TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT BASS Guitar AN HOW TO USE IT
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT BASS Guitar AN HOW TO USE IT
BASS GUITAR
Parts of the Bass
A bass is made up of three main sections: the body, the neck and the headstock. All of the other parts of the bass are mounted on these three sections. The bridge is the assembly that anchors the strings to the body. Pickups are also mounted to the body and work like little microphones that pick up the sound from the strings. A cable is plugged into the bass’s input jack to send the signal into the amp. Most bass guitars will also have a pickup selector switch along with volume and tone knobs. A strap can be attached to the strap buttons to play the bass standing up. The metal bars that go across the neck are called frets. The dots between certain frets are called position markers and help you know where your hand is on the neck while playing. At the end of the neck is the nut which guides the strings onto the headstock and keeps them in place. On the headstock, the strings are wound around the tuning posts, and the tuners (also called machine heads) are used to tune the strings to pitch.
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings. The four-string bass—by far the most common—is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest pitched strings of a guitar. The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While the types of bass lines performed by the bassist vary widely from one style of music to another, the bassist fulfills a similar role in most types of music: anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat. The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz. It is used as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock and metal styles.
LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS: Notes
Notes are the basic building blocks of all music. Knowing the notes and how to play them on the bass guitar is very important. The bass guitar has an "alphabet" of 12 different notes: A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#.
It is important to know the notes and how to play them on your bass guitar. If you have a four-stringed bass guitar, then from top to bottom, the strings correspond to the notes G, D, A, and E. Each note on the scale of A to G# is half a step higher than the one preceding it. On the bass guitar, half a step equals one fret. Every time you move your finger one fret up the neck, the note that you play increases by half a step. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases:
The following diagram shows the notes in relation to each fret on a bass guitar with four strings.
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