Bass facts for kids

Bass or Basses may mean:

Music and other sound

• Low frequency part of the sound spectrum (see also Low Frequency Effects, (LFE))
• Bass (sound), describing bass in terms of tone and musicality

Musical instruments

• Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument
• Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass
• Bass guitar, generally with a solid body
• Acoustic bass guitar, with a hollow body
• Bass drum, a large drum
• Tuba, often called "the bass" in the context of brass instruments
• Bass clarinet a clarinet with a lower sound
• Bass cornett, a low pitched wind instrument
• Bass flute, an instrument one octave lower than a flute
• Bass sarrusophone, a low pitched double reed instrument
• Bass saxophone

Musical genres

• Drum and bass, a type of electronic dance music
• Miami bass, a type of hip hop music
• Ghettotech, or Detroit Bass, a form of electronic dance music
• Techno Bass, a blend of Miami bass and Detroit techno
• Drill 'n bass, a form of electronic dance music

Other musical areas

• Bass (vocal range), a male singer who sings in the deepest vocal range
• Figured bass, a kind of integer musical notation
• F clef or bass clef
• Bass note, the lowest note in a chord
• Bassline, an instrumental part which is in the bass range
• "Basses", is the third movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album

People with the surname Bass

• Bass (surname)

Places

• Bass Rock, wildlife sanctuary off the coast of Scotland
• Bass, Victoria, a town in Australia
• Division of Bass, a federal electoral division, in Australia
• Division of Bass (state), state electoral division, in Australia
• Bass Strait, in Australia
• Bass Pyramid, island in Bass Strait
• Basses, Vienne a Commune of the Vienne department in France
• Bass, West Virginia
• Bass River (disambiguation)

Other

• Bass (fish), various freshwater and saltwater species
• Bass (beer), a British brand of beer
• Beneath a Steel Sky, a videogame
• Bass diffusion model, a mathematical marketing model
• Bass (Mega Man), a character in the video game Mega Man
• Bass Armstrong, a character from the video game Dead or Alive
• G. H. Bass, a shoemaker, especially of loafers
• Bass Anglers Sportsmen Society (B.A.S.S.)

See also

In Spanish: Bass para niños