About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Bass guitar manufacturing companies, Bass guitarists, Electric bass guitars, List of bass guitarists, Emir Kusturica, Music Man, Bass instrument amplification, Pino Presti, Jazz bass, Lakland, David Dyson, Acoustic bass guitar, Warwick, List of jazz bassists, Slapping, Drone, Traben Bass Company, Extended-range bass, Jens Ritter Instruments, Jonas Hellborg, Malka Spigel, Juan Garcia-Herreros, Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, Boss Corporation, Oscar D'Leon, Wal, Milan Hlavsa, Diego Saa, Vox Bass Guitar, Hofner 500/1, Eight string bass guitar, Rickenbacker 4001, Streamer Bass, Fodera, List of slap bass players, BassLab, List of bass amplifier and loudspeaker manufacturers, Warwick Corvette, Michael Tobias Design, Hagstrom H8, Costas Andreou, Contrabass guitar, Jayen Varma, Ashbory bass, Rickenbacker 325, Shergold Marathon, Abel Guier, Ivana "Ivy" Vujic, Tim Tobin, Warwick Thumb, Piccolo bass, Wishbass, Warwick Thumb SC, Yamaha RBX6JM, Bass guitar tuning, Ingus Bau enieks, Ibanez K5, Fleabass, Warwick Dolphin, Twelve-string bass, Luthite, Tokai Talbo Bass Guitar, Philip Kubicki Factor Bass, John Idan. Excerpt: The bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb (by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, or thumping), or by using a pick. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, or six strings. The four-string bass-by far the most common-is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lower 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 (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the el...
