Slaps tented or flat - or maybe a misunderstanding
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:56 am
My little epiphany re: slaps was when I started doing them with a flat hand.
A lot of slap explanation talks about using a tented hand or a cupped hand.
Mine didn't work well until I read about using a flat hand and visualizing playing
though the skin [ie: as if you were trying to hit with your finger tips below the skin] and grabbing it
I was watching a guy on youtube tonight who was espousing the tented version, but when I watched closer he was actually
playing with a flat hand ... the tenting part was really the result after the fact not the technique from the outset
So you go in with a flat hand ... smack through the skin ... and grab ... the result is a 'tented hand'
It's the result of the technique and not the actual technique itself.
When I try to 'tent/cup' my hand before playing a slap it hurts! When I play flat handed and the tent
comes after ... its effortless, loud, crisp and painless
A lot of slap explanation talks about using a tented hand or a cupped hand.
Mine didn't work well until I read about using a flat hand and visualizing playing
though the skin [ie: as if you were trying to hit with your finger tips below the skin] and grabbing it
I was watching a guy on youtube tonight who was espousing the tented version, but when I watched closer he was actually
playing with a flat hand ... the tenting part was really the result after the fact not the technique from the outset
So you go in with a flat hand ... smack through the skin ... and grab ... the result is a 'tented hand'
It's the result of the technique and not the actual technique itself.
When I try to 'tent/cup' my hand before playing a slap it hurts! When I play flat handed and the tent
comes after ... its effortless, loud, crisp and painless