Editing Double bass (section)

===Slap-style bass===
Slap-style bass is sometimes used in bluegrass bass playing. When bluegrass bass players slap the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard or hit the strings against the fingerboard, it adds the high-pitched percussive "clack" or "slap" sound to the low-pitched bass notes, sounding much like the clacks of a tap dancer. Slapping is a subject of minor controversy in the bluegrass scene. Even slapping experts such as [[Mike Bub]] say, "Don't slap on every gig", or in songs where it is not appropriate. As well, bluegrass bassists who play slap-style on live shows often slap less on records. Bub and his mentor [[Jerry McCoury]] rarely do slap bass on recordings. While bassists such as Jack Cook slap bass on the occasional faster "Clinch Mountain Boys song", bassists such as Gene Libbea, [[Missy Raines]], Jenny Keel, and [[Barry Bales]] [rarely] slap bass.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibluegrass.com/vi_posting3.CFM?p__i=1004&p__r=&p__a=bass|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030511071642/http://www.ibluegrass.com/vi_posting3.CFM?p__i=1004&p__r=&p__a=bass|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 May 2003|title=Bluegrass Music: iBluegrass.com, Your #1 Source for Bluegrass|date=11 May 2003}}</ref>

Bluegrass bassist Mark Schatz, who teaches slap bass in his ''Intermediate Bluegrass Bass'' DVD acknowledges that slap bass "...has not been stylistically very predominant in the music I have recorded". He notes that "Even in traditional bluegrass slap bass only appears sporadically and most of what I've done has been on the more contemporary side of that (Tony Rice, Tim O'Brien)." Schatz states that he would be "...&nbsp;more likely to use it [slap] in a live situation than on a recording—for a solo or to punctuate a particular place in a song or tune where I wouldn't be obliterating someone's solo".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockabillybass.com/markschatz.htm |title=Learn How to Play Bass Guitar With Free Online Lessons |publisher=Rockabillybass.com |date=2015-04-10 |access-date=2015-12-23}}</ref> Another bluegrass method, ''Learn to Play Bluegrass Bass'', by Earl Gately, also teaches bluegrass slap bass technique. German bassist Didi Beck plays rapid triplet slaps, as demonstrated in this video.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5f9pTVpdsU | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/d5f9pTVpdsU| archive-date=2021-10-30|title=The Art of Slap Bass Presents DIDI BECK |via=YouTube |date=2010-03-31 |access-date=2015-12-23}}{{cbignore}}</ref> <!-- Listen to 1:37 on this video...it is truly humbling...he is a master of slap bass!!!! -->