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Fender Precision vs. Jazz Bass: Which Classic Bass Is Best for You?

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Fender’s Precision Bass and Jazz Bass are two legendary instruments that have helped sculpt some of your favorite songs since their inception. But what are the differences between the two? We set out to let you know what is different between the P Bass and the Jazz Bass.

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00:00 — Intro
00:29 — History of the Fender Precision Bass
01:15 — History of the Fender Jazz Bass
02:11 — P Bass Playing and Features
04:22 — Jazz Bass Playing and Features
05:48 — Comparing the Sounds of the P and Jazz Bass
08:01 — Outro

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20 Comments

@sweetwater Creator 1 year ago (edited) Pinned

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@AmericanNationalist852 1 year ago (edited)

As a guitar player looking for a bass, my ideal bass would be a P Bass with a Jazz Bass neck

@hylas99 2 months ago

This guy has amazing right hand technique. Very articulate.

@alongcomesandy 1 year ago

As a guitar player of 30 years, I want to dive into bass. Not because someone wants me to play bass, because I dig it the older i got. Thanks for the video. J-Bass it is for me.

@CrockettsCabin 6 months ago

You should have one of each: a Precision, a Jazz, and a Ray.

@tannerfeazell 1 year ago

Fun fact, Maxwell Murder by Rancid 3:00 was actually tracked on a jazz, not a P.

@jrmintz1 1 year ago

I switched from P-Bass to J-Bass around fifty years ago. I think one of the beauties of either bass is the fact that you can modify the sound by where on the bass you play just with your right hand. Closer to the neck you get one sound, in the middle you get another, and closer to the bridge yet another. And the thing I love about passive Fenders is that if you play softly they whisper, if you play hard they shout. The range of expressiveness you can get with your hands is very wide. You can't do that with active basses. The other thing that people who haven't spent a lot of time in studios don't know is that good passive Fenders sit just above the kick drum in frequency range, and make it easier for the engineer to combine them in a way that propels the track. Active basses, particularly active five string basses go below the kick drum and unless you're very careful the bass can make the track plodding and mushy. Leo got it really right!

@Moetown1986 1 year ago

You need both. And a PJ. And a Ray. And a Rick.

@voiceofexperience 1 year ago

Jazz bass, both pickups on full volume, tone all the way down.
Rotosound strings.
Never had any complaints.

@richshields6692 1 year ago

Nice jaco sound. Great playing man.

@swartzfeger69 1 year ago

Great playing, man!

@shipsahoy1793 1 year ago

OK .. I'll start this off .. my two favorite electric bass guitars are the precision bass with flats, and the fretless version of the jazz bass with flats. They are the best fit for the majority of my bass playing, although I also like the Stingray bass,
the Thunderbird bass, and short scale bass occasionally.
I like to noodle on any bass I can get my hands on to see where it leads 😉

@snakeplissken44 1 year ago

I actually like the jazz neck pickup a little better than the P.

@gurumajuindonesia 1 year ago

I'd definitely bought the PJ If I had the money

@romeou4965 1 year ago

Stingray. 🔥 Leo Fender’s last masterpiece.

@fredericthom8113 1 year ago

i want both !!!

@ghalsor 1 year ago (edited)

No plans to get a bass. I needed the answer to one of life’s big questions.

@RooftopJazzQuartet 9 months ago

loved your playing “Donna Lee” on the Jazz Bass.

@giediejon 1 year ago

Always choose the Pbass. I have a Mustang PJ player II bass. And also a fender Japanese sunburst jaguar bass with a small jazz width neck and a precision bass pickup installed instead of the two jazz pickups it comes with

@stevehurst916 1 month ago (edited)

I use both for rock, country, and bluegrass gospel. I'm at 80% P and 20% J. P is my desert island bass. It puts smiles on faces and lights it up, punch and growl.