Tuning and Bass History

Tuning and Bass History 

Electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument that uses electricity to enlarge his voice. Its appearance is similar to an electric guitar but it has a larger body, a longer neck, and usually have four strings, while the electric guitar has six strings. 

And bass guitar weigh more heavily than usual electric guitar, this is because the strings are thicker (to preserve modesty tone / sound), causing the wood to choose a more solid and hard to balance takanan the "neck" (guitar neck), but it fret size (columns on guitar) greater adjusted to the thickness of the strings. 

There are many types of bass used to date. The most widely used form Ciello contra bass and bass (commonly used for opera performances), electric bass (commonly used for all types of performances, especially the band) and "fretless" bass with electric bass but no fret (column / constraint on board press / neck) on the bass. The working principle is similar to the contra fretless bass / bass Ciello just shaped electric guitar. 

Below are the various forms of bass

 

Bass Strings 4

Bass Strings 5

 Bass Strings 6

Strings and tuning 

     Four strings, (usually in-tune "GDAE", "GDAD", "GDGD", "DAEB", "FCGD" or "FCGC") 

     Five strings, (usually in-tune "GDAEB" but sometimes "CGDAE".) 

     Six strings, (usually in-tune "CGDAEB" or "BGDAEB", although "EBGDAE" also liked used.) 

Tuning above sorted by number strings (strings 1, strings 2, and so on), where 1 is the string bottom strings of a bass guitar (the thinnest string). 

Bass player chose to use five-string bass with six strings or more due to the breadth of range of tones that can dimainkannya.Biasanya six stringed bass is widely used by jazz bass player, and a homage to rock-even some that use it, because more breadth of range tone can be played.