Each combination has specific tonal characteristics, interaction with pickups, and "feel" to the player's hands.
Tenor bass is a tuning used by Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, and Stu Hamm.
A seven-string bass (B0–E1–A1–D2–G2–C3–F3) was built by luthier Michael Tobias in 1987 for bassist Garry Goodman.
[citation needed] To allow for the raised tuning, the strings are thinner, and the length of the neck (the scale) may be shorter.
Several companies manufacture "piccolo" string sets that, with a different nut, can be put on any regular bass.
A bass guitarist tuning his instrument.
Notation for notes of a 6 strings bass guitar; black notes are those of a 4-strings bass
Tuning machines (with spiral metal
worm gears
) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck
Note positions on a right-handed four-string bass in standard E–A–D–G tuning (from lowest-pitched string to the highest-pitched string, shown in
sharps
), shown up to the 12th fret, where the pattern repeats. The dots below the frets are often inlaid into the wood of bass necks, as a visual aid to help the player find different positions.
Note positions on a right-handed five-string bass in standard B–E–A–D–G tuning (from lowest-pitched string to the highest-pitched string, shown in
flats
), shown up to the 12th fret, where the pattern repeats. The dots below the frets are often inlaid into the wood of bass necks, as a visual aid to help the player find different positions.
