Let's Swim in the Music Ocean
Bass guitars are known for bringing the bottom end into all genres of music, but slap bass is in a league of its own. Slap playing involves a special technique that uses the fingers and thumb to slap and pull the strings on a bass for added punch. This technique allows players to rhythmically alternate …
Once I got good at piano, I was afraid to learn anything else, especially anything with strings. The instruments just seemed too different! Eventually, though, I found the courage to start playing guitar. I’m glad I did, too — I soon found that my piano experience actually made learning a new instrument easier. But before …
Larry McCray’s heart and soul are in the blues. Of that, there’s no question. It’s been 25 years — award-winning ones at that — of scalding-hot and tasteful blues from the Arkansas-born, Michigan-based singer, guitarist, bandleader, songwriter and heir apparent to a lineage that includes personal influences and heroes such as B.B. King, Freddie King, …