History of the Bass Guitar part 4

History Of The Bass 1990 - 2000s

The 1990s saw the popularization of the acoustic bass guitar and extensive use of 5-string electric. This is also a great time period for innovation bass as on-board electronics is rapidly improving. The use of preamplifiers and equalizers in the guitar's on-board system that allowed for a wider range of clean sounds. This also allows for a much-improved, articulate attack came in and slap techniques. This technique has always been widely used in funk and jazz genres, but became more popular in stone, metal, and alternative as proven by its use in such bands as Korn, by Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, by Michael "Flea" Balzary.

In the new millennium has seen bass guitar radical transformation, adaptation, and improvement. Extended Range Basses (ERBs) now comes as much as 12-string octave variation without duplication. There are also 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 string option in various Erb. In 2004, luthier Michael Adler built the first 11-string bass. He followed it the next year with the first 12-string. Both guitar music has the same range as a grand piano.

Pickups moving forward with the use of optics that uses an infrared LED to sense movement of the optical string. Most LED pickups combined with PIEZO pickup because the LED can not feel the buzz or the resonance that can carry traditional pickups. This gives a cleaner sound while still able to take advantage of all the techniques and style of play.

In 2010 electric bass guitar will celebrate the birthday-75. At that time the bass has been changed from stock-piece solid Alder and Maple with single-coil magnetic pickup and no electronic goods that living, breathing piece of history that has been, and will continue, the driving pulse of music and musicians everywhere.

History of the Bass Guitar Part 3

History Of The Bass Guitar 1970 - 1980s

In 1970 the old double bass has been removed from the genre's most popular music and the electric bass have been taken over. This era also saw the greatest advances in the design of the bass guitar as a few companies that use more "active" electronics and wider body styles. Human Musical Instrument formation, by Forrest White, Vice President of Fender Corporation, Tom Walker, the design engineer to work for Fender, and Leo Fender himself, causing the release Stingray bass guitar. Stingray is the first mass-produced bass to utilize active electronics. This allows for the sound quality better provide less distortion and lower impedance than the frequency response. This is mainly due to the on-board pre-amplifier.

The development of the internal electronics do not stop there. In 1969, Alembic Inc., was formed by Ron and Sue Wickersham. Along with Rick Turner, who is widely known for its engineering design and assist in pioneering the unique sound of The Grateful Dead, they began one of the popular "boutique" shops. This store serves expensive, high-end custom design a bass guitar. That is the kind of adjustment that causes these features as a graphite neck, low impedance pickups, and 5 - and 6-string bass guitar.

First Alembic bass was designed for the Jack Casady, at the time, was playing with Jefferson Airplane. Bass have extreme filtering capabilities and pickups mounted on a brass pipe. This allows for adjustment of the pickup. It did not take long for Rick Turner's design capabilities to address because it immediately makes Basses for Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead, Lamar Williams of The Allman Brothers, and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. Another boutique shops, such as Tobias and Ken Smith, quickly followed and began production of 4 - and 5-string Basses custom.

This is Carl Thompson, however, designed the first 6-string bass. Thompson was a luthier from Brooklyn, New York, who worked mostly in repair instruments before making the first instrument in 1975. It was one year later, jazz and Motown bassist Anthony Jackson Thompson was assigned to the first-ever 6-string. Unlike the 5-string cousin, who added a low "B" string to the normal E, A, D, G scale, plus 6-string low "B" and also high-end "C" string for the total scale of B, E, A , D, G, C. This provides a wider range for bassists who play need to play versatile spectrum, especially in the rhythm-dominated genre such as jazz, funk, and R & B.

In the 1980s bass design has reached a new level. With the advances of modern technology and innovative designers everywhere, bass guitar combines several new materials and functions in the fabrication. Some of these new incorporations involving more graphite, silicon rubber strap, and a new pickup design, such as the first PIEZO non-magnetic pickup. The PIEZO use a transducer crystal to convert the string vibrations into electrical signals are then sent to the amplifier. At the end of 1979, Ned Steinberger introduced a headless bass first and then designed the Trans-Trem tremolo bar, or as is more commonly known as, the Whammy Bar.

This is also a popular time period for the design and use of the fretless bass guitar. Original Fender electric equipped with 20 positions Basses fret board while most of the newer is 24 or more. While complaining bass guitar allows the player to more accurately and clearly found the notes and finger positions, a fretless bass sound more different. A fretless bass has more than a muffled voice from the player's fingers are always in contact with the strings, not as worried that allows the string bass reverberate between the bridge and the raised fret. This also allows for a smoother bass using techniques such as glissando and vibrato. Fretless bassist Pino Palladino, including the popular, now of The Who, Jaco Pastorius, and Bill Wyman who created the first fretless bass by removing the fret board of an old Japanese guitar he had.

History of the Bass Guitar 2

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.

History of the Bass Guitar

History Of The Bass Guitar Through 1940s

Long before the bass guitar was connected to the electricity and pumped through a 1,000-watt amplifier, it is called double bass. No, this is not the same thing that used to give their drummer exercising the calf muscles. The double bass is the largest and lowest pitched instruments used in most of the symphony orchestra. This is usually played with a bow, standing upright, and dates back to the 16th century. It's tuned much the same way as the standard 4-string electric bass, with notes E, A, D, and G.

    Year 1935 was a musician from Seattle, Washington, named Paul Tutmarc, developed the first electric bass guitar. He called it "electronic bass fiddle" and sell them through the catalog company, Audiovox. It's built solid, four strings, and has a 30 ½ "long scale, making it easier to carry, tone, and learn to play. However, a solid bodied guitar, it does not have an on-board electronics to allow manipulation of sound. It's just equipped with single-coil magnetic pickup and voice modification largely controlled through the amplifier. In fact these modifications are submitted to the tone, volume and tone. Tutmarc Unfortunately for the music a certain age most of the orchestra and big band so that the electric bass have never collected a lot of interest .


At the end of the 1940s, electric bass have started to get some interest in blues and jazz clubs in the south. It's easy transportability and easy tuning make comfortable for the musicians travel from nightclub to nightclub. This also provided for a louder voice. This allows certain bassists of the era to adjust the volume with a 6-string electric co. In 1951, Leo Fender, with the help of his friend and long-time employee, George Fullerton, Fender Precision Bass develop, often referred to as "P-Bass." Precision is designed as a partner to a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. This is the first mass-produced and bass guitar, until today, is one of the best-selling electric Basses of all time.