Bass guitar | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar


00:00:45 1 Terminology
00:01:43 2 History
00:01:51 2.1 1930s–1940s
00:03:19 2.2 1950s
00:07:21 2.3 1960s
00:09:44 2.4 1970s
00:12:30 2.5 1980s–present
00:15:10 3 Design considerations
00:20:54 3.1 Fretted and fretless basses
00:24:29 3.2 Strings and tuning
00:30:03 3.2.1 Alternative range approaches
00:32:02 3.3 Alternative neck designs
00:33:45 4 Pickups and amplification
00:33:54 4.1 Magnetic pickups
00:39:32 4.2 Non-magnetic pickups
00:40:53 4.3 Amplification and effects
00:43:30 5 See also
00:43:48 6 Footnotes and references
00:43:58 6.1 Sources
00:44:26 7 Further reading
00:46:08 8 External links



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The bass guitar (or simply bass) is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. 
The four-string bass is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of a guitar (E, A, D, and G). It is played primarily with the fingers or thumb, or striking with a pick. The electric bass guitar has pickups and must be connected to an amplifier and speaker to be loud enough to compete with other instruments.