- Guitar
... nd a narrower neck.<ref>[A Look At The History Of The Guitar http://www.thejazzfestival.net/showarticle?id=109580]</ref>
... ar is used in many kinds of music including folk, country, bluegrass, pop, jazz and blues.
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- Lead guitar
In [[rock music|rock]], [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[blues]], [[jazz]] and [[fusion]] bands and some [[pop music|pop]] contexts as well as othe ...
... are performed using a variety of techniques. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, lead guitar line ...
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- Bass guitar
... [[blues]] and [[jazz]]. It is used as a soloing instrument in [[jazz]], [[Jazz fusion|fusion]], [[Latin music|Latin]], [[funk]], and in some [[Rock music ...
... a volume control for each pickup, and a single, passive tone control. The Jazz Bass' neck was narrower at the nut than the Precision bass (1½" versus 1 ...
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- Drum kit
In [[jazz]], however, the [[ride cymbal]] and hi hats (or brushed snare drum and hi ...
... sion items suspended on and around it, and they became a central part of [[jazz music]]. Hi-hat stands appeared around 1926. Metal consoles were developed ...
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- Rock music
... ]] - [[Flamenco-rock]] - [[Folk rock]] - [[Indo-rock]] - [[Punk rock]] - [[Jazz fusion]] - [[Madchester]] - [[Merseybeat]] - [[Progressive rock]] - [[Punt ...
... drew on a number of other musical influences, including [[folk music]], [[jazz]], and [[classical music]].
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- Tremolo arm
... ice for more easily producing the [[vibrato]] effects that [[blues]] and [[jazz guitar]]ists had long produced on [[arch top guitar]]s by manipulating the ...
... b|right|200px|Fender floating tremolo tailpiece and floating bridge on a [[Jazzmaster]]]]
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- Fender Stratocaster
... ne single-coil pickup (most notably the Stratocaster, [[Telecaster]] and [[Jazz Bass]]) are wired in such a manner as to provide a hum-canceling combinati ...
... was given a broader headstock with altered decals to match the size of the Jazzmaster and Jaguar.
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- Gibson Les Paul
... nally designed by Ted McCarty and endorsed, named and used by then popular jazz/pop guitarist [[Les Paul]].
... Guitar Corporation]] and pop star, electronics inventor, and accomplished jazz guitarist [[Les Paul]]. In 1950, with the introduction of the [[Fender Tel ...
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- Tom-tom drum
... ular "classic" configuration of 12x8 and 13x9, which is still used by some jazz and retro drummers. However a wide variety of configurations are commonly ...
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- Hi-hat cymbal
... nists in [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]], [[Hip-hop music|hip-hop]], [[disco]], [[jazz]], [[rock and roll]], [[House music|house]], and other forms of contempora ...
... ash the cymbals together, a style commonly used to accent beats 2 and 4 in jazz music. In rock music, the hi-hats are commonly struck every beat or on bea ...
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- Bass drum
... roughout 20th century popular music as a component of the [[drum kit]] for jazz and rock styles.
... the [[snare drum]] on the second and fourth beats, called "back beats". In jazz, the bass drum can vary from almost entirely being a timekeeping medium to ...
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- Drum stick
... le so that the bristles make a rounded fan shape. They are often used in [[jazz]] or [[blues]] music. The bristles can be made of metal or plastic; handle ...
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- Fill (music)
In some styles, such as [[jazz]] or [[jazz fusion]], musicians have more freedom to improvise fill passages each time ...
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- Seattle, Washington
... ]] and [[Wayne Horvitz]], [[rap music|rapper]] [[Sir Mix-a-Lot]], [[smooth jazz]] [[saxophonist]] [[Kenny G]], [[Heart (band)|Heart]], [[heavy metal music ...
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- New York City
... n-American literary canon in the United States. The city was a center of [[jazz]] in the 1940s, [[abstract expressionism]] in the 1950s and the birthplace ...
The [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]], which includes [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]], the [[Metropolitan Opera]], the [[New York City Opera ...
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- VH1
... branded as an urbane version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a higher rotation of urban-contemporary p ...
... mus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon [[Sade Adu]] a "grape" for her oval-shaped head.
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- Rock and roll
*Jazz
The [[trad jazz]] movement brought blues artists to Britain, and in 1955 [[Lonnie Donegan] ...
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- Tapping
... ing technique was also known and occasionally used by many 1950s and 1960s Jazz guitarists such as [[Barney Kessel]] who was an early supporter of [[Emmet ...
In August 1969, Los Angeles jazz guitarist [[Emmett Chapman]] discovered a new way of tapping with both han ...
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- Atonality
... 03. "Contemporary", in ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music: From Rock, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Folk, World and More'', pp. 271-272. Lond ...
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- Electronic drum
... any see this as a great advantage over acoustic drums, as one can have a [[jazz]], [[rock and roll|rock]] or [[ballad]] drumset by merely changing the kit ...
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