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 ...

But his Bass 301 syllabus is the sort of thing that any bass player can learn from. And judging by this 11-minute preview, in which Dart teaches slap bass, there’s going to be no shortage of ...

Bassists like Larry Graham come around maybe once a century. Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, or slap bass if you prefer, he switched to bass from guitar and famously ...

T.M. Stevens' slap-bass funky metal stylings were recognizable to fans at the Shore, where he was a regular at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch.

Bass player John B. Williams, the butt of a bald joke cracked by Will Smith on 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' weighs in on Oscars slap.

It’s always fun to footage of artists when they were young and embarrassing, before they became the performers we all know and love. It’s a nice reminder that once upon a time, most, if not all, of us ...

Les Claypool's groundbreaking bass techniques, combining unpredictable blends of strumming, picking, bending, slapping and tapping defines everything quirky and unique about Primus' funky art-metal.