| In order to understand just how to make bass | | | | kind of a mouthful of a number to use to verbally |
| guitars with frets, which play in tune, you have to | | | | explain this aspect of how to make a bass guitar's |
| make a bass with a certain bit of knowledge in | | | | frets to be in their proper places, but it's close |
| mind. There's a little bit of a mathematical trick to | | | | enough to 18, thus the name of the rule. This is |
| it, but the formula for it is very easy to know | | | | the number you will be using as the main |
| and understand. Once you learn to keep it in mind, | | | | calculator of fret placements. |
| you can pretty much make a bass or any guitar | | | | Using this number to find out how to make bass |
| with the frets in the proper place for precise | | | | guitar fret placements known, you first measure |
| tuning, and this is the most important thing. After | | | | the distance between the nut (otherwise also |
| all, you can make the most beautiful instrument in | | | | known as the "zero fret") at the base of the |
| the world, but if it sounds like crap, then it's junk, | | | | head stock, and the bridge on the body of the |
| plain and simple. Would you like to know what this | | | | guitar. This is the "effective length" of the strings, |
| mathematical formula is? | | | | the free vibrating area of their lengths. Now take |
| The trick to knowing how to make bass guitar | | | | this measurement and divide by 17.8167942, and |
| frets to be in the proper place calls for a little rule | | | | you'll have the distance from the nut to the first |
| known as the "18 rule". This is used to make | | | | fret. Now that that's found, you then measure |
| guitar frets to be put into the proper positions for | | | | from that first fret to the bridge, and divide by |
| the best tuning on basic acoustic, electric or bass | | | | 17.8167942 again, and you'll have the distance |
| guitars. Basically, you just keep one number in | | | | from the first fret to the second, and so on, and |
| mind - write this down... 17.8167942. Now, this is | | | | so on, and there you have it - the 18 rule! |