I think Davie504 is actually living in Taiwan right now 
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Hi boys and girls! My name is Nico, I’m Dutch and the last time I touched a bass was 40 years ago. Then being 20-23 years old I played in several popbands. High Energy Rock, VERY VERY LOUD, did more than 70 gigs. Damaged my hearing badly. Tinnitis+++.
Now being a retired house doctor I re-discovered bass playing a few weeks ago after I watched a video of JuliaPlaysGroove playing Dua Lipa’s Don’t start now and then the slapp-it version of the famous Davie504. SLAP-IT! IT’S THE LAW!
Yesterday I bought a beautiful Yamaha TRBX304 (thanks Josh!) and discovered that some skills were still there but that plucking with two fingers is difficult and slapping and popping for me not possible at all. That’s why I joined this course especially to learn to slap the bass. Hoping that this skill will enter my brain and muscle memory. Have fun everyone!
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Welcome to the Forums, @NicoWesterhof . . .
Lots of us here returned to playing bass after a few years off . . . so you’ve got plenty of company.
Good luck with your Yamaha!
Cheers, Joe
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Welcome to @Fahri and @NicoWesterhof.
Nico, I love s,ap, didn’t think I would be very good at it, but @JoshFossgreen took over in mod 13, and I am actually halfway decent slap player now, so there is hope. Enjoy
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Hee Nico! Welkom in ons midden! Waar zit je ongeveer? Ik woon tussen Bodegraven en Woerden.
(that concludes the Dutch lesson for today…)
I see a couple things we have in common – Fourty years ago, I was 22, and our band played high-energy guitar prog, not entirely unlike Rush, we were told. My reward for this is a constant ring at around 8000 Hz, which will stay with me until I die and the battery runs out.
Aaaaand on top of that, yesterday, I scored a TRBX-304 in candy apple red on Marktplaats, which I will collect next Sunday.
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Welcome @NicoWesterhof!
I see a fellow SLAPPER has arrived.
I’m not there yet with slap although I finished the course. I currently revisit the whole course in order to clean up some things with my technique and get used to the different position of the bass. I changed the position to much higher/closer to the chest after reaching the slap module in the course.
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Don’t tell my other best friends here, but based on that alone, you now a part of this rascal’s homie club! Again, welcome.
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Welcome @Fahri and @NicoWesterhof!
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Welcome @NicoWesterhof
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killer video.
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Welcome @NicoWesterhof
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Hé Peter! Ik woon juist onder Emmen.
I’ve got the candy apple red TRXB-304 now some days and I’m very satisfied with it. Only playing around the C-D on the G-string it sounds strange, damped, just a short vibration of the string. The same with your bass?
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As you said, there is hope. Until now it’s impossible for me to get a nice slapping sound. Just a lot of noise. Have to be patient until module 13…
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Sounds like you may need a set up.
If it’s only the one string try raising the bridge, a tiny bit at a time until the buzz goes away.
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Welcome, @NicoWesterhof!
Basses can have what is known as “dead spots”… depending on how annoying they are, you might want to address them at some point (or have someone help you):
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I won’t know until Sunday, but it sounds like you’re hitting a frequency that the neck likes to resonate with. In a dim and distant past, I had a P-bass that had the same phenomenon. We solved the problem by adding some weight to the back of the headstock.
Did you buy it new? Then I’d suggest you bring it back and have the shop take care of it…
Juist onder Frans Vollink! 
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Welcome @Fahri, thanks for sharing the cool video!
Welcome @NicoWesterhof, sorry about your tinnitus! I’ll keep putting in my earplugs…
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Excellent idea. I can’t stress the importance of that enough.
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I don’t think this is a setup issue… it sounds like a “dead spot”, which is what happens if playing a note hits the resonance frequency of the neck, the resonation of which then cancels out the string vibration.
Edit: I just spotted that @joergkutter addressed this issue a couple posts above!
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How can that be confirmed? Can you “mute” the resonance of the neck by gripping it firmly (or having someone else do it while you fret)? Or is it too strong for that?
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