For bass players who play unfretted bass instruments, which include the double bass (also known as the "upright bass" or the "acoustic...

The expression "play the field" started out as a horse-racing term, which meant to spread your bets around the different horses, to...

One of the challenges of writing about music, even when you're delimiting yourself to a subtopic such as "playing bass", is that the...

Pride has a mixed reputation. Sometimes, we hear about it praised as a virtue: "That guitar builder takes great pride in their...

Music and musicians tend to get hemmed in by frameworks and grids. Yes, it's good to have different categories and names for the...

[Disclaimer: consult a qualified amplifier or electronics professional before hooking up amplifiers or speakers] When people first start...

When you hear the expression "slap bass", you're not wrong to immediately think of 1970s funk electric bass players slapping the low...

I remember the first time I noticed the cool sound of the bass. I was a kid playing at a friend's house in 1980. We'd finished a...