Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Introduction Electric Guitar

Regardless of age of a piece of music, there has always been a musical line, which consists of a bass part. Whether it is through foot keyboard on an organ that plays a standing bass with a bow or play tuba, has all the music needs a cornerstone, and it is found in the form of a bass line. Without a bass line to create a reference point for chords and harmony, much of the music we listen to would sound incomplete. With rapidly evolving style of blues, jazz, R & B and rock, and an ever increasing need for portability and louder, louder bass clearly highlighted in the musical hooks, there was a clear need for a new kind of bass instrument. This is when the bass came in the game. 

Bass guitars have been around since the 1930s, but not quite in exactly the same form as the Fender bass guitar that we know today, but one can say that their predecessors, the acoustic bass, has existed for many years longer. The electric bass offered a substantial change from the sounds that people had become accustomed to hearing from former upright Bass. With it's like to play guitar position for electric bass deviated from it difficult to make acoustic bass, electric bass guitar strings also was not bent like an acoustic musicians and offered a relatively easier to play and use highly portable instruments. With the exception of a longer neck and has 4 strings, instead of 6, the electric bass looks very much like the electric guitar, since they both have a solid body, which is often shaped the same. The method of sound production is different from an acoustic instrument with a sound hole to provide natural reinforcement, Fender bass guitars plugged into an electrical amplifier and Transportation of the body, the strings transmit this electrical signal to the amplifier, which then outputs the sound from the speakers. With four strings tuned in 4ths, like the four lower strings of a regular guitar except tuned an octave lower, similar to the guitar bass guitarist and sometimes play bass, and vice versa. While the guitars are mostly strummed and trains can bass played with a variety of techniques, and including, fingering, picking, slapping, thumb play, muting the pump and much more. Because of the close relationship to the drums and the pulse of the music, bass is considered to be a rhythm section instrument.

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