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 ...

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 ...

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