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 the particles themselves can move quite slowly, sometimes with an average drift velocity only fractions of a millimetre per second, the electric field that drives them itself propagates at close to the speed of light, enabling electrical signals to pass rapidly along wires.

While most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals.

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 the capital cost of electrifying track is high, electric trains and locomotives are capable of higher performance and lower operational costs than steam or diesel power.

While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, dating back to a demonstration of a glowing wire by Alessandro Volta in 1800, Edison concentrated on commercial application, and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a complete system for the generation and distribution of electricity.

" While among the earliest submarines to successfully make use of electric power, she proved to have a severe flaw.

; Efficiency: While there are losses in the charge / discharge cycle and in the conversion of electricity to motive power, Rutter points out that most electric boats need only about 1. 5 kW or 2 hp to cruise at 5 mph, a common maximum river speed and that a 30 hp petrol or diesel engine producing only 2 hp is considerably more inefficient.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While electric coreless motor actuators are better suited for high speed and low load applications, hydraulic ones operate well at low speed and high load applications.

While the seaway diverted water traffic from nearby Buffalo and led to the demise of its steel and grain mills, other industries in the Niagara River valley flourished with the help of the electric power produced by the river.

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 motion picture projectors soon allowed film to be shown to large theater audiences, audio technology before the development of electric amplification could not project to satisfactorily fill large spaces.

While linearly polarized light occurs when the electric field vector oscillates only in one plane, circularly polarized light occurs when the direction of the electric field vector rotates about its propagation direction while the vector retains constant magnitude.

While funk musicians traditionally utilized electric keyboards, such as the Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano, Bernie Worrell created Parliament ’ s distinctive riffs with a Minimoog synthesizer.

While the station could accommodate diesel trains, the curvature of the tracks as proceeding north to Pleasantville made the construction at Thornwood of an elevated platform, necessary for electric trains, impractical.

While stepping out of his bath, he reached out to adjust an electric fan and apparently touched an exposed wire and was accidentally electrocuted.

While some electric instruments were produced in bulk, such as the Ondioline, the Hammond organ, and the Trautonium, many of these would not be considered synthesizers by the standards of later instruments.

While liquid fuel / electric hybrids date back to the late 19th century, the braking regenerative hybrid was invented by David Arthurs, an electrical engineer from Springdale, Arkansas in 1978 – 79.

While a session musician, Johnson continued to perform locally, developing a flashy but tasteful electric guitar sound.

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 they would never regain the commercial success of All Around My Hat, Steeleye remained popular among electric folk fans, and generally respected within the music industry.

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 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 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 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 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.