Fender Jazz Bass vs Fender Precision Bass: what’s the difference?

Fender Jazz Bass and Precision Bass on dark ground
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While it's true to say Fender is an icon in the thunderous world of bass guitars, they are a whole lot more than that. Clarence Leonidas Fender not only set the template that all other future electric basses would follow for decades to come, he simultaneously changed the course of popular music forever.

Leo wasn't technically the first to electrify the bass guitar – more on that later – but his blueprint for the perfect bass guitar was ground-breaking and helped catapult this new-fangled instrument into the mainstream and arguably created a new type of musician in the process.

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