The double bass (/ˈdʌbəl beɪs/), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass (/beɪs/), is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone...

Double Bass Drumming written by Joe Franco and Double Bass Drum Freedom written by Virgil Donati are also commonly used resources for double bass instruction...

A double bass concerto is a notated musical composition, usually in three parts or movements (see concerto), for a solo double bass accompanied by an...

courses have been built. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has largely come to replace the double bass in popular music due to its lighter weight, the...

popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or...

as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar...

The electric upright bass (EUB) is an instrument that can perform the musical function of a double bass. It requires only a minimal or 'skeleton' body...

Romance with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring John Cleese and Connie Booth. It was adapted by Young...

stringed instrument. They are primarily used on the double bass or bass guitar. Slapping on bass guitar involves using the edge of one's knuckle, where...

up Bass, bass, or basses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bass or Basses may refer to: Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Bass (sound)...

compositions for the double bass, part of the repertoire of this instrument. Beth Anderson May Swale Lera Auerbach Monolog for double bass solo (1996) (2009)...

Quintet Op. 77 uses a double bass, and Mozart's famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik may be performed with this instrumentation (the double bass being optional)....

bass is either an electric bass or acoustic double bass which has been tuned to a higher frequency, usually one octave higher than conventional bass tuning...

'double bassist', 'bass player', may also be used. Plucked string instruments classified as basses include the electric bass guitar, the acoustic bass...

instruments. Most high parts for bass-clef instruments (e.g. cello, double bass, bassoon, and trombone) are written in the tenor clef, but very high...

tuning. In modern usage, the term most often refers to the double bass viol, a bowed bass string instrument sounding its part an octave lower than notated...

he would only play double bass. Lionel offered him two weeks' pay and a one-way ticket back to Indiana. Quickly embracing the P-bass, Monk became an early...

Jazz bass is the use of the double bass or electric bass guitar to improvise accompaniment ("comping") basslines and solos in a jazz or jazz fusion style...

soprano doubling tenor), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon brass: 4 horns, 4 trumpets (3 in C, one in D), 3 trombones (2 tenor and one bass trombone), bass tuba...

a double stop is the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass. On...

from the bass violin), the viola and the violin are indisputable members of the ancestral violin or viola da braccio family, the double bass's origins...

orchestral double bass, generally in the range 41.3–43.3 inches (1,050–1,100 mm). There are also smaller versions of this "full scale" double bass with the...

for double bass (or tuba, or bass saxhorn, or bass trombone) and piano (1953) Prélude et allegro for double bass (or tuba, or bass saxhorn, or bass trombone)...

produced double neck basses with an 8-string bass neck (double courses, tuned in octaves like a 12-string guitar) on top and a 4-string bass neck on the...

deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass in music. The pipe organ is the first, and the forefather of keyboard bass instruments. The bass pedal keyboard...

The double bass made by Hieronymus II AMATI in 1680 in Cremona, Italy, is known as the only remaining double bass from the early Cremonese school. The...

special mechanical extension with which some double basses are equipped or the composer may ask the double bass to tune down its E string, as in, for example...

Double Bass Blues is a 2019 picture book by Andrea J. Loney and illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. The book was generally well-reviewed, and received a 2020...

heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers. The genre grew out of the UK's jungle scene in the 1990s. The popularity of drum and bass at its...

of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin, viola, cello and double bass) and a number of other instruments (e.g., viols and gambas used in early...