In folk and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a bass fiddle or bass violin ( or more rarely as doghouse bass or bull fiddle ).

" Rockabilly and bluegrass bassists also prefer gut because it is much easier to perform the " slapping " upright bass style ( in which the strings are percussively slapped and clicked against the fingerboard ) with gut strings than with steel strings.

( For more information on slapping, see the sections below on Modern playing styles, Double bass in bluegrass music, Double bass in jazz, and Double bass in popular music ).

The string bass is the most commonly used bass instrument in bluegrass music and is almost always plucked, though some modern bluegrass bassists have also used a bow.

Most bluegrass bassists use the 3 / 4 size bass, but the full-size and 5 / 8 size basses are also used.

Upright bass used by a bluegrass group ; the cable for a piezoelectric pickup can be seen extending from the bridge.

Some contemporary bluegrass bands favor the electric bass, because it is easier to transport than the large and somewhat fragile upright bass.

Common rhythms in bluegrass bass playing involve ( with some exceptions ) plucking on beats 1 and 3 in 4 / 4 time ; beats 1 and 2 in 2 / 4 time, and on the downbeat in 3 / 4 time ( waltz time ).

Slap-style bass is sometimes used in bluegrass bass playing.

When bluegrass bass players slap the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard or hit the strings against the fingerboard, it adds the high-pitched percussive " clack " or " slap " sound to the low-pitched bass notes, sounding much like the clacks of a tap dancer.

" He notes that " Even in traditional bluegrass slap bass only appears sporadically and most of what I've done has been on the more contemporary side of that ( Tony Rice, Tim O ' Brien ).

" Another bluegrass method, Learn to Play Bluegrass Bass, by Earl Gately, also teaches bluegrass slap bass technique.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz.

In bluegrass music, the melody line is called the lead.

In bluegrass music, the melody line is called the lead.

In a bluegrass tune in which the bassline consists of low-pitched quarter notes played on the double bass on the root and fifth of each chord on beats one and three ( of a 4 / 4 tune ), a bass run may consist of a walking bass line played for several bars.

The banjo is usually associated with country, folk, Irish traditional, and bluegrass music.

) folded or arched metal ring attached to a thick wood rim, over which a skin, or most often, a plastic membrane ( or head ) is stretched-it is the bell bronze that gives the banjo a crisp powerful lower register and clear, bell-like treble register-especially in bluegrass music.

The Car Talk theme song is " Dawggy Mountain Breakdown " by bluegrass artist David Grisman.

In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly / psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music.

The bluegrass bassist is part of the rhythm section, and is responsible for keeping a steady beat, whether fast, slow, in 4 / 4 time, 2 / 4 or 3 / 4 time.

Slapping is a subject of minor controversy in the bluegrass scene.

In addition to being a noted classical player, Edgar Meyer is well known in bluegrass and newgrass circles.

Todd Phillips is another prominent bluegrass player.

The acoustic guitar is used in many kinds of music including folk, country, bluegrass, pop, jazz, and blues.

Now, the older name is widely deemed offensive, but the term hillbilly music is still used on occasion to refer to old-time music or bluegrass.

Generally, in the United States, Gibson F-hole F-5 mandolins and mandolins influenced by that design are strongly associated with bluegrass, while the A-style is associated other types of music, although it too is most often used for and associated with bluegrass.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

In bluegrass bands, the timekeeping role is shared between several instruments: the upright bass generally plays the on-beats while the mandolin plays chop chords on the off-beats, with the banjo also keeping a steady eighth note rhythm.

Though musical acts and styles generally vary in scope from older folk artists such as Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, and Janis Ian to up-and-coming acts from the fringes of folk and other genres from bluegrass ( Crooked Still ) to polka ( Brave Combo ), the dominant style of music at the festival is " Folk-Pop ".

The strings are generally plucked with the sides of the top joints of the index and middle fingers, although sometimes the tips are used to produce a mellower tone or to facilitate rockabilly or bluegrass " slap " playing, while the thumb of the right hand rests against the side of the fingerboard.

The lineups generally include jam and bluegrass bands.

All four of the seminal bluegrass authors: Artis, Price, Canwell and Rosenburg described bluegrass music in detail as originating in style and form, in one form or another, between the 1930s and mid-1940s.

Hence the interplay between bluegrass and folk forms has been academically studied.

Other recurring bits on the show include fictional commercials, including those for The Catchup Advisory Board ( its name a compromise between the two common spellings for the condiment: " catsup " and " ketchup "), which proclaims the good news about the condiment's " natural mellowing agents " after a short skit of the sufferings of Jim and Barb, a middle-aged couple ; the American Duct Tape Council ; Marvin and Mavis Smiley seasonal bluegrass albums ; Fred Farrell Animal Calls ; the Professional Organization of English Majors ( P. O. E. M.

There has been substantial overlap between Washington, D. C .' s folk and bluegrass scene in the past several decades, in part due to the patronage of disc jockeys at public radio station WAMU, including Mary Cliff, longtime host of the music show Traditions.

In 1995, Hot House was released with its cover art, featuring an imagined jam session between bluegrass legend Bill Monroe and jazz legend Charlie Parker, serving as an apt metaphor for the rich fusion of musical styles Hornsby was currently developing and expanding.

In bluegrass music, a break is a short instrumental solo played between sections of a song and is conventionally a variation on the song's melody.

To the northwest, and around Mount Ruapehu, between an altitude of 1200 and 1500 m, tussock shrubland and tussock grass covers large areas ( around 150 km² ), consisting mainly of New Zealand red tussock grass ( Chionochloa rubra ), inaka, curled leaved neinei ( Dracophyllum recurvum ), wire rush ( Empodisma minus ), and bog rush ( Schoenus pauciflorus ), as well as heather and grasses like hard tussock ( Festuca novaezelandiae ) and bluegrass ( Poa colensoi ).

WUMD College Radio is a student-run, free-format radio station that features diversity in music from punk rock to bluegrass, jazz to electronica, and everything in between.

According to the official Jazz Fest website, " The Festival celebrates the indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana, so the music encompasses every style associated with the city and the state: blues, R & B, gospel music, Cajun music, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk music, Latin, rock, rap music, country music, bluegrass and everything in between.

UM experiments with many genres including progressive rock, funk, jazz, blues, metal, electronic, bluegrass, and everything in between.

A step back from its predecessor Pleasures of the Harbor, a sort of cross between that album and 1966's Phil Ochs In Concert, it features folk with shades of rock, bluegrass and baroque music.

Mutual Admiration Society is a musical collaboration between singer / songwriter Glen Phillips and progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek.