It stands to reason the more strings you have under your fingers, the more notes you have within your immediate grasp, meaning we don’t have to move our hands around the neck as much.ĥ-string bass guitars exploded in popularity during the 80’s thanks to the advent of Electronic Music. More range means being able to play lower and/or higher pitched notes. The main reason for adding a 5th string is to add more range to the bass. The 5-string B-E-A-D-G tuned bass we are familiar with today was created by Jimmy Johnson as a custom instrument in 1975. The Fender Bass V used the E–A–D–G–C tuning, but proved unpopular and was discontinued soon thereafter in 1970. The earliest 5-string bass guitar was created by Fender in 1965. So why the need for a 5 string bass guitar? For decades only 4-string electric basses were available, and a wide array of music has been recorded on the instrument since. However, very few musicians were interested in the instrument that Tutmarc made, and the market for an electric bass wasn’t there until the 1950s, when Fender popularized the instrument. The first electric basses came with four strings, and were produced back in the 1930s by Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington. Years ago, 5-strings purely seemed to be the domain of funk and metal players looking for extended range, but in recent times we’ve seen a swathe of rock and pop musicians gravitate towards the instrument, which is slowly becoming as commonplace as its 4-string counterpart.
It seems these days that most bass guitar manufacturers like ESP Guitars, Ibanez and Fender are producing 5-string bass guitars, so it seems logical there are a lot more bassists playing them.
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