List of slap bass players (electric bass)

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While the percussive bass guitar slapping style is often associated with funk and its derivative forms, such as funk rock (e.g., Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea), slapping is also used in other styles. Slapping is used in styles such as pop (e.g., Mark King of Level 42) latin, fusion (e.g., Stanley Clarke with Return to Forever), and in the 2000s, nu metal (Fieldy from Korn).

Slapping is a percussive playing technique in which player hits the string with the thumb of the strumming hand near the base of the guitar's neck, often combined with snapping the strings usually with the index or middle finger of the same hand, (the latter more specifically called "popping", i.e. "slapping and popping").

Notable performers include:

Some songs with prominent bass playing using the slapping technique: