
Normally bass guitars are electric but acoustic bass guitars are also available in the market.īass guitar lock in with (especially) the bass drum and help link the main beat, the main pulse, of the music from the ‘dry’ sound of the drum to the ‘warmer’ sound of the harmony and melody content of the music.Įver seen someone soloing on a 24 string bass guitar? No? Well, here is a video where Davie504 solos on a 24 stringed guitar. The bass guitar has a longer neck and a longer string with pitch than than the normal guitar. Bass guitar traditionally have four strings while a normal standard guitar has six strings. Bass guitar is different from their highly stringed cousins(normal guitar) in many ways.

It’s mainly just a display piece that circulates around various music conventions. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings. As far as I’m concerned, the Godzilla bass is worth at least 5 million dollars and it’s truly a one of a kind, I believe there’s only 2 or 3 of those green 24 string basses ever made. Check this out….The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking.

The four-string bass, by far the most common, is usually tuned the same as the double bass.īut in this video, we can see 24 string bass guitar. Generally, we can see the bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock and metal styles.Basically, the bass guitar is a stringed instrument played mostly with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick. But, since the 1990s the bass guitar has largely changed the double bass in popular music as the bass instruments in the rhythm section.Īs well as, the bass guitar include in many styles of music like, rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily than on acoustic or electric upright basses. In the 1930s, musician Paul Tutmarc manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.
