http://bass-soup.com Bass Guitar all the time! Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:14:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Schecter Stiletto Custom-5 Bass has a variety of features for the modern Bass-Guitarist – The guitar features a mahogany body with figured maple together with a multi-laminate maple/walnut neck with a rosewood fingerboard featuring 22 jumbo frets. The guitar has quality grover tuners that offer a nice ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=33 The Deluxe Zone bass uses the popular P/J (Precison Bass/Jazz Bass) pickup configuration which produces a powerful and versatile guitar. Alnico magnets in the Precision pickup (neck) provide an articulate response and the Jazz pickup in the bridge is a fully customized version of Fender's Deluxe Active Jazz Bass pickup; Alnico ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=32 The Tokai Guitars Company are a Japanese guitar manufacturer based in both Japan and Korea (Korea is used for their low end guitars) – they’ve been around for over 50 years but became popular during the 70’s and 80’s making quality guitars aimed at those on a budget – Over ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=31 Major Scales The notes that are associated with a given key are called a scale. There are great many number of different scales (both harmonic scales and scales in different ""song keys"" One of the easiest scales to begin to play is the major key scale. For example C major. ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=29 One of the most important things about playing any instrument is to make sure that it’s in tune – the two most common problems for most musicians is playing in time and playng in tune – the latter can be easily solved.Traditionally the Bass Guitar has four strings and these ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=28 The Importance of Practicing With a MetronomeBy Adrian Martin Musicians are often criticized for two things, playing out of tune and playing out of time. Both of these can have catastrophic results for your audience and the rest of your band! The good news is that help is ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=27 Bass Guitar TablaturesBy Thomas Morva A guitar tab is a system of notations, letters, symbols and other visual representations - instead of the traditional musical notation. Guitar tabs give directions to the player as to how to play a musical piece through a diagram of strings of the guitar. Tablature consists of ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=26 Fender's American Jazz Bass guitar features the innovative S-1™ switching system, which gives you great Jazz Bass and Precsion Bass guitar tones from one instrument. Pushing the S-1 switch reconfigures the pickup wiring from parallel to series, resulting in a fatter, almost humbucking sound similar to that of a Precision. Other ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=23 The American Series Precision Bass fitted with the new S-1™ switching system results in an extremely versatile bass that gives players an array of cool new sounds. Features include a solid alder or ash body (depending on color) and graphite-reinforced, modern C-shaped maple neck with satin polyurethane finish (available with ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=22 The Fender Precision bass guitar is one of the most influential instruments ever made. In celebration of their 60th year Fender have recently released the Series 60th Anniversary Precision Bass guitar. The instrument has an alder body with a Three-color Sunburst finish, a graphite-reinforced modern C-shaped maple neck coupled with ... http://bass-soup.com/?p=17