Big coincidence, lol.
New member first post asking about slapping at the same time new member first post answer the post with his channel about slapping.
The odds is just astronomical on this small forum both of you should go get lotto tickets.
Again welcome to the forum and hit me up for the tab.
Guys I got the slap down. I’m so stoked about this.
Great work!
I see you already figured it out - great job! - but thought I’d share this somewhat silly video I made about which muscles you’re using when you slap:
That’s awesome, welcome to the “slappa da bass” community 
I’m still new to slap, but now generally find slapping the E string with fretting up to about 5th or 6th fret fairly easy. Beyond that, the sound starts dying a bit so need more practice. I also find the other strings more difficult as it’s easier to hit the wrong string or at least catch part of another string. It does start to get easier and getting the slap/pop going is quite satisfying.
I practiced slapping the table when I first started trying. If you slappa da table and your thumb doesn’t immediately come back up, it tends to hurt, so you know if you’re doing it right when it doesn’t hurt. Probably not the best method, but it worked for me 
@kristine You (to borrow the famous line from the Martian) Science the sh!t out of this, I love it, big fan Huge fan!
Aw, why thank you! Yes, yes I did science the sh*t of it lol!
I love it
I’ll have to try it out. I’m still having trouble. Should I get some new strings? My husband bought my bass for me in August. Still has the original strings on. I tend to get frustrated when I’m slapping an end up slapping to hard. And so I put my bass up and walk away other wise if be there all day.
Not sure about new strings. I’ve got a Squire Jazz from about 9 years ago and it still has original strings. It hasn’t been played a massive amount but it’s been left out a bit. It still slaps ok.
Don’t worry about strings, with older strings you just wont have that zing, which you can partially recover by lossening them up, and poping them hard against fretboard (pop them on every part of their length). So what it does is gets rid of gunk between wounding. Then you just wipe the strings, you will hear the difference.
As I probably said before, beware of action cause high action is what makes slaping hard.
Lower the action, less power you need for slap.
If muscle memory/technique is the issue, dont worry, it will come with time, just keep doing it.
I have watched every tutorial video on the internet and I still can’t manage to get any decent tone from my slap. Obviously I am the problem here, for whatever reason I just can’t seem to make it sound even passable. There’s plenty to play that doesn’t involve slap but I love the tone so much, I wish I could figure it out. Considering paying someone to teach me at some point so for now I have given up on slap
Thabk you I’m going to try that today an see.what a difference it makes.
Slapping is a bit different because in general you’d want a snappy clean tone so round wound would be the best choice, best stainless or coated string I’d revise the Ernie Ball Slinky or super slinky as well as Fender 45.
Non slap applications is different some want them old and grimy for a nice warm tone, ABBA bassist is known to “loan” his new basses out to a friends for a few years to “break in” the strings. I wish I’m not germaphobe OCD, lol.
