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"Slap That Bass" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire and Dudley Dickerson in the 1937 film Shall We Dance. [ 3 ] The song refers to the slap style of double bass playing that was popular at the time.
The record reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart [6] for the first two weeks in May 1971, selling 300,000 copies, after only 33 radio plays. [7] In the U.S., "Double Barrel" peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of 7 August 1971 [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and number 4 on WLS on 28 June 1971, [ 10 ] two years to the week after "Israelites ...
They regrouped in February the following year [5] and recorded the songs on the album mostly live onto 8-track tape. The highlight of the sessions was a fourteen-minute jazz-rock piece assembled from various sections contributed by the band, called "Can't Be Long Now" (listed as "For Richard" in the 1973 live album Caravan and the New Symphonia ...
The song was conceived as an extensive series of high-speed double bass drum exercises by Vinnie Paul, and then guitarist Dimebag Darrell added riffs and a solo based on his first whammy pedal, the Digitech Whammy. [1] [2] It also uses an unusual guitar tuning, as it sits between C# and D-tuning.
Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku CBE (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ tʃ i ˈ n w æ n oʊ k uː /; born June 1956) is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years until she ...
On Saturday, Hailey Bieber stepped out in Los Angeles to show her support for Gigi Hadid’s Guest In Residence store opening, one of her first outings since she and husband Justin Bieber welcomed ...
A 2021 study found that the treadmill is the most effective cardio machine for weight loss. A trainer explains why—and reveals the best treadmill workouts.
"Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass" (Three Chinese or Chinamen With A Double Bass) is a popular nonsensical German children's song.Its distinctive feature is a very simple form of word play: while the lyrics remain in effect unchanged, in each consecutive stanza all the vowels are replaced by one single vowel, with that single vowel changing in each new stanza.