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The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale [1]. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London, [1] [5] and brought up in Chiswick, Middlesex, which is now part of London. [6] He was an only child. His father, Herbert (1915 - 2003), played the trumpet [7] and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011), [8] played the ...
A bolt-on bass with alder body with flame-maple top, 35" scale, and "Infinity" dot inlay on the fretboard, various Red and Blue RBX6JM models were thereafter his main studio and live instruments until 2002, although he experimented with a Hamer 8-string bass and Music Man StingRay five-string while recording Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.
Matt Bissonette (born July 25, 1961) is an American bass player and vocalist. According to Guitar 9, an online musicianship magazine, he has played bass and other stringed instruments on at least 22 albums, with music styles ranging from jazz, jazz fusion, progressive metal and instrumental rock.
I've left for now the last bit (in slightly altered form): "The pentatonic scale used by the Gogo people of Tanzania is said to be tuned thus: 1:9/8:5/4:3/2:7/4. This anhemitonic scale can be thought of as a section of the harmonic series, from the 5th or 6th overtone up to the 10th, transposed to other octaves.
Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched basslines and bass runs in many different styles of music ranging from rock and metal to blues and jazz. Bassists also use the bass guitar as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock ...
Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961 [1]) is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of the Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson.
Anthony Williams (born 19 August 1947) is an English musician who played bass guitar in the folk rock/rock band Stealers Wheel and who also played with Jethro Tull. Career [ edit ]