Bass guitar tuning refers to the pitch adjustments carried out on the individual strings of an electric bass in order to achieve a prescribed arrangement of notes on the open (unfretted) strings.
The electric bass is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, popping or using a pick. The bass is typically similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale length, and four strings tuned one octave lower in pitch than the bass strings of a guitar. The fretted electric bass is an equal temperament musical instrument, in which the octave is divided into a series of equal steps.
Standard tuning
Standard tuning is the most popular tuning of the electric bass. Most bass guitars have four strings, tuned one octave lower than the lowest (in terms of pitch) four strings of an electric guitar.[1] However some bassists, such as Michael Manring, use a variety of altered tunings. [2]
