Electric Bass

The bass gultar (also called electric bass, or simplybass) is a stringed instrument played primarlly with the fingers or thumb ( by fingering slapping , popping,  tapping, or thumping), or by using a pick, The bass guitar is stmllar in appearance and construction to a hollow body electric bass, but witn a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings. The four-string bass by far the most common is usually tuned the same as the double bass,[5] which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lower strings of a guitart (E,A,D,and G).