Electric bass: Difference between revisions
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">The electric bass has been occasionally used in microtonal music. Contemporary classical composers often obtained unusual sounds or instrumental timbres through the use of | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">The electric bass has been occasionally used in microtonal music. Contemporary classical composers often obtained unusual sounds or instrumental timbres through the use of overtone- and sliding techniques. As such, bass guitarists playing microtonal music may be instructed to tune the instrument in unusual ways. </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">As</span> mentioned on the page 'microtonal bowed strings', there are <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">two important tools in making microtonal string music work on fretless bass, scordatura and fingerboard marking.</span> | ||
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">1. Scordatura: If you're going to be using the traditional notation system or a variant of it, specify that the strings be tuned to the scale system in question's versions of A, D G, etc. to give the players familiar notational home bases to work from. Try to make the scordatura somewhat distant from the correct pitches for maximum effect, however, because broken-in string instruments "ring" for the notes they play often (in 12), and the scordatura will have the effect of disorienting the string player's instinctual seeking of the resonance.</span> | <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">1. Scordatura: If you're going to be using the traditional notation system or a variant of it, specify that the strings be tuned to the scale system in question's versions of A, D G, etc. to give the players familiar notational home bases to work from. Try to make the scordatura somewhat distant from the correct pitches for maximum effect, however, because broken-in string instruments "ring" for the notes they play often (in 12), and the scordatura will have the effect of disorienting the string player's instinctual seeking of the resonance.</span> | ||
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">The electric bass has been occasionally used in microtonal music. Contemporary classical composers often obtained unusual sounds or instrumental timbres through the use of | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">The electric bass has been occasionally used in microtonal music. Contemporary classical composers often obtained unusual sounds or instrumental timbres through the use of overtone- and sliding techniques. As such, bass guitarists playing microtonal music may be instructed to tune the instrument in unusual ways. </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif;">As</span> mentioned on the page 'microtonal bowed strings', there are <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">two important tools in making microtonal string music work on fretless bass, scordatura and fingerboard marking.</span><br /> | ||
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">1. Scordatura: If you're going to be using the traditional notation system or a variant of it, specify that the strings be tuned to the scale system in question's versions of A, D G, etc. to give the players familiar notational home bases to work from. Try to make the scordatura somewhat distant from the correct pitches for maximum effect, however, because broken-in string instruments &quot;ring&quot; for the notes they play often (in 12), and the scordatura will have the effect of disorienting the string player's instinctual seeking of the resonance.</span><br /> | <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">1. Scordatura: If you're going to be using the traditional notation system or a variant of it, specify that the strings be tuned to the scale system in question's versions of A, D G, etc. to give the players familiar notational home bases to work from. Try to make the scordatura somewhat distant from the correct pitches for maximum effect, however, because broken-in string instruments &quot;ring&quot; for the notes they play often (in 12), and the scordatura will have the effect of disorienting the string player's instinctual seeking of the resonance.</span><br /> | ||