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  2. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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    Five strings usually tuned B 0 –E 1 –A 1 –D 2 –G 2, providing extended lower range. The earliest commercial five-string bass was created by Fender in 1965. The Fender Bass V used the E–A–D–G–C tuning, but was unpopular and discontinued in 1970. This tenor tuning is still used by some jazz and soloing bassists.

  3. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/ beɪs /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are ...

  4. Acoustic bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than, a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A ...

  5. Eight-string bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    An eight-string bass guitar is a type of bass guitar with double course strings normally tuned in octaves, with both strings in a course usually played simultaneously. As on a 12-string guitar , this produces a natural chorus effect due to the subtle differences in string pitch.

  6. Bass instrument - Wikipedia

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    A bass instrument (/ beɪs /) is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C 2 –C 4. [1] Basses belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles. Since producing low pitches usually requires a long air column or string, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest ...

  7. Jazz bass - Wikipedia

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    Jazz bass is the use of the double bass or electric bass guitar to improvise accompaniment ("comping") basslines and solos in a jazz or jazz fusion style. Players began using the double bass in jazz in the 1890s to supply the low-pitched walking basslines that outlined the chord progressions of the songs. From the 1920s and 1930s Swing and big ...

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