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 ...

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 ...

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 ...