Bass guitar tuning refers to the pitch adjustments carried out on the individual strings of a bass guitar in order to achieve a prescribed arrangement of notes on the open (unfretted) strings.
The electric bass guitar (or "electric bass") is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, popping or using a pick. The bass is typically similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale length, and four strings tuned one octave lower in pitch than the bass strings of a guitar. The bass guitar is an equal temperament musical instrument, in which the octave is divided into a series of equal steps.
Standard tuning is the most popular tuning of the bass guitar. Most bass guitars have four strings, tuned one octave lower than those of a regular guitar. |
