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  2. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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    Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...

  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. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    When the electric bass guitar was popularized by the release in 1951 of the Fender Precision Bass, its shorter scale length of 34 in (860 mm) was established as the standard scale length for a bass guitar. An instrument with a scale of 30 in (760 mm) or less is considered "short scale". A "medium scale" of 32 in (810 mm), halfway between the ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Gibson Thunderbird - Wikipedia

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    Josh Reedy of DecembeRadio playing a custom Gibson Thunderbird onstage. The Thunderbird bass, like the Rickenbacker 4000 series and the Firebird guitar designed concurrently, has neck-through construction: the neck wood runs the entire length of the body, with the rest of the body glued into place. [3]

  7. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuela, as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica.

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