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Bass Guitar

Also known as the electric bass or just “bass”, the Bass Guitar is a musical instrument invented by Seattle based musician, Paul Tutmarc on 1930, and Leo Fender, who made the first successful Bass Guitar on 1951 with the Fender Precision Bass. The bass guitar was built similarly to a guitar, but made to replace the the Double Bass, or Upright Bass.
The Bass uses pickups, magnets that detects the vibration of bass’s thick string, and transmit them into the Amp to produce deep sound. This is done by plucking the strings with your fingers, or picking them.
The Bass plays an important role in music. Connecting the drums to the treble and providing a rhythmic foundation to the rest of the members.

This and it’s versatility gave birth to many new playing techniques and variations of the bass, many of them caused bassist’s wallets to go dry.
The Bass Guitar cemented itself in western music and, to this day, is important to many genres of music.
Virgin: oh woaaow nice guitar, play wonderwall!

Chad: oh nice bass guitar, can you play Jaco?
by veekeev January 22, 2022
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electric guitar

"Hi. How to make an electric guitar? Well I don't know. But from the name of it, it's just a combination of guitar and electricity."
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NPC Guitarist

A guitarist that will have no legacy as a guitar player in the music scene.

Mainly a bedroom/studio guitarist that makes content for his or hers Instagram or YouTube account to get clout for there own fake ego.

Struggles to form bands with people due to there inflated ego and bad attitude towards other musicians.

These npc guitar players are mainly guitar "shredders" that like to "play fast" and think there's nobody at there level. But they can't even do a perfect song structure for a song.
Hey bro" did ya see that aswome guitarist vid I sent ya on insta"

Yeah bro "but he is just a npc guitarist"
by shizzy nips November 28, 2022
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Air Guitar Syndrome

When your diabetic neuropathy acts up to a point where your hand shakes like an air guitar.
After rage quitting a cod match Richard's air guitar syndrome came out to a point where he played thunderstruck.. after he would sniff his fingers and ate wendy's chili.
by TheZomLex January 10, 2023
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me gusta la caca

A average person would say that it means "i like poop" but it actually means you look good so you could say that to a mexican mom and maybe they can give you some tamales or a really good treat.
Julie:oh my god me gusta la caca.

Maria: oh my gosh thank you.
by cartooncat is the best :) March 7, 2023
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pass the guitar

you talk to much!! let the others speak
me. man, calm down! pass the guitar
other. yeah we had listen you all night
him. ok, sorry
by da shrink December 3, 2007
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12-String Acoustic Guitar

A guitar that has 12 strings, 3 bass strings, 3 tenor strings, and 6 octave strings that pair with each string. Each octave string is tuned to the same key as it's other string, but also remain an octave higher. They create a rich and powerful sound that pairs good with loud and forceful singing, and is commonly used by buskers and professional performers. All tunings of course work with these, but the common and most effective tunings are standard tuning, and are commonly tuned to key of D, C, and B, tuning.
A famous and very talented performer, Lead Belly, used a 12-string acoustic guitar as his signature instrument, and usually had his guitar tuned to Standard B tuning for a wide range of songs and notes. He one of the most influential guitar players, and introduced many people to the 12-string.
by Ryuhou96 March 30, 2015
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