The EB-0 was very similar to a Gibson SG in appearance (although the earliest examples have a slab-sided body shape closer to that of the double-cutaway Les Paul Special). In 1959 these were followed by the more conventional-looking EB-0 Bass. Gibson renamed the Electric Bass in 1958 as the EB-1 (The EB-1 was reissued around 1970, but this time without the end pin.) Also in 1958 Gibson released the maple arched top EB-2 described in the Gibson catalogue as A hollow-body electric bass that features a Bass/Baritone pushbutton for two different tonal characteristics. įollowing Fender's lead, Gibson released the violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally. Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, adopted the Fender Precision Bass around 1957. Roy Johnson, who replaced Montgomery in Hampton's band, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers. Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band. The "Fender Bass was a revolutionary new instrument, one that could easily be played by an electric guitarist, could be easily transported to a gig, and could be amplified to just about any volume without feeding back". 1950sĪ Fender Standard Jazz Bass (front and back views) However, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period.Īround 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L.D. The alteration to a "guitar" form made the instrument easier to hold and transport, and the addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily.
The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his "Model 736 Bass Fiddle," a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length. In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally. Musical instrument inventor Paul Tutmarc outside his music store in Seattle, Washington It is used as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock and metal styles. The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, blues, and jazz.
While the types of basslines 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 laying down the beat. Since the 1950s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances. 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. 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 lower strings of a guitar (E, A, D, and G). 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 bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass / ˈ b eɪ s /) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb (by fingering, slapping, popping, tapping, or thumping), or by using a pick.
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