We often give glory to the soaring guitar solos or the powerhouse vocals, but the true heartbeat of any great track lives in the low end. The bass line bridges rhythm and melody, grounding the song ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

Musician-and-inventor Paul Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington, developed the first modern fretted electric bass guitar in 1936. And it just so happens another Seattle native, Guns N' Roses very own Duff ...

It need hardly be stated, but Parker has been, for the last quarter of a century, a fiery and creative fountain of consistent improvisational brilliance in the creative music field. William Parker ...

If Frank Zappa’s endless guitar solos somehow leave your earbuds craving more, music-hackers Dadabots are here to satisfy your auditory desires. The team of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski recently used a ...

A four-part series created by Columbus musician Myke Rock will bring bass guitarists out of the background to center stage.

Metallica have created some of the most critically acclaimed music in the world of rock and metal over the course of three decades. And one of the foundations of their music has been Kirk Hammett's ...