List of slap bass players (electric bass)

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:

* Miyavi
* Tony Oppenheim
* Nathan East (Eric Clapton, Genesis, Fourplay)
* Bernard Edwards (Chic, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Power Station)
* Foreigner ("Urgent")
* Nick Fyffe (Jamiroquai), (David Jordan)
* Meshell Ndegeocello
* Guy Pratt (The Orb, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour)
* Marshall Grant (Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three)
* Fieldy (Korn)
* Terry Lewis (The Time)
* Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
* Mike DeMasi (Solo Artist)
* Rhonda Smith (Formerly of New Power Generation)
* Peter Martin aka Sketch (Linx)
* Leigh Gorman (Bow Wow Wow)
* Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Prince)
* Lex Feltham (Frenzal Rhomb)
* Louis Johnson (The Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson)
* Stuart Zender (Formerly in Jamiroquai)
* Stanley Clarke (solo artist, Return to Forever, Chick Corea)

* Marcus Miller (solo artist, Miles Davis, David Sanborn, Luther Vandross)
* Doug Wimbish (Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Living Colour, Mick Jagger)
* George Anderson (Shakatak)
* Les Claypool (solo artist, Primus)
* Mike Gordon (Phish)
* Jeremy Kerr (A Certain Ratio)
* Ryan Martinie (Mudvayne)
* Dirk Lance (Formerly in Incubus)
* Mark King (Level 42)
* John Norwood Fisher (Fishbone)
* Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo)
* Tony Kanal (No Doubt)
* P-Nut (311)
* Bootsy Collins (solo artist, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Funkadelic, Parliament, Praxis)
* Victor Wooten (solo artist, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones)
* Wesley Hopkins (solo artist, Global shell)
* Roger Solari (solo artist, Frank Solari, Billy Cobham)
* Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn's Trio-convulsant, David Krakauer)
* Stu Hamm (solo artist, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and others)
* Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse Band and others)
* Robert Trujillo (Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica)
* Rayna Foss-Rose (Coal Chamber)

Some songs with prominent bass playing using the slapping technique:
* Korn - Got The Life (bass by Fieldy on Follow The Leader)
* Mudvayne - Dig (Bass by Ryan Martinie on L.D. 50)
* Graham Central Station - Hair (bass by Larry Graham on the 1973 'Graham Central Station' album)
* Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor (bass by Louis Johnson on the 1979 'Off the Wall' album)
*Prince - (Lets Work) (Uptown Album)
* CHIC - Good Times (bass by Bernard Edwards)
* Diana (Diana Ross Solo Album) (bass by Bernard Edwards)
* Madonna (Like a Virgin 1985) (bass by Bernard Edwards)
* Jamiroquai - Alright (bass by Stuart Zender on the 1996 'Travelling Without Moving' album)
* King Crimson - Sleepless (bass by Tony Levin on the 1984 Three of a Perfect Pair album)
* 311 - What Was I Thinking (bass by P-Nut on the 1997 'Transistor' album)
* The Brothers Johnson - Stomp! (bass solo by Louis Johnson on the 1980 'Light Up the Night' album)
* Stanley Clarke - Silly Putty (bass by Stanley Clarke on the 1975 'Journey to Love' album)
* Phish - Weekapaug Groove (bass by Mike Gordon on the 1999 live album 'Hampton Comes Alive')
* Incubus - Certain Shade of green ,Speak Free (bass by Dirk Lance on the 1995 'Fungus Amongus' album)
* Sugarhill Gang - Funk Box (bass by Doug Wimbish on the 1982 '8th Wonder' album)
* Level 42 - Love Games (bass by Mark King on the 1981 "Level 42" album)
* David Sanborn - Run for Cover (bass by Marcus Miller on the 1981 'Voyeur' album)
* Fishbone - Bonin' in the Boneyard (bass by John Norwood Fisher on the 1988 'Truth and Soul' album)
* No Doubt - BND (bass by Tony Kanal on the 1992 'No Doubt' album)
* Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get Up and Jump, Higher Ground (bass by Flea on the 1989 'Mother's Milk' album - Stevie Wonder cover), also prominent on many songs from their first album through to Mother's Milk.
* Primus - Tommy The Cat (bass by Les Claypool on the 1991 'Sailing The Seas Of Cheese')
* Mr. Bungle - My Ass Is On Fire (bass by Trevor Dunn on the 1991' Mr. Bungle (album))
* Queen - Cool Cat (bass by John Deacon, on the album 'Hot Space'; one of the few songs in which he used this technique).
* Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back (bass by Tim Commerford, on their self-titled album)
* Coal Chamber - Loco