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The Importance of a Good Bass Guitar Instrument Cable

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Although cables might appear simple enough, selecting high-quality bass guitar instrument cables can significantly enhance your tone. Cheap cables could compromise the signal that’s coming through your guitar amplifier and cause interference that affects its performance. For optimal performance, the ideal cables utilize oxygen-free copper wire and feature gold-plated contacts on their connectors. Furthermore, these […]

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How Your Bass Guitar Pickup System Affects the Tone of Your Guitar

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Pickup systems have an enormous effect on the tone and performance of a bass guitar. There are different styles and power levels of pickups to consider when selecting the appropriate setup for you. Humbucking pickups employ two coils with opposite magnetic polepieces in order to cancel out ambient mains hum, which would otherwise interfere with

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Pentatonic Blues

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Pentatonic scales, with five notes each, are simplified versions of fuller seven note major and minor scales, making them useful when improvising over either major or minor chord progressions. To achieve the distinctive blues sound, an extra flattened fifth is added to a pentatonic scale to form what’s known as the Blues Scale – creating

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Bass Guitar Anatomy

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No matter your level, understanding the parts of a bass guitar can make learning much simpler and shopping for one less daunting. The headstock houses the tuning machines and often displays the maker’s logo, while the neck connects to the body via fretboard, which contains tiny metal bars known as frets. Headstock The headstock is

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