Created by Ibanez’s L.A. Custom Shop in 2012, Thundercat’s main axe is a highly customized Ibanez Artcore 6-string. It’s a neck-through with a maple top and back, five-piece maple/jatoba neck, ...

Having spent his teens and 20s playing bass with Snoop Dogg ... in a highly-customised Ibanez 6-string/8-string double-neck bass guitar, built in 2015. “It’s got this Pink Floyd-ish tone ...

Here the Soweto Kinch Trio play their contemporary version of 'Maple Leaf Rag'. 'Ragtime It' is performed by saxophone, drums and double bass. Listen for lots of arpeggios within the melody.

"I don’t play with all four of my fingers ... Developed by Franz Simandl, the technique is typically used on a double bass to stop the strings in the instrument's lower register.