On the fretted bass we call it the slap stopper!” Each of Gary’s Ibanez basses comes with a standard setup, but every player can alter the height of the ramp based on their individual choice.

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 ...

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 ...