George Shearing took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer.

Together with Parsons and Woolfson, the Project originally consisted of the group Pilot, with Ian Bairnson ( guitar ), David Paton ( bass ) and Stuart Tosh ( drums ).

* Alan Parsons-keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production

* Tony Garnier – bass guitar

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, tapping, thumping, or picking.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

The four-string bass — by far the most common — is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lower strings of a guitar ( E, A, D, and G ).

The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds ( as is the double bass ) to avoid excessive ledger lines.

Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.

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

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..

* Bobby Kildea: 2000 – present, guitar and bass

Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly ( lead guitar and vocals ), Niki Sullivan ( guitar ), Joe B. Mauldin ( bass ), and Jerry Allison ( drums ).

In these readings, the double bass is either kept discreetly in the background, or it is dressed in clown's attire -- the musical equivalent of a bull in a china shop.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

Analog Brothers is an experimental hip-hop crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice-T ( keyboards, drums, vocals ), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith ( bass, strings, vocals ), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live ( drums, violyns and vocals ), Silver Synth also known as Black Silver ( synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals ), and Rex Roland also known as Pimp Rex ( keyboards, vocals, production ).

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

When I say ' UK bass ', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that.

The bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

The Alberti bass was used by many later composers, and it became an important element in much keyboard music of the Classical music era.

The frog of the double bass bow is usually made out of ebony, although snakewood and buffalo horn are used by some luthiers.

The double bass bow is strung with either white or black horsehair, or a combination of the two ( known as " salt and pepper "), as opposed to the customary white horsehair used on the bows of other string instruments.

The bass ( or F ) clef is used for most orchestral double bass music.

The lowest note of a double bass is an E < sub > 1 </ sub > ( on standard four-string basses ) at approximately 41 Hz or a B0 ( when five strings are used ) at approximately 31 Hz, within about an octave above the lowest frequency that the average human ear can perceive as a distinctive pitch.

These parts are transpositions of parts written for other bass instruments used before the modern double bass became common and may actually lower the part an octave.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

The double bass, then often referred to as the Violone used different tunings from region to region.

In the realm of even larger works, Mozart included the double bass in addition to 12 wind instruments for his " Gran Partita " Serenade, K. 361 and Martinů used the double bass in his nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

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.

Like many other string instruments, the double bass is played either with a bow ( arco ) or by plucking the strings ( pizzicato ).

In his A New History of the Double Bass, Paul Brun asserts, with many references, that the double bass has origins as the true bass of the violin family.

The double bass features many parts that are similar to members of the violin family including a bridge, f-holes, a tailpiece, a scroll and a sound post.

In the largest orchestras, bass sections may have as many as ten or twelve players, but modern budget constraints make bass sections this large unusual.

The double bass as a solo instrument enjoyed a period of popularity during the 18th century and many of the most popular composers from that era wrote pieces for the double bass.

Dragonetti wrote ten concertos for the double bass and many solo works for bass and piano.

In the mid-century and in the following decades, many new concerti were written for the double bass, including Nikos Skalkottas's Concerto ( 1942 ), Eduard Tubin's Concerto ( 1948 ), Lars-Erik Larsson's Concertino ( 1957 ), Gunther Schuller's Concerto ( 1962 ), and Hans Werner Henze's Concerto ( 1966 ).

The newest position in the repertoire is a suite " Seven Screen Shots " for double bass and piano ( 2005 ) by Ukrainian composer Alexander Shchetynsky with solo part that includes many unconventional methods of playing the double bass.

Johannes Brahms, whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

Beginners tend to play simple bass drum patterns, moderate players complex ones with many strokes, and accomplished players more subtle ones with fewer strokes.

Because of this, many higher level kits are sold with little or even no hardware, to allow the drummer to choose the stands and also the bass drum pedal they prefer.

The coastline supplies many crustaceans, sea bass, monkfish and herring.

" The band went through many personnel changes over the years ; the best-known formation was Freddy Cavalli ( bass ), Danny Lademacher ( guitar ) ( later replaced with David Hollestelle ), and Cees ' Ani ' Meerman ( drums ).

Producers use many different sound-sources for bass sounds in house, from continuous, repeating electronically generated lines sequenced on a synthesizer, such as a Korg M1, Roland SH-101, or TB-303, to studio recordings or samples of live electric bassists, or simply filtered-down samples from whole stereo recordings of classic funk tracks or any other songs.

There are many types of harmonicas, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions.