From John Myung to Felix Pastorius to Thundercat, we follow their historic quest for the ultimate extended-range axe ...

Lemmy had a very unique style of bass playing that he made a career off of, but he was always envious of this other bass ...

I've used that six-string bass a lot ... I think the song is called "Big Bottom, and they had a bass player, a middle bass, and a lead bass, or whatever. I saw the movie and it was like, "Well ...

From the godfather of thumpin’ and pluckin’ to Victor Wooten’s game-changing slap technique, we bring you the players that you must know if you want to call yourself a true bass aficionado ...

On the first two albums, there were lots of instrumentals, and I was trying to convey ideas that way,” Thundercat told Bass Player. “Now songwriting has taken a front seat.

Classical bass students learn all of the different bow articulations used by other string section players (e.g., violin and cello), such as détaché, legato, staccato, sforzato, martelé ...