Editing Guitar (section)

====Electric bass ====
{{Main|Bass guitar}}
[[File:Hofner 500-1 Anniversary('61CavernBass)RH.jpg|thumb|418x418px|The [[Höfner 500/1]] bass guitar is famous for being the primary bass used by [[Paul McCartney]] since the early 1960s]]
The bass guitar (also called an "electric bass", or simply a "bass") is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and [[Scale length (string instruments)|scale length]], and four to six strings. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is usually tuned the same as the [[double bass]], which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest pitched strings of a guitar (E, A, D, and G). The bass guitar is a [[transposing instrument]], as it is notated in [[bass clef]] an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive [[ledger line]]s being required below the [[Staff (music)|staff]]. Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar has [[pickup (music technology)|pickups]] and it is plugged into an [[Bass instrument amplification|amplifier and speaker]] for live performances.