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 ...

Learning bass guitar has long been thought of as the practical choice in a band, the glue that holds the whole thing together. But the instrument has a way of reshaping how you think, play, and even ...