THE FUTURE IS HERE
Anyone who wants to know where the world of bass is going simply needs to check YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, where a whole new generation of super-talented, super-successful bass players are pushing the instrument forward.
Words: Joel McIver
Let’s meet them!
For the first, say, 50 years of the bass guitar’s existence, the idea was that if you wanted to build a career on the instrument, first you worked privately to master it, then you recorded music onto pieces of plastic, and then you went out and played the bass in front of people. That was how you got a) known, and b) paid.