What is the different between in those Lead guitar and bass guitar?

Answer 1

Well Lead guitar is a guitar that is a 6 string standard guitar often used for up front lead sounds. The Bass Guitar has a much lower sound and only has four strings. Bass Guitars are mostly used for rythm and deap low sounds.

Answer 2

There's a HUGE difference. Actually, the only thing they have in common is their shape. So, a 'bass guitar' is not very good name. 'Bass' or 'base' is much better.

The differences are:

- Bass has much lower tone and it's specialized for playing bass line while the guitar's tone is higher.

- Guitar has usually got 6 strings (2 kinda low, 2 medium and 2 kinda high), meanwhile bass has 4 or 5 (they are all low).

- The playing style is very different. If you play bass, you have to play one note at a time, but when you play guitar, you can strum (play with chords - that means you can play up to six notes at a time), do 'arpeggios' (play with chords but picking one note at the time - not using a strumming technique) or play riffs, licks and solos (those are usually based on a scale, so you have to move your both hands all of the time (while strumming or playing an arpeggio, you generally move just your right hand))

- The guitar is also more rhythmical (when strumming).

- Guitar is more universal, bass is more specialized.

Bass: http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=oWyHDXNro3Q

Guitar while strumming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hDTDpTqMvs

Answer 3

Bass guitars have four strings, while guitars have six.

Bass guitars have thicker strings and a longer neck (34" versus the guitar's 24" neck), which allows them to play an octave lower than the guitar.

Bass usually plays the "bassline" of a song, and the guitar usually plays either the chords to a song or the melody, or both.

Because bass only really plays basslines, it only plays one note at a time, whereas the guitar plays more notes at a time (up to six).

With guitar, you can easily play solo and sing along because of its ability to play chords. Because a bass is limited to only one or a few notes at a time, it is difficult to play solo and sing along with while maintaining a "full" sound.

Bass is overall easier to learn than guitar. But there are usually a lot more Guitarists available in the music world.

Answer 4

The notes a bass guitar plays are lower than a regular guitar. A bass guitar also usually plays the harmony or the beat in a song played by a band, while the regular guitar plays the melody.