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  2. Geddy Lee - Wikipedia

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    Lee's playing style is widely regarded for his use of high treble and very hard playing of the strings and for utilizing the bass as a lead instrument, often contrapuntal to Lifeson's guitar. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Lee mostly used a Rickenbacker 4001 bass, with a very noticeable grit in his tone.

  3. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass ( / beɪs /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models ...

  4. List of bass guitar manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar but with a longer neck and scale length and most usually four strings. This is a partial list of Wikipedia articles about companies (past and present) under which electric bass guitars have been sold.

  5. Bass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Bass instrument. Alex Dixon holding two bass instruments: a bass guitar (left) and a double bass (right). A bass instrument ( / beɪs /) is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low-pitched range C 2 –C 4. [ 1] Basses belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles.

  6. Bass music - Wikipedia

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    Bass music is a term used to describe several genres of electronic dance music and hip hop music [1] arising from the 1980s on, focusing on a prominent bass drum and/or bassline sound. As one source notes, there are "many different types of bass music to fall into, each putting a different spin on one of music's loudest elements". [ 2 ]

  7. Eight-string bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The eight-string bass guitar was invented by electrical engineer and musician Eric Krackow, who had played with Al Kooper's early band, The Aristo-Cats, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It bothered Eric that 50% of the quartet would be tied up with the guitar doubling the bass line while playing tunes like Jimi Hendrix 's "Manic Depression".

  8. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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    A bass guitarist tuning his instrument. Each bass guitar tuning assigns pitches to the strings of an electric bass. Because pitches are associated with notes, bass-guitar tunings assign open notes to open strings. There are several techniques for accurately tuning the strings of an electric bass. Bass method or lesson books [ 1] introduce one ...

  9. Rick Beato - Wikipedia

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    Rick Beato. Richard John Beato ( / biˈɑːtoʊ / bee-AH-toh; born April 24, 1962 [ 2]) is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has lectured on music at universities.