Electric bass can mean:

• Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass
• Electric bass guitar
• Bass synthesizer
• Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish

The bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick.