle… the slap is called Pizz Bartók or Pizz in Bartók , in honor with the Compositeur Béla Bartók. For that, instead of drawing the cord on side as at the time of a Pizzicato, one grips it by more strongly raising it, and with the vertical, by releasing it violently. This one strikes the key then, and produces at the same time the note and the percussif sound.

Sometimes one notes this type of play in all letters, often with a sign:

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