Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged electric guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs, along with African rhythms and a signature beat ( a simple, five-accent rhythm ) that remains a cornerstone of rock and pop.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

* 6025 – rhythm guitar ( 1978 – 1979 )

For practical reasons, when transferring flamenco guitar music to sheet music, this rhythm is written as a regular 3 / 4.

The term " battente ," which means " to beat " in Italian, has do with the style the guitar is generally played in, which is principally as a rhythm instrument.

While with an ensemble, a guitarist can take the role of rhythm ( playing with bass in the ensemble ) or lead ( playing on top of the bass in the ensemble ) guitar.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

During the late 1930s and through the 1940s — the heyday of big band jazz and swing music — the guitar was an important rhythm section instrument.

It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII period that the guitar took as a versatile instrument, which was used both in the rhythm section and as a featured melodic instrument and solo improviser.

Jazz rhythm guitar often consists of very textural, odd-meter playing that includes generous use of exotic, difficult to fret chords.

In jazz big bands, popular during the 30s and 40s, the guitarist is considered an integral part of the rhythm section ( guitar, drums and bass ).

* Marlon Young – lead & rhythm guitar ( 1996 – 1997, 2007 – present )

* Jason Krause – rhythm & lead guitar ( 1997 – present )

* Andy Gould – rhythm guitar ( 1994 – 1995 )

* George Metropolous – rhythm guitar ( 1994 – 1995 )

* Jeff Hall – rhythm guitar ( 1995 – 1996 )

* Bryan MacLean: rhythm guitar, vocals ( lead vocals on " Old Man " and co-lead vocals on " Alone Again Or ")

* John Corabi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar

In early 2011 Elmo Kirkwood, son of Curt Kirkwood and nephew of Cris Kirkwood, joined the band playing rhythm guitar.

) and a rhythm section made up of a bass guitar and drum kit.

It allows a tenor banjo player to provide a guitar-based rhythm section with little to learn.

Duke Ellington's big band had a rhythm section that included a jazz guitarist, a double bass player, and a drummer ( not visible ).

Karaoke Revolution, created for the PlayStation 2 by Harmonix and released by Konami in North America in 2003, is a console game in which a single player sings along with on-screen guidance and receives a score based on pitch, timing, and rhythm.

Classically, a rock band takes the form of a quartet whose members cover one or more roles, including vocalist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer and occasionally that of keyboard player or other instrumentalist.

** Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player

" Interlocking " or alternating rhythm features in Eastern African xylophone music such as that of the Makonde dimbila, the Yao mangolongondo or the Shirima mangwilo in which the opachera, the initial caller, is responded to by another player, the wakulela.

A washboard ( left ) and a piano player A washboard and player The washboard and frottoir ( from Cajun French " frotter ", to rub ) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument.

In some rhythm sections, a guitar player is omitted.

* Toki Wartooth, rhythm guitar player for the fictional death metal band Dethklok was raised in a nearby abandoned village.

While the Mary Chain became notorious for their chaotic gigs, Gillespie and Beattie expanded Primal Scream's lineup to include schoolfriend Young on bass, rhythm guitarist Stuart May, drummer Tom McGurk, and tambourine player Martin St. John.

The gameplay features a system where the player must copy sequences of dance steps performed by the computer, as synchronized to the rhythm of the music.

Each level is split up into several parts, revolving around dance-offs or shoot-outs, during which the player must repeat commands spoken by the opponent ( Up, Down, Left, Right and Chu ) in time to the rhythm.

* Mike Sembos, rhythm guitar / keyboard player for the band The Alternate Routes.

The seeds must travel some distance before they hit the leather, wood, or plastic, so the player must anticipate the rhythm.

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

* John Lombardo – ( 1981 – 1986, 1994 – 2002 ) Lombardo, the band's rhythm guitar player and occasional odd vocalist, co-wrote most of the early Maniacs songs, but left the band in 1986.

The rhythm section went through several changes, with drummer John Ike Walton and bass player Ronnie Leatherman being the longest permanent members.

With Becker now mainly playing lead and rhythm guitar, the pair put together a band that included an additional keyboard player and lead guitarist, a bassist, three female backing singers, and a four-piece saxophone section.

The rhythm accompanist is usually a mridangam player ( who sits on the other side, facing the violin player ).

On some tracks there is a third tenor player Richie Kamuca and a different rhythm section ( pianist Dave Frishberg, bassist Tommy Potter and Lewis

The preeminent electric guitar player to use the pedal in this way was Jimi Hendrix who revolutionized the way it was applied using the combination of Fender Stratocaster with stacked Marshall Amplifiers ( in both static and modulated mode ) for lead / rhythm guitar applications unheard of prior to Hendrix.

A skilled player can use the sounds to create very complex rhythmic patterns ; the combination of rhythm and the differently pitched sounds often leads an inexpert listener to believe that more than one drum is being played.

According to the autobiography Lobotomy: Surviving The Ramones, Dee Dee Ramone took a call in New York the next day from Stevie Klasson, Johnny's rhythm guitar player.