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Definition of globalisation
The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration.Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. It can be passed on through cultural influences, politics, and trade or from knowledge. -
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Globalisation, the Bass Guitar Evolution.
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The first creater of the Bass guitar, Lloyd Loar
(Born in January 9th, 1886, USA). He would have seen the Acoustic Guitar from Spain on television or on a concert and decided to make the Electric Double Bass Guitar. It was played on while sitting down because it was too big for people to be able to pick it up and play it. -
Paul Tutmarc, invented the first electric bass guitar
In 1930s, there was a change to the music industry; Paul Tutmarc (born in the USA) invented the first Electric Bass guitar (sitting down while played). He was working in a manufacturer for lap steel guitars. People would have talked about Lloyd Loar design and Paul was influenced. -
The first Amplifier, by Wolf and Sunny Boy
In 1939, the music industry changed direction, ‘Wolf and Sunny Boy’ created the first electric amplifier. They would have seen or heard about the Electric bass guitar that Paul developed and decided to make something that could be the speakers of the Electric Guitar. They connected the amplifier in their car, through the power of the battery. Their car was a Ford. This was huge to the music industry and it went global and people would have seen the amplifier on the newspaper or on the TV. -
In 1951, Clarence Leonidas ( Leo Fender) precision bass
Clarence Leonidas (Leo Fender, born in the USA) change the music industry by creating his own design called the Precision Bass. Electric Bass Guitars were everywhere in the USA at that time and Leo Fender would have been influenced and decided to create a better version. -
Playing notes with precision
For the first time in the music industry an Electric Bass Guitar was able to play notes with precision. It was also the first Electric Bass Guitar that allowed the musician to play it while standing up. Fender saw the recent Electric Bass Guitars were played while sitting down and that influenced him to developed on to change the Electric Bass Guitar. -
The first 6 string bass, tunes E A D G B E.
In 1959, there was another change to the industry. Danelectro founded by Nathan Daniel, who was born in New York, USA, but his family was from Lithuania. Danelectro created the first five string electric bass then he created the first 6 string bass, tunes E A D G B E. Him being born in America, he was able to see the Electric Guitars that were made before his and he was infleunced to create one of his own. -
Leo Fender created the Jazz Bass
Bass Guitar Gibson EBIn 1960, there was another change to the music industry. Leo Fender created the Jazz Bass and later that year Gibson and Fender used Danelectro’s idea to make the Gibson EB-6. -
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People who popularised the Bass Guitar.
After Carl Thompsons design creation, there wasn’t much change to the music industry. There were people who just popularised bass, below are those people who popularised the Bass Guitar:
• John Entwistle- 60s
• James Jamerson-60s
• Jaco Pastorious-70s
• Stanley Clarke -70s
• Marcus Miller-80s
• Cliff Burton-80s -
Fender's other instrucments
Fender VI -
Fender V
Leo Fender created the Fender V. Him being infleunced by his recent designs, he wanted to keep on upgrading his designs. -
first five string Bass
In 1965, there was a new change to the music industry, and of course it was Fender, with his new first Five String Bass. -
The first fretless Bass Aubi.
Everett Hull, a pianist and bassist, and Stanley Michaels (owners of Ampeg) made a change to the music industry by designing the first fretless Bass Aubi. By reading this, it sounds like they are going backwards. -
Eight string bass
In 1967, Hagstoem also decided to change the music industry by designing an Eight String Bass. Founded by Albin Hagström, born in Stockholm, Sweden. Him seeing the Spanish Acoustic Guitar in Europe where this all began, is highly the reason that why he created that 8 String Bass. -
There was not much change after the first 6-String Fretless Bass
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The first fretless 6-string bass
In 1978, the music industry changed again but by the sounds of it, it’s going backwards again. The first Fretless 6-String Bass Guitar came in by Carl Thompson and later owned by Les Claypool. At this time in the music industry, pickups were becoming more varied because of the different playing styles like slap and pop, and the number of string and combinations like wood and neck, etc. -
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The conclusion
From the points I made, you can see that globalisation had a huge affect on the music industry. Without globalisation there wouldn’t be any Electric Bass Guitars.
