Bass guitar parts are the parts that make up a bass guitar. At the bottom of the guitar is the saddle, bridge and tailpiece. This is where the metal strings are set. To the right is the input jack where an amplifier is plugged in. Next to the input jack are the knobs for volume and tone control. The magnetic pickups are usually on the body of the guitar and their function is to capture mechanical vibrations. Underneath the strings on the body of the guitar is a pick guard. Its purpose is to protect the body's finish from being scratched by the pick. The neck of the guitar is the long thin section up from the body and contains the frets, which are raised metal strips that move horizontally across the neck. At the end of the guitar is the headstock, which contains the string tension guide and tuning heads.http://funkychops.com/bass-guitar-parts/anatomy-of-electric-bass-guitar.htm

At the beginning of the Renaissance, a guitar with four pairs of strings was dominant in Europe. In the 16th century the five course guitar known as the guitarra battente appeared in Italy and replaced the four course guitar. The five course guitar from Antonio Stradivarius became popular in the late 1600's. A feature of the early guitars was the small number of frets. They had 8 frets which later became 10 and then 12 frets per guitar.

In the 17th century a sixth course was added to guitars and that gradually gave way to the six string guitar. At the beginning of the 19th century, the modern guitar started to take shape. The bodies were still small but Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres increased the size of the body and changed the overall proportions of the guitar in 1850. The changes allowed for improved volume and tone of the guitar.

Around 1900 steel strings became widely used and early 1920's Lloyd Loar refined the jazz guitar into the form with f-holes. Later in that decade, pickups were added to Hawaiian and jazz guitars. There was little success to this addition to the guitar before Orville Gibson introduced the ES150 model in 1936.http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/BriefHistory.html

In the early 1940's, Leo Fender, made guitars and amplifiers and was working on an amplifier with no controls and a steel guitar with tone and volume controls. In 1948 he designed the first solid body electric Spanish style guitar called the Telecaster.http://www.guitarsite.com/history.htm

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1. Bass Guitar Parts
2. How to Hold a Bass Guitar
3. How to Pluck a Bass Guitar
4. How to Play an A Note on Bass Guitar
5. How to Play an A Sharp on Bass Guitar
6. How to Play a B Note on Bass Guitar
7. How to Play a C Note on Bass Guitar
8. How to Play a C Sharp Note on Bass Guitar
9. How to Play a D Note on Bass Guitar
10. How to Play a D Sharp Note on Bass Guitar
11. How to Play an E Note on Bass Guitar
12. How to Play an F Note on Bass Guitar
13. How to Play an F Sharp Note on Bass Guitar
14. How to Play a G Note on Bass Guitar
15. How to Play a G Sharp Note on Bass Guitar