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jesusonguitar489
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Hi! A pretty stupid question, but what do you inperticularly call it?
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hummin9bird
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its called a bass guitar and a bassist is the person who plays it,some basic information: a bass guitar has only 4 strings tuned to E A D G which r all low or flat notes compared to a guitar, the bass cleff is used in bass guitar notation -unlike the treble cleff used for standard guitar notations -. bass guitar is considered easier to play than a guitar once u develop dextirity for it but the fact that u play only bass notes makes a bassist second to a guitarist a bassist doesnot lead the song .. or play rythm!!
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it is written bass but pronounced base btw
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jesusonguitar489
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Thank you,hummin9bird. Your information was informing. I'm well aquanted with the bass. I've been playing for about 2 years and guitar for 7. But my real question is, is it really necisary to add the guitar? I know alot of other professional bassist who only refer to it as a bass. Thank you, though.
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StrikeTheLyres
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Yes, there is a distinction, the bass is considered the double bass in classical terms. The guitar designation indicates the instrument is fretted and not played in an upright fashion with a bow typically (although pizzicato is common in jazz, folk and country circles). While there are bass guitars that are fretless as both acoustic and electric (and acoustic/electric combinations) they are not considered double basses. Musically they share the same lineage, but mechanically they evolved from different instruments.
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Scotch
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| But my real question is, is it really necisary to add the guitar? |
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Or, to put it another way, it isn't necessary to append guitar in a context where it can be reasonably assumed to be understood; in other contexts it is necessary.
(Besides the double bass, there are also bass trombones, bass clarinets, and so on.)
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jesusonguitar489
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Good point Scotch! Most of the time I'm talking about music is at my school's after school rock club, and when someone mentions bass, it usually refer to the bass guitar. There are no woodwinds in rock club. In other places, it would probably be more proper to add the guitar.
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StrikeTheLyres
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There is one historical oddball worth mentioning. It's not technically part of the bass family but has aspects of multiple instruments. It's called the arpeggione. It is tuned like a guitar and fretted like a viol but played with a bow like a cello. It's been out of favor for more than a century but Schubert wrote some things for it. It is a cousin of the bass viola da gamba . There aren't many of these beasts around and I think a luthier would charge quite a pretty penny to make one for you.
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