There's a number of different techniques when it comes to playing — fingers, slap and even the divisive pick/plectrum. The running joke basically equates bass players who use a pick to not being ...

although he mostly stopped using picks in the '80s. Simmons argued that when it comes to playing a bass guitar, though, playing with a pick helps a live crowd hear the notes better ...

producing bass and playing bass – and it f**ked my hands up. You're not supposed to use your hands to do every single thing in the day, right? So using the pick actually saved my hands,” says Kae. “I ...

producing bass and playing bass – and it fucked my hands up. You're not supposed to use your hands to do every single thing in the day, right? So using the pick actually saved my hands.

Music in videogames is so important - imagine playing Super Mario with the volume ... I want it to basically be the same bass that I use, with a split-coil and single-coil pickup setup and maybe a ...

Alternating between using a pick and his fingers on his StingRay ... How do you approach your bass playing? “With five other guys in the band, I have so many sounds coming at me that it can ...