(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates his chops on bass.)  The technique known as slapping & popping gets you the sound of this classic '70s style of music found in the name of a George Clinton group
Slap bass's mixture of thumb-slapped low notes and finger "
popped" (or .... By the mid-1960s, James Brown had developed his signature 
groove that... [DOC] [TLE] Joseph Patrick Moore News - Josephpatrickmoore.com [PAR] Dec 23, 2011 ...