Tongue Slaps
Sun, 04/11/2010 - 09:44
I'm working on Cool Blue and (maybe overkill on detail) had the same question come up in my mind as when I was on No Sweat. Do you go with a tongue slap on each note -even in triplets (3-4-5)?? Or do you use the TS for emphasis only on certain notes? When a song is this tempo and the notes are quarter or triplet, it's slow enough to use them almost everywhere but is that overkill and ends up detracting from the emphasis that TS can give you. Is there some formula or just "what feels right". (As I ask, I realize just how "rookie" this sounds)
You've got it... it's up to the player. In general, for a song of this tempo, you would slap the first note of the triplet (downbeat) and slide for the other two. Use the slap for where it sounds good... if a passage is too fast trying to use slaps won't make sense... use your judgement.