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History Of The Bass 1950 - 1960s
It did not take long for the electric version of the old double bass to catch. By 1953 musicians in the country, moved from their heavy, stand-up equivalent to the ease and convenience of electricity. The most famous of these musicians is the first bassist ever go on tour with electricity, Monk Montgomery. Montgomery toured with Lionel Hampton's Big Band Orchestra and until the early 1950s P-Bass with the most popular jazz, orchestra, and rhythm and blues band. This causes one of the most important turning point in the history of the electric bass. In 1953, Gibson Guitar Corporation, which was founded by Orville Gibson and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, released EB-1 Bass. Many Gibson is considered more comfortable to play and find that it gives the sound quality better because of the use of dual-coil humbucking pickups mounted on the base of the neck (Fender's pickups are mounted directly between the base of the neck and upper part of the bridge, so it is more convenient to play).
Realization of Gibson electric bass on the market provide some competition and, headquartered in Nashville, also allows the popularity of the electric bass to move into the genre as a country and rock and roll. At that time, debate, Bill Black adoption of the Fender P-Bass in 1957 that caused the biggest marketing push for electric bass ever. Black is the bassist for the most popular artists, maybe of all time, Elvis Presley. Soon after that, companies such as Kay, Rickenbacker and Hofner, began producing their own model electric bass. The appearance of the stone age to take low-end, the rhythm of an ax to new heights.
In 1960, the company not only produce bass guitar, bass guitar they produced to serve a specific musical genre. In 1960, Fender released the first "Jazz Bass," also known as J-Bass. It was intended to accompany the Fender Jazzmaster electric guitar. The Jazz bass nut displays narrow, making it easier to play than its predecessor, Precision. The earliest version of the J-Bass features a control for volume and single tone control. This is known as "stacking" pickup and, sometimes, to make certain notes bearing. This configuration causes a volume control; a volume control for each pickup and a single, passive tone control. Popularity Fender bass at the time, and early market dominance, resulting in the characterization of two separate pickup style referred to as "P-pickup" or "J-pickup."
During this era, Fender also began production on "Mustang" bass. Introduced in 1966 and a 30 "long scale bass, similar to the original Tutmarc size 30 ½" electronic bass fiddle. Predecessor, P-and J-Basses are both 34 "Basses. Mustang gained increasing popularity, especially in the British rock movement, as used by Alan Lancaster from Status Quo, Wally Waller from The Pretty Things, and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones . Its popularity is not known whether the United States as well as used by Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys. shorter length makes it more comfortable for the first bassists learn to play the standard six-string guitar.
