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    Extended Techniques For Bass Guitar - Summary Sheet: by Philip Langshaw (z5316375)

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    This document provides an overview of extended techniques for the bass guitar. It discusses the brief history of the bass guitar's invention in the 1930s and commercialization in the 1950s. It then explores how innovators in the 1960s-70s, such as Jaco Pastorius, developed new techniques like harmonics that treated the bass as a melodic instrument. These techniques were later combined by players like Billy Sheehan. The document also summarizes specific extended techniques like harmonics, false harmonics, chords, and tapping that expand the bass guitar's musical possibilities.

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    This document provides an overview of extended techniques for the bass guitar. It discusses the brief history of the bass guitar's invention in the 1930s and commercialization in the 1950s. It then explores how innovators in the 1960s-70s, such as Jaco Pastorius, developed new techniques like harmonics that treated the bass as a melodic instrument. These techniques were later combined by players like Billy Sheehan. The document also summarizes specific extended techniques like harmonics, false harmonics, chords, and tapping that expand the bass guitar's musical possibilities.

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    This document provides an overview of extended techniques for the bass guitar. It discusses the brief history of the bass guitar's invention in the 1930s and commercialization in the 1950s. It then explores how innovators in the 1960s-70s, such as Jaco Pastorius, developed new techniques like harmonics that treated the bass as a melodic instrument. These techniques were later combined by players like Billy Sheehan. The document also summarizes specific extended techniques like harmonics, false harmonics, chords, and tapping that expand the bass guitar's musical possibilities.

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    Extended Techniques for Bass

    Guitar - Summary Sheet


    By Philip Langshaw (z5316375)

    Introduction
    - In comparison to the vast majority of popular instruments that exist today, the electric bass
    guitar has a very concise and short history. Being such a new instrument lent to its rapid
    technical advancement in the 1960’s and 70’s
    A Brief History of the Bass Guitar
    - Invented in the 1930’s by Paul Tutmarc (Froncek, T. 2011. Pg 95)
    - First commercially available model invented by Leo Fender (Brun, P. 2001. Pg 70)
    - “Precision” Bass in 1951
    - Revolutionary for gigging musicians (Dowell, P. 2012. Pg 4-6)
    - Developed as a hybrid of Double Bass and Guitar (Dowell, P. 2012. Pg 4-6)

    Innovators & The Culmination


    - Due to the electric basses relatively recent invention compared to the double; the addition of
    amplification and electric effects opened up a large degree of potential for the instrument.
    - In the years following its commercialisation by Leo Fender, the bass was innovated by many
    prodigious players who stood out through their use of unusual techniques for the time.
    - E.g. Jaco Pastorius → Harmonics to imply chords and create melodies
    - These advanced techniques were combined by newer players in the years following
    - E.g. (The writer of this piece) Billy Sheehan
    - Using these combined techniques, these players were able to create advanced solo
    bass compositions that incorporated harmony, melody and obviously a bassline all
    from the same instrument.
    Harmonics
    - Harmonics are a popular extended bass technique (popularised by Jaco Pastorius) that were
    originally used to tune the instrument. They can extend the range and when plucked correctly
    can produce chords that are difficult to play by just fingering alone. (Froncek, T. 2011. Pg 43)
    False Harmonics
    - Similarly, false harmonics extend the range of the instrument by isolating an overtone from a
    plucked string. This can be done by tapping the string, pinching it with your thumb and index
    and pulling off with your fretting hand.
    Chords
    - Bass chords are simplistic due to the limit of four note voicings on the instrument. However,
    this encourages guide tones in voicings which contain more of the foundation of the harmony.
    Tapping
    - Tapping involves pressing down and pulling off on the fretboard with the right hand. It can
    help to extend chords or create melodies independent of the other hand
    Continuum Performance & Conclusion
    - In this performance I seek to demonstrate the application of all these extended techniques to
    showcase the progression of the electric bass since its invention.
    Bibliography
    (1) Froncek, T. (2011). The Electric Bass: Its Origins and Influence on the Evolution of Jazz and
    the Development of Contemporary Music. Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts. Accessed:
    https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/sss/87
    (2) Dowell, P. (2012). The Impact of Technology & The Role and Impact of the Bass in Jazz.
    University of Adelaide. Accessed:
    https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/109819/7/02whole.pdf
    (3) Brun, P. (2001). A New History [of the] Double Bass. American String Teacher, 51(1), 66–70.
    Accessed https://doi.org/10.1177/000313130105100110

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