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I know a couple of nice slap solos:

The Reddings: The Awakening
The whole song is impressive. I personally think this is really hard. If you can't find tabs, try looking for them under the name of "Les Claypool," since he does this solo once in a while, too. This is a hard one - I'm still trying to get all the parts down.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Coffee Shop
There are two bass solos in this one. They're both funky but one is slow and the other (later) is fast. Pretty hard.

Stanley Clarke: School Days
The slap bass line for this is awesome. It starts off with some stroking and then hits the main thing. And then there's this little interlude or something that uses slap/pop that sounds real bluesy. Not that hard, but if you try to mimick ol' Stan's fingerstyle solo in this, your fingers'll pop off and find a new owner.

Marcus Miller: Mr. Pastorius
Really nice, smooth, somewhat depressing song. It combines tapping and fingerstyle. Intermediate. It really comes together once you get the timing right and practice a bit.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Aeroplane
This was my introduction to bass playing. :) The intro is very nice and harmonic and the chorus is also nice, but I think this song really shines when Flea starts slapping for the verses. He also does a little fingerstyle funky solo. It isn't that hard, but I had a really hard time memorizing all the variations Flea put on the verse slap line.

That's all I can think of now. I'd bet you'll get a whole lot more from others.
 
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Haha... I'm not so sure about that. Every slap solo I've encountered in my measly two years of playing has been hard for me.

Hm... I'd try out Red Hot Chili Peppers' Aeroplane. It doesn't really have a slap solo, but it has a very groovy slap line during the verse.
 
alrite by the way u no anyware i can learn how to slap hahahahaha lol ill try aeroplan, do u no of any easy solos thoug for like a beginner?
 
Hey mmman, a good way to start on the path to soloing is to learn some good melodies or strong riff oriented basslines. Try out "So What" by Miles Davis also any of the Jamey Abersold series of 'How-To' books/CDs for jazz are great. Also, the bassline to "Ramble On" by Led Zepplin is a great one to learn due to it's melodic factor and noodle-ish-ness during the verses. Have fun with it all man!

ps. Thelonius Monk tunes are great melodies to learn too!!
 
hey dood thanx ill be sure to look thos up and jam. ill look into those jazz books and stuff too, thanx for the quick replys man
 
one of the sickest slap solo's i have ever heard is by no other then victor wooten on one of his many solo cd's (yin yang) the songs called Hip Bop.... check it out
 
if you want good solos, listen to Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic by the Chili Peppers. some good ones are Power of Equality and Naked in the Rain.

Another awesome person to listen to is Stu Hamm. He has great solos
 
Mark King's Solo Album.

The opening track is 17 minutes long and the slap solo at around the 15 minute mark nearly lead to me giving up playing bass when I first heard it.

Any number of tracks off of the first Level 42 Album - Dune Tune.

There is also a nice little bass line on a track called "I will see you tomorrow" on the Deacon Blue album, "Fellow Hoodlums". Nice as a stretching exercise - played by one of my fave bassists Euan Vernal.
 
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