Entertainment | Moive | comedy | tv shows » Electric bass guitars http://www.michaelnickens.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:50:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The roots of electric bass guitars http://www.michaelnickens.com/the-roots-of-electric-bass-guitars/ http://www.michaelnickens.com/the-roots-of-electric-bass-guitars/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:16:57 +0000 admin http://www.michaelnickens.com/?p=105 Electric bass guitars are an integral part of any band, providing a musical complement to the percussion and driving the music along with a solid defined beat. Electric bass guitars tend to differ from upright bases in that the latter are fretless. In homage to the upright bass, however, and to provide the player with more scope for reaching and gliding over a finer continuum of musical sounds, the fretless electric bass has also been developed.

Most bass guitars today continue to match the conventional tuning of an upright bass, with the strings usually being tuned, from lowest to highest: EADG. These four notes also mirror the lowest four strings of a conventional six string guitar, except that those on the bass guitar are an octave lower. Some bass guitars however have an additional fifth or even sixth string added, to give the player the option of even deeper notes or the scope for hitting higher notes. Electric bass guitars have come a long way, but you do not have to go further than contacting us at Fret Music for the best advice on choosing a bass guitar.

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