a rock or jazz style of playing the electric or double bass in which the strings are plucked and released so as to vibrate sharply against the fretboard or fingerboard
Examples of 'slap bass' in a sentence
slap bass
An atmospheric disco floor-filler so infectious even its slap-bass sounds cool.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Sonically, slap bass, synth pads and processed hand-claps locate the song firmly in the 1980s.