dragonworks
Banned
Well is it??
VOXVENDOR
New member
Is a Chevette a car?
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
Electriclly speaking, it seems to have evolved in that direction. As a traditional acoustic instrument, not in my opinion, so, yes and no.
Cyrokk
Farce of Nature
Aren't up stand-up basses (ala Stray Cats) acoustic?
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dragonworks
Banned
Dat stan up bass don look like no gitar to me. The guitar evolved from??? the lute??? what did the bass evolve from, the guitar????? The stand up form the cello??? These are very deep questions that need to be answered.
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AlexHerd
New member
VOXVENDOR said:
Thats like saying "Is a Strat a guitar?"
My question is Is a Truck a car?
Scooter B
Member
As a bass player I voted possibly. When it works in my best interest then YES! When it may not be in my best interest then NO!
I do know this:
When the bass stops playing, the dance floor empties and the band goes home.
It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing or some kind of groove and it don't groove without the bass in some form be it bass guitar, upright or keyboard bass.
I know I am taking this WAY too serious but I am compuslively analytical.
I do know this:
When the bass stops playing, the dance floor empties and the band goes home.
It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing or some kind of groove and it don't groove without the bass in some form be it bass guitar, upright or keyboard bass.
I know I am taking this WAY too serious but I am compuslively analytical.
bongolation
New member
It was never even considered a "bass guitar" until it had been around a decade or two.
The electric bass was originally called a "Fender bass" in official Musician's Union terminology, to signify that it was not a bass or bass guitar, but an electrified upright bass-substitute. When a job came in, that was the instrument called for. When a recording was made, that was how the credit read.
On recordings by hardcore old-timers, you still the the same term in the credits.
No, it's not a guitar nor a bass guitar.
It's Fender bass or electric bass. Anything else is revisionism.
The electric bass was originally called a "Fender bass" in official Musician's Union terminology, to signify that it was not a bass or bass guitar, but an electrified upright bass-substitute. When a job came in, that was the instrument called for. When a recording was made, that was how the credit read.
On recordings by hardcore old-timers, you still the the same term in the credits.
No, it's not a guitar nor a bass guitar.
It's Fender bass or electric bass. Anything else is revisionism.
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Clive Hugh
New member
yeah, but where would we be without it?
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
Bottomless?
philboyd studge
New member
I don't think anything has changed music more that the Fender bass.
Scooter B
Member
Bongolation is absolutely right! Bassplayer Mag had a special 50th anniversary issue of the Fender Bass and Jim Roberts (former editor for Bassplayer and Miller-Freeman publishing ) has a book out now called "How the Fender Bass Changed the World"
Philboyd also touched on that.
I wonder what Leo Fender is building in heaven for those harp playing Angels...... Heaven will never be the same and I bet its rockin.
God bless Leo!
Philboyd also touched on that.
I wonder what Leo Fender is building in heaven for those harp playing Angels...... Heaven will never be the same and I bet its rockin.
God bless Leo!
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langleyt
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The Random House College Dictionary defines a guitar as:
"1. A stringed musical instrument with a long, fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically, six strings, which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. 2. A similar instrument, sometimes having a solid body, with a pickup or pickups and a built-in cable for connecting the instrument to an amplifier."
The only musical definition I found for a bass pertained to the voice, as follows:
"1. The lowest male voice or voice part. 2. A singer with such a voice. 3. See double bass. 4. Of or pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music; having the compass of a bass."
The definition of a double bass:
"The largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, contrabass, string bass."
However a bass (fish) is:
"1. Any of numerous edible, spiny-finned, freshwater or marine fishes of the families Serranidae and Centrarchidae. 2. (originally) the European perch. Perca fluviatilis.
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"1. A stringed musical instrument with a long, fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically, six strings, which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. 2. A similar instrument, sometimes having a solid body, with a pickup or pickups and a built-in cable for connecting the instrument to an amplifier."
The only musical definition I found for a bass pertained to the voice, as follows:
"1. The lowest male voice or voice part. 2. A singer with such a voice. 3. See double bass. 4. Of or pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music; having the compass of a bass."
The definition of a double bass:
"The largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, contrabass, string bass."
However a bass (fish) is:
"1. Any of numerous edible, spiny-finned, freshwater or marine fishes of the families Serranidae and Centrarchidae. 2. (originally) the European perch. Perca fluviatilis.
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langleyt
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Oh yeah, given those definitions I steadfastly voted possibly.
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perhaps we should be asking is a bass a violin?
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perhaps we should be asking is a bass a violin?
Aaron Cheney
Favorite Chord: C 6/9
PowerCouple
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hhhhmmmmm...bass.......
BASS stands for Bitchy Analogue Sounding System?
Peace...
PC
BASS stands for Bitchy Analogue Sounding System?
Peace...
PC
eyeslikefire
I CAN SMELL EM!
A Bass Guitar .... Hmmm
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A Bass Guitar
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matty_boy
New member
If you restrict a bass Guitar from being a guitar because it has four strings, then you might conceivably have to restrict a twelve string. If you restrict it because it creates lower sounds, you may also have to stop calling a baritone guitar a guitar. To avoid all of this confusion, I will say YES, a bass Guitar is a guitar.
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punkrawk101
New member
Of corse
I have a Squier Fat-Strat & lemme tell ya, I turn the tone down & play, you wouldn't know if it's a bass or guitar. I've actually used it as a bass on a song. A bass is a guitar & my guitar can be a bass.
I have a Squier Fat-Strat & lemme tell ya, I turn the tone down & play, you wouldn't know if it's a bass or guitar. I've actually used it as a bass on a song. A bass is a guitar & my guitar can be a bass.
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nealtx
New member
I bought my first electric bass in 1966, and have been playing Rock & Roll professionally, both full time and (lately) part-time, ever since.
Leo Fender invented the first electric bass and sold his first ones in 1950. The tuning is identical to a Bass Viol, the stand-up "Giant Violin" that orchestras have used for over 200 years. The original Fender Precision Bass, still sold today, was called an electric bass. Electric guitars were invented in the '40's, and the tuning interval of a six-string Spanish guitar (which is what six-string guitars are officially" called) is the same as a bass on the 4 lower pitched strings, 3-6, but an octave higher.
In common parlance, an electric bass has come to be called a bass guitar probably because it looks much more like an elecric guitar than an acoustic bass viol. If a musician asks me what I play, the response is, simply, "bass". If a lay person asks me, I automatically say "bass guitar" just so they'll know what I'm talking about.
I just visited Mars Music's website, and electric basses were, indeed, listed under "Bass Guitars". But when you get to an individual istrument, it is simply calle a "bass". In these more modern times, the term "electric" has become understood.
Hope this clears things up.
Neal
Leo Fender invented the first electric bass and sold his first ones in 1950. The tuning is identical to a Bass Viol, the stand-up "Giant Violin" that orchestras have used for over 200 years. The original Fender Precision Bass, still sold today, was called an electric bass. Electric guitars were invented in the '40's, and the tuning interval of a six-string Spanish guitar (which is what six-string guitars are officially" called) is the same as a bass on the 4 lower pitched strings, 3-6, but an octave higher.
In common parlance, an electric bass has come to be called a bass guitar probably because it looks much more like an elecric guitar than an acoustic bass viol. If a musician asks me what I play, the response is, simply, "bass". If a lay person asks me, I automatically say "bass guitar" just so they'll know what I'm talking about.
I just visited Mars Music's website, and electric basses were, indeed, listed under "Bass Guitars". But when you get to an individual istrument, it is simply calle a "bass". In these more modern times, the term "electric" has become understood.
Hope this clears things up.
Neal