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  2. Vexations - Wikipedia

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    Vexations piano score. Vexations is a musical work by Erik Satie.Apparently conceived for keyboard (although the single page of manuscript does not specify an instrument), it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are heard alternatingly unaccompanied and played with chords above.

  3. Chaconne - Wikipedia

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    The "Ciaccona" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2. A chaconne (/ ʃ ə ˈ k ɒ n / shə-KON, French:; Spanish: chacona; Italian: ciaccona [tʃakˈkoːna]; earlier English: chacony) [1] is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers ...

  4. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:

  5. DECONSTRUCTION: Portrait of a Quiet Masterpiece - AOL

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    Whereas you have a lot of bass players playing the root of the guitar chord, and that’s your song, [here] I’m playing one line, he’s playing a contradictory line, and it creates this cacophony.

  6. Ostinato - Wikipedia

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    Unlike these music genres, funk is based on the rhythmic groove of the percussion, rhythm section instruments, and a deep electric bass line, usually all over a single chord. "In funk, harmony is often second to the 'lock,' the linking of contrapuntal parts that are played on guitar, bass, and drums in the repeating vamp."

  7. Pino Palladino’s best basslines - AOL

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    On his 65th birthday, we look back at Pino’s greatest 4-string moments

  8. Drop (music) - Wikipedia

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    In this spectrogram of Disparition's track Glass Tiger, the buildup and drop are visible leading up to 2:05. A drop or beat drop in music, made popular by electronic dance music (EDM) styles, is a point in a music track where a sudden change of rhythm or bass line occurs, which is preceded by a build-up section and break.

  9. Bassline - Wikipedia

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    Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric ...