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It's like slapping the lowest part of the piano, like a thunder/rumble/booming-like effect. I've seen on wiki that it may be called "bashing"? How do you achieve it?

Here's a video of it being using multiple times, towards the ending

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  • Elton John used that to great effect in the song Bennie And The Jets. I have seen him perform live. It's a powerful thing when blasting through thousands of watts of PA system.
    – Sparquelito
    Dec 26, 2019 at 10:26

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Fortissimo

Or triple forte - fortississimo - I suppose is the proper thing to mean as loud as possible.

In that particular recording it sounds like there is a bass drum or some other percussion also being used. That seems to be what is producing the big thud.

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