![]() The more crowded a space gets, the more the instruments need to work together. If you play high and they play low, you'll be crowding the same frequency range and the sound of the whole band will turn to mush. ![]() However, it can really depend on the style of music or the particular player.Īs a bassist, you need to be mindful of these other instruments. Though many non-bass instruments can play in their lower range, they're not down there all of the time. While the fundamental range of the bass extends up to around 400Hz, most bass playing occurs with fundamentals below that between 40Hz and 200Hz. This doesn't mean they all overlap all of the time-it just means they can potentially overlap. Looking at the chart above, you'll notice a lot of overlap of fundamentals with drums, keyboards, guitar and male singers. I made you a little graphic so you can see the frequency range of the bass and how it compares to some other popular instruments with which you'll play: It's good to have a grasp of these numbers. Why do you need to memorize that? Well, these numbers will come up in different places like on amps, effects pedals, recording equipment, and gear manuals. The fundamentals range from about 40 to 400 Hertz the harmonics go all the way to 4000Hz. Here's an easy way you can remember the basic frequency range of the bass: 40Hz-400Hz-4000Hz. Bass guitar overtones continue all the way up to around 4000Hz (4kHz) to 5000Hz (5kHz). Six-string basses, with an added high C-string, go up 5 more notes to a C on the 24th fret whose fundamental is 523Hz. 5-string and 6-string basses, which commonly have low B-strings, go down to 31Hz. 5-String and 6-String Fundamental Rangeīasses with more strings have a wider fundamental range. The high G (24th fret of the G-string) = 392Hz. ![]() The common high D# (20th fret of the G-string) = 311Hz. The fundamental range of a 4-string bass goes from about 40Hz to 400Hz. The fundamental range refers to the pure note range-not the upper harmonics. As you would expect, the bass covers the low side of of this frequency spectrum. ![]() So far, we've discussed how humans can hear from about 20Hz to 16kHz (20kHz at birth). In this article we'll look more specifically at the frequency range of the bass and where it fits in among other popular instruments. You learned that most instruments don't produce simple pure tones, instead they produce a complex tone made up of a fundamental tone and many overtones. In the last article of this series we discussed the harmonic series and musical tone. ![]()
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