Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

Larry Graham funk-bass tutorials Slap-bass innovator Larry Graham—of Sly & the Family Stone and later his own Graham Central Station—began developing his “thumpin’ and pluckin'” technique to make up ...