Hello & welcome to my Bass Space.

I've been surrounded by musicians my entire life and I was introduced to all sorts of instrments growing up. I first thought I was going to be a six string guitar player who rocked the house with my riffs and solos that would open rifts in the time space continuum. Or cause the earth to shake and the heavens vibrate with the thump of my bass. The dreams were big, the practice was little.

So, after many many years of letting my bass gather dust. I decided to pick up it and see what I could play. Lucky for me I still have lots musicians who call me friend and give me free lessons. Now I play bass as much as I can for fun & have been asked to sit in with some friends which is a true honor.

The History of the Bass Guitar

As a child, Tutmarc sang in a church choir. As pre-teen, he sang and played guitar and banjo, and in his teens, he played Hawaiian-style acoustic steel guitar. He worked with a traveling vaudeville troupe. In his early 20s, Tutmarc moved to Seattle to work in the dock-area shipyards. In the mid-1920s, Tutmarc became known for his tenor voice. In the late 1920s, he performed on the radio and in a variety of theaters. In the very early 1930s, Tutmarc began teaching guitar and experimenting with the electrification (and amplification) of various instruments including a piano, zither, and a Spanish-style guitar by using a wire-wrapped magnet as a "pickup" that could be amplified through a modified Atwater-Kent brand radio. Tutmarc's Audiovox Manufacturing Co. was one of the first firms to produce an electric lap steel guitar, and Tutmarc himself was often the demonstrator and promoter. He invented a solid-body electric upright "bull-fiddle" in 1935 but it mainly served as a publicity tool. He manufactured lap steel guitars with his own "blade" pickup, and accompanying amplifiers. His real claim-to-fame was the development and marketing of the fretted and solid-body Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle, from 1936, which was designed to be used in a horizontal position. That then-radical instrument is considered to be history's earliest electric bass guitar—and one that preceded the far more famous Fender Precision Bass by a decade and a half.[2] Tutmarc also manufactured an accompanying bass amplifier, the Audiovox Model 936.

The first electric bass guitar was "invented" by Leo Fender and marketed in the United States at the beginning of the 1950s. This model became the popular and commercialized version of the electric bass guitar that became widely used in 20th-century music. Historically, there are two types of bass guitars. The solid-body electric bass guitar and an acoustic version with a hollow body. The electric bass has heavy strings and is tuned to a low pitch. Before the creation of the bass guitar we know today, bands would rely on a massive, double bass instrument that looks similar to a cello. The double bassist was a popular instrument that originated during the 15th century in Europe. These were hard to transport and were too quiet for certain genres to achieve the sound they were looking for. Because of the need for a louder instrument with a lower pitch that could compete with the electric guitar, the bass guitar was born and rapidly gained popularity across all genres of music.