Chords for Precision vs Jazz Basses: Early Vintage vs American Professional Series | Reverb Shootout Demo

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_ [D] Hey, this is Jeremy Kay from Reverb.com, and [Dm] I'm super excited today to talk to you about
Fender [Bb] Precision Bass versus Fender Jazz Bass.
Most iconic, classic, most used basses of all time.
These basses really could be used for any style of music.
I think if you could choose one bass that was your desert island bass for the rest of
your career, you could basically flip a coin between the P bass and the jazz bass and be totally fine.
So today we're going to talk a little bit about the differences between how they feel
and how they sound.
[G] So this is a 1958 P bass, all original, totally killer.
The P bass as we know it today came out in 1957.
The original P bass was a bit older and it had a single coil pickup, but in [E] 1957 they
changed it to a Stratocaster shape and most importantly they put a big fat humbucking pickup here.
So the P bass is known for its kind of burlier sound.
You know, it's a very simple, no frills bass, but can do pretty much anything you want it to do.
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[E] _ _ So this has flatwounds on it, but they're pretty new flatwounds.
You just [C] get like a great grinding, awesome rock sound, super solid. _ _ _ _ _
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First introduced in 1960, [Em] the Fender Jazz Bass really revolutionized bass sounds.
This is a prime 1961 example, all original.
The main differences between the jazz bass and the P bass, the jazz bass has a thinner
neck up here, so it's a little bit more comfortable to play for some faster runs.
The big sonic difference is that it has two pickups.
So unlike the P bass, these are single coil pickups.
If you have them both _ full on, you get hum canceling, and if you turn one off, you'll
get a little bit of buzz depending.
But these two pickups really change the sound of the bass.
So let's listen to it with everything just wide open.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ So it has a little bit more growl to it, a little bit more high end, a little of that snakey [B]-ness.
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You know, those kind of higher end sound really changed how people played the bass, [C] and it
opened up a lot of new realms with people like Larry Graham and Jocko and all these
funk players doing amazing slap style stuff.
You can really get a lot of different sounds. _ _ _
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Alright, [N] so what we're going to do now is a big A, B, C, D test of the differences between
the jazz and the P.
So I'm going to play some classic bass riffs, and we're going to cut between each one and
see if you can hear the differences between the sounds.
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