By the time the bass guitar came along in 1951, upright bass players had been slapping and pulling on their strings for several decades. Milt Hinton was one such player who pioneered a percussive ...

Slap bass has come a long way since Larry Graham first championed the style in the 1970s. Graham has said that he was simply trying to create a drum-like sound to flesh out the rhythm in the then ...

The Vulfpeck virtuoso walks through his Flea-inspired technique, talks dead notes, the importance of “thinking of yourself like a drummer” in this taster of his new Bass 301 lecture series When you ...