Overview:
- The bass guitar (also called electric bass or simply bass) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum.
- 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. 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 (E, A, D, and G)
- The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines.
- Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.
Bass Guitar Parts:
Specifications:
- STAGG BC300/5 5-String "Fusion" Electric Bass Guitar
- Pickups: 2 x JB
- Controls: 2 x Volume + 1 x Tone
- Body: solid Alder
- Neck: Hard Maple, bolt-on, 867 mm, (34 .2 in.)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood, 24 frets
- Bridge: "JB" Classic
- Machine head: diecast, black
- Optional Colour: Black / Sunburst