Electric bass | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar


00:01:49 1 History
00:01:59 1.1 1930s–1940s
00:03:36 1.2 1950s
00:08:37 1.3 1960s
00:11:39 1.4 1970s
00:15:03 1.5 1980s–present
00:18:14 2 Design considerations
00:25:49 2.1 Fretted and fretless basses
00:29:29 2.2 Strings and tuning
00:36:58 2.2.1 Alternative range approaches
00:41:53 2.3 Alternative neck designs
00:44:31 3 Pickups and amplification
00:44:42 3.1 Magnetic pickups
00:54:22 3.2 Non-magnetic pickups
00:56:09 3.3 Amplification and effects
00:59:08 4 Playing techniques
00:59:18 4.1 Sitting or standing
01:00:35 4.2 Performing techniques
01:03:28 4.2.1 Slap and pop
01:05:58 4.2.2 Picking techniques
01:07:30 4.2.3 Palm-muting techniques
01:08:45 4.2.4 Fretting techniques
01:14:39 4.2.5 Two-handed tapping
01:15:56 4.2.6 Strumming
01:16:31 4.2.7 Chucking
01:17:55 5 Uses
01:18:04 5.1 Popular and traditional music
01:22:26 5.2 Solos in metal, funk and progressive rock
01:26:51 5.3 Jazz and jazz fusion
01:29:25 5.4 Use in contemporary classical music
01:34:10 6 Pedagogy and training
01:35:25 6.1 Formal training
01:40:14 6.2 Informal training
01:41:18 7 See also
01:41:47 8 Footnotes and references
01:41:58 8.1 Sources
01:42:32 9 Further reading
01:44:32 10 External links



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The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or simply bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses. 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). The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds. It is played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as 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.
Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another, the bassist usually plays a similar role: anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat. Many styles of music include the bass guitar, including rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, thrash metal, technical death metal, funk, progressive rock and other rock and metal styles.