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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bassist (redirect from Bass guitarist)
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...
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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...
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Bass trumpet Bass violin Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass...
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Slapping (music) (redirect from Slap bass)
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...
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String quintet (redirect from Double bass quintet)
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)....
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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...
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'double bassist', 'bass player', may also be used. Plucked string instruments classified as basses include the electric bass guitar, the acoustic bass...
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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...
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Violone (section Double bass-sized instruments)
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...
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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)...
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guitarist could double on bass then they had a better chance of staying employed. Double basses had no frets so the P-bass got frets. Upright bass players sometimes...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Scale length (string instruments) (redirect from Bass scale)
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...
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Tanya Grotter (redirect from Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass)
and plot elements of the first novel, Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, are a humorous parody of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Double Bass is a studio album by jazz bassists Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Sam Jones, which was recorded in 1976 and released on the Danish SteepleChase...
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with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short film directed by Robert Young based on a short story by Anton Chekhov. Romance with a Double Bass may also...
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Allegretto), for double bass (or cello), 2nd double bass and orchestra/piano Duo Concertant on Themes of Bellini's "I Puritani" for cello, double bass and orchestra...
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any number of instruments that play in the bass register may be included, such as cello, double bass, bass viol, or bassoon. The most common combination...
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