Scientists develop revolutionary new bass guitar strings because the ones you’re using at the moment may be holding you back from Stardom !!!
The bass is often seen as a poor man’s guitar for those that can’t quite stretch to buying the extra two strings that come with a regular six-string guitar and some people (proper guitarists but never drummers) even say it’s a simpletons version of a guitar for muso wannabees who might mentally struggle with thinking about the six strings on a guitar rather than the four on a bass.
This has made it an instrument that often takes second fiddle to the lead guitar in the Rock God stakes, despite being played by some of the most famous and talented musicians on the planet.
But now with the help of Scotch drinking Scottish scientists things may be about to change.
Dr. Kemp and his cohorts at the Music Centre of the University of St Andrews’ School of Physics and Astronomy (yeah far out man) think their time has come to receive the praise they deserve.
How can this discriminatory barrier be overcome?
Well it’s not by being a better musician or crafting your art so chill.
I’ll tell you how it’s by creating revolutionary new bass guitar strings using fresh construction techniques that allow you to take the righteous instrument to places that previous performers were unable to reach, until now in a tonal sense (wow cosmic man). I’m taking myself into wanting some, now!
According to the burb behind the science of the strings, the new bass strings will allow bassists to play higher notes that sound more harmonious than ever before.
Dr. Kemp’s previous research has included developing electric guitar strings (glad I’m not paying his wages) which allow chord bends to be achieved that were not previously possible on standard electric guitars, such as Strats and Les Pauls. Wow, more bending!
Dr. Kemp, an accomplished noodler himself, said: “Normal bass guitar strings can be played far up the neck. But the lowest pitch strings sound bad and are poor at harmonizing with higher notes” and “my new strings allow for improved tone when playing high up the neck of the instrument.”
Dr. Kemps crazy string obsessed dudes used a technique known as “lumped construction” and he states “It has only been applied to piano strings before.”
According to the Scottish scientists’ low-end theory in a study that has been published in SN Applied Sciences, bass guitar strings are “inharmonic” when fretted high up the neck (don’t tell Jaco) and that by producing thicker strings allows for greater harmonic content as well as improved pitch.
Dr. Kemp, who sells electric guitars online (you don’t say) and his colleagues, found making them thicker produces a string with much greater harmony? It also improved pitch (because normal bass strings are known for pitch problems apparently).
They believe it will change the musical landscape.
So there you go.
Bassists your time has come!
Why waste your time with hours of boring practice just buy some new magic bass guitar strings and you’ll be a harmonious Bass God in no time.
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