Again with the slap bass! Maybe it's not funk that I dislike, it's just the sound of slap bass. It brings visions of Flea dancing around in a sock. Shudder. Funk! Without having to disguise it as ...

Credit: Getty Images Bass Week: As a bass player ... additional percussive sounds – the ‘slap’ referred to in the name is primarily performed in a ‘thump and pluck’ style, where the ...

Bassists like Larry Graham come around maybe once a century. Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, ...

Charles says in a session market dominated by men, she can think of few females in the UK who regularly slap the bass. A respected session player with Robbie Williams and Paul Weller and formerly ...

One of the best UK funk and soul festivals in 2024 (that squeezes in a bit of house ... house, and drum and bass. Moovin started in 2016 and has massively improved each time, especially with ...

Ask anyone to list their favourite bass players and chances ... showing no sign of removing the funk from their blend of funk rock. This one mixes up straight 16th-note finger technique with a ...

Seinfeld, a show about nothing, now officially has the slap bass-fueled soundtrack its fans ... When Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) dates a saxophone player in a seventh-season episode, the original ...

Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, or slap bass if you prefer ... “Sometimes in a family, it comes time to go. Nothing is specifically wrong; at some point you ...