LEARN TO PLAY LIKE MARK KING

Hello, and welcome back to my long-running Advanced Techniques series. Over the past few instalments, we’ve been taking a detailed look at the playing techniques of some of the world’s best-known slap bassists. So far, we’ve looked at icons such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Marcus Miller, and in this month’s instalment we’ll be analyzing the work of Mark King, one of the UK’s most popular bass players.

King has fronted the pop/funk group Level 42 for over 40 years, with the group racking up sales of over 30 million albums along the way. Although they’re best-known for their Top 40 hits during the Eighties, the band