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          Larry Graham pioneered the slap-pop bass playing technique while performing with Sly & the Family Stone in the late s.!

          Explore Darric Graham's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews.

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        3. Larry Graham pioneered the slap-pop bass playing technique while performing with Sly & the Family Stone in the late s.
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          6. Larry Graham

          Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14, 1946) is an American bass guitar player, both with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

          He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "thumpin' and pluckin' ".

          Life and career

          Born in Beaumont, Texas, to successful musicians, Graham played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1966 to 1972.

          It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.

          This style has become archetypal of modern funk. Slap-pop playing c