enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_length_(string...

   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".

3. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar

   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 (music) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)

   Again, this implies that the notes are drawn from a chromatic scale tuned with 12-tone equal temperament. For some fretted string instruments, such as the guitar and the bass guitar, scales can be notated in tabulature, an approach which indicates the fret number and string upon which each scale degree is played.

5. Jazz bass - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_bass

   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. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar_tuning

   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 ...

7. Multi-scale fingerboard - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-scale_fingerboard

   Cort KX500MS Star Dust Green -fanned fret / multi-scale - 7-string electric guitar with EMG -pickups. A multi-scale fingerboard (also called multiple scale length fretboard[1]) is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. This allows each of the strings to have a different string tension and thus, balanced tonal ...