While there are specific types of underlying bass rhythms ( shita-byōshi ), the accompanying player is free to express an original musical beat.

While the double bass is nearly identical in construction to other violin family instruments, it also embodies features found in the older viol family.

While the violin, viola, and cello all use friction pegs for gross tuning adjustments, the double bass has metal machine heads.

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.

While orchestral bass solos are somewhat rare, there are some notable examples.

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.

While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.

While bassists such as Jack Cook slap bass on the occasional faster " Clinch Mountain Boys song ," bassists such as Gene Libbea, Missy Raines, Jenny Keel, and Barry Bales slap bass.

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.

While in prison, he formed a gospel quartet with fellow cell mates Johnny Terry, " Hucklebuck " Davis and a person named " Shag ", and made homemade instruments-a comb and paper, a washtub bass, a drum kit made from lard tubs and for Brown, what he called " a sort of mandolin out of a wooden box.

While imprisoned, Vikernes recorded two dark ambient albums using only synthesizers, as he did not have access to drums, guitar, or bass.

While an F transposition became standard in the early 19th century, composers differed in whether they expected the instruments to transpose down a fifth or up a fourth, especially when written in bass clef.

While most electric bass players rarely play chords ( two or more notes all sounded at the same time ), chords are used in some styles, especially jazz, progressive rock or Heavy Metal.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

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.

While smallmouth bass were sought by some fly fishermen, most bass fishing was done by sustenance anglers using poles and live bait.

While still in high school in Ukiah, California, Davey Havok ( vocals ), Mark Stopholese ( guitar ) and Vic Chalker ( bass ) formed an outfit called AFI in November 1991.

While the first album was traditionally performed-guitars, bass and with a guest drummer-Please to See the King was revolutionary in its hard electric sound and lack of drums.

While playing around on the bass, Sam Rivers tuned a bass to its lowest tuning and started playing a funky bass rift.

While music is an art form in itself, playing an instrument such as the guitar has long been a popular subject for painters.

While tab is most often associated with fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, tab is also used with other instruments such as the organ and harmonica.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

While his mainstays were the Arbiter Fuzz Face and a Vox wah-wah pedal, Hendrix experimented with guitar effects as well.

While jazz can be played on any type of guitar, from an acoustic instrument to a solid-bodied electric guitar such as a Fender Stratocaster, the full-depth archtop guitar has become known as the prototypical " jazz guitar.

While most music lessons are one-on-one ( private ), some teachers also teach groups of two to four students ( semi-private lessons ), and, for very basic instruction, some instruments are taught in large group lessons, such as piano and acoustic guitar.

While fans and critics took notice of Lifeson's diminished guitar work, his presence was still palpable.

While the album is almost completely guitar-driven, it is mostly devoid of any conventional sounding guitar solos, a conscious decision made by Lifeson during the writing process.

While Waits had before played either piano or guitar, he now gravitated towards less common instruments, saying, " Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been.

While still fast and loud, the album's country leanings were evolving and its raw punk sound was channeling raw guitar power chords.

While there, she met future Czechoslovakian president Václav Havel, whom she let carry her guitar so as to prevent his arrest by government agents.

As well as performing a trio of his own hits during the ceremony, Prince also participated in a tribute to fellow inductee George Harrison in a rendering of Harrison's " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", playing a long guitar solo that ended the song.

Originally " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " had only the first guitar solo in the song off of the album.

While he's talking, the animator erases him completely, then redraws him as a cowboy with a guitar.

Though not formally credited on the album, Eric Clapton played lead guitar on Harrison's " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ".

* Eric Clapton – lead guitar on " While my Guitar Gently Weeps "

While the band reformed in the early 90s with the addition of former Strawmen members David Leonhardt ( guitar ) and Harmon, the live album 88 and Sticks and Stones, a collection of previously unreleased recordings and demos, were released.

While Mascis's guitar, alternating between Black Sabbath-like riffs, squalling solos, dissonant noise-rock and occasional quiet passages, was the main attraction, Barlow's bass, melodic, highly distorted and often playing thick two-note chords, competed for attention.

While their 1983 debut is an accomplished work squarely in keeping with hardcore punk convention, their 1990 followup features dense guitar work replete with solos and overdubs, diversified tempos and several sonic experiments, leading it to draw comparisons to Black Sabbath and 1970s album-oriented rock.

While still in high school in 1950, Chase attended his first Stan Kenton concert, featuring Maynard Ferguson on high note solos, and Bill was hooked from then on.

While it could be argued that he could have made the symphony 30 minutes shorter by condensing his message, the long passages of sparsely accompanied solos for wind instruments present listeners with the opportunity to study them, appreciate the inner character of the music as each instrument soliloquises on a given mood.

Extended guitar solos are sometimes used as a song's outro, such as Radiohead's " Paranoid Android ", Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird ", Pink Floyd's " Comfortably Numb ", Guns N ' Roses ' " November Rain ", Metallica's " Fade to Black ", Led Zeppelin's " Black Dog ", The Beatles ' " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", The Rolling Stones ' " Sympathy for the Devil ", Pearl Jam's " Alive ", Red Hot Chili Peppers ' " Dani California ", Cream's " White Room ", AC / DC's " Let There Be Rock ", Outlaws ' " Green Grass and High Tides ", The Alan Parsons Project's " Eye in the Sky " and Eagles ' " Hotel California ".

While bass guitar solos appear on few studio albums from rock or pop bands, genres such as progressive rock, fusion-influenced rock, and some types of heavy metal are more likely to include bass solos, both in studio albums and in live performances.

While the cover credits the Miles Davis Sextet, only the title track featured six players, Coltrane making two cameo appearances on the album, taking solos on the title track and " Teo ," the latter with Mobley laying out.

" While most slow songs by Iron Maiden or Saxon border into the area of ballads, all of the tracks on The Skull are as heavy as they are slow, with a distinctive fuzzy distortion and melodic, integral ( rather than superfluous or ostentatious ) guitar solos.

[...] While rockers have always shone in ' Simpsons ' solos, the Stones so giddily mock their hall-of-fame status it makes " Strummer " the series ' Woodstock: a classic-rock show even Disco Stu could get behind.

While attending music school in 1996, Michael asked Christopher to record solos for his new melodic death metal project Arch Enemy.