Jonas Hellborg - Slap Solo

Jonas Hellborg - Slap Solo

Category:

Music

Tags:

• slap
• slapping
• fretless
• slapring
• pop
• popping
• tap
• tapping
• funk
• funky

[DRGasMoney]

Flea has nothing on this guy...

[chucku00]

Jonas has a trick : he plays forward ! And for people who say it's grooveless I feel sorry for them !

[chungazrevenge]

@DRGasMoney no but Claypool is above all !!!

[opathomas]

Flea owns!

[nanker95]

looks like someone has been watching Mark King videos... and he plays with Cobham... I'm not worthy............

[vetmusician]

@chucku00 YOU understand that and it seems your one of the only ones on youtube!

[munkierunner]

@FlashW22 Jonas hellborg is one of the, if not THE fastest bass player out there, and no thats not all he has. But ya, fastest bass player currently. Has played with at least 2 or 3 of the fastest guitar players (fact) who ever lived. Shawn Lane and Buckethead, and also Mattias Eklhund. and you can throw john mclaughlin in there for good measure.

[munkierunner]

@hbalazs09 I see where you were coming from, and I understand. Music is about expression and its hard to say whose expressions are better because its all art, and enjoy it all right? You can definitely look at it both ways and to me both are correct in their own way.

I suppose there is no real criteria for determining whose better. If there was it would be: pure skill, technical ability, who you play/played with, how you play, speed/precision, improv ability, and expression.

[hbalazs09]

@munkierunner

well that is true. sorry for my comment it isn't true if i think it over

[munkierunner]

@hbalazs09 sure you can, why not? music is like anything else, it has good players, it has amazing players and it has terrible players, so in pure bass skill you can compare them. Jonas is FAR FAR FAR better then Flea EVER could be. I like flea and don't get me wrong he is a great bassist, but Jonas has worked with the best of the best (john mclaughlin, mahavishnu orchestra, buckethead, shawn lane, mattias Eklhund, Jeff Sipe, etc) and Flea has worked with the Chili peppers, who are good.

[hbalazs09]

@FlashW22

Flea is fast, Jonas is fast too, they are both great bassists in their genre. You can't compare Flea with Jonas, it is like comparing apples wich pears.

[chucku00]

@SuperEnigmation Nope, in fact it's Jonas who learned it to Mister Norris ! It's the same kind of rhythmical technique than John Mac Laughlin or Vernon Reid, not the slapping but the way the notes are played a few milliseconds before in comparison of a regular musician not as gifted as Jonas. I'm personally a very bad musician but I have the arrogance to think that I have an ear (or two !) when it comes to exception...