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A number of makers have also 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 bottom. Double neck basses with various other combinations exist, such as 4-string/6-string and 4-string/5-string.
Until guitarist Jimmie Webster first popularized his Illustrated Touch System in 1952, [1] all guitars had been strummed. But with Webster's single-neck touch-style guitar and then Dave Bunker's headless, [2] [3] double-neck, DuoLectar touch guitar, these new instruments, while appearing similar to traditional strummed guitars, [4] actually employed an innovative tapping technique.
ASCII tab is a text file format used for writing guitar, bass guitar and drum tabulatures (a form of musical notation) that uses plain ASCII numbers, letters and symbols. It is the only widespread file format for representing tabulature, and is extensively used for disseminating tabulature via the Internet.
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The fretless bass guitar has found popularity in many forms of western music, from pop to jazz. [6] The first use of fretless bass guitars dates back to Bill Wyman in the early 1960s. [citation needed] Festivals featuring live fretless guitar music have been held for several years both in the US and in Europe.
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His current double-neck model is a Gibson twelve-string guitar with a Yamaha TRB-4P bass while he prefers Eric Clapton signature model Fender Stratocasters when playing guitar on later pieces. As for bass, from 1992 on, Rutherford can be seen playing mostly Yamaha from the TRB series.
An acoustic guitar, featuring a 24-fret neck and the body outline of the Red Special went into production in 2007. This model is named the "Rhapsody", after the Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody". A bass guitar called the Bri-Bass was announced on May's website and is available. It looks like his normal guitar but with four bass strings.