- Music video game
... and a specialized microphone as input and they are scored on their [[pure tone|tonal]] accuracy. These games typically remain linked to rhythm as well du ...
... r's reactions to elements of the landscape which in turn resulted from the tone of the background music. The game came with a soundtrack, but players were ...
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- MTV
... , [[Billy Joel]], [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], [[Hall & Oates]], [[Rolling Stones]], [[Rod Stewart]] and [[ZZ Top]] and forgotten acts such as [[Michael St ...
... pular but less image-centric or single-based acts. That year, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'''s [[Steven Levy]] wrote, "MTV's greatest achievement has been to coax ...
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- Guitar
... y, or they may rely on an [[amplifier]] that can electronically manipulate tone. Such [[electric guitar]]s were introduced in the 20th century and continu ...
... the essential features of a guitar being played is a 3,300 year old stone carving of a [[Hittite]] bard.<ref>[A Brief History of the Guitar http://w ...
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- Lead guitar
... s]], or sound [[compressor]]s, or [[double]]r effects for a more sustained tone, and [[delay (audio effect)|delay effects]] or an electronic "[[chorus]]" ...
... cially reproduce this as well. Other effects used to embellish lead guitar tone and pitch include the [[whammy bar]] which physically streches the strings ...
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- Bass guitar
... r configuration of a volume control for each pickup, and a single, passive tone control. The Jazz Bass' neck was narrower at the nut than the Precision ba ...
... processing|digital]] modelling circuits inside the instrument to recreate tones and sounds from many models of basses (e.g., [[Line 6]]'s Variax bass). T ...
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- Guitar Hero
... Get Dangerous" by Weezer, "Ruby" by The Kaiser Chiefs, "Adrenaline" by 12 Stones, "The Metal" by Tenacious D, and "Falling Down" by Atreyu <Ref>{{cite web ...
... sustained note, a player may use the whammy bar on the guitar to alter the tone of the note. Also, regardless of whether sustains are hit early or late, i ...
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- Fender Stratocaster
... boosts) treble and bass frequencies, affecting all the pickups; the second tone is an active midrange booster which boosts the midrange frequencies up to ...
... s a mellower, fuller and louder sound compared to the brighter and sharper tone of the bridge pickup. The middle pickup provides a sound somewhere between ...
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- Gibson Les Paul
... yers{{Fact|date=May 2008}}: it had a single P-90 pickup, simple volume and tone controls, and the unbound rosewood fingerboard bore plain dot-shape positi ...
... the Gibson model. These 1950s models featured the thicker, more sustaining tone of Gibson's [[humbucking]] pickups with the original units known as "Paten ...
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- Tom-tom drum
A crucial factor in achieving superior tone quality and ensuring durability, especially with wood, is the creation of ...
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- Hi-hat cymbal
... ymbals can alter the sound of the open hi-hat from a shimmering, sustained tone to something similar to a [[ride cymbal]]. When struck with a drumstick, t ...
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- Crash cymbal
... ic'' or ''Wagnerian'' (heavier) and ''Viennese'' (lighter); a third, rarer tone is known as ''French'' (lighter still). Clash cymbals are also used in sta ...
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- Bass drum
... times [[trigger pad]]s are used to amplify the sound and provide a uniform tone, especially when fast playing without decrease of volume is desired. Profe ...
Third bass is the middle drum, both in terms of position and tone. Its function is usually that of the archetypical bass drum. This player ...
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- Drum stick
... ly, thus dissipating much of the directed force and allowing for a quieter tone. The most common of these is the hot rod from Promark, though nearly every ...
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- Cowbell (instrument)
... American and [[go go]] music. These cowbells are struck with a stick - the tone being modulated by striking different parts of the bell and by damping wit ...
... . The cowbell sound in their 2005 single "[[Little Sister (Queens of the Stone Age song)|Little Sister]]" was actually achieved using a [[jam block]], bu ...
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- GameSpot
... go for all the wrong reasons. I believe CNET intends to soften the site's tone and push for higher scores to make advertisers happy."<ref name="frank">{{ ...
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- Metacritic
... xample, [[Amazon.com|Amazon's]] reviews), Metacritic manually assesses the tone of the review before assigning a relevant grade. Weighting is also applied ...
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- GamePro
... articleissues|article=1|cleanup = October 2007|unreferenced = October 2007|tone = July 2008}}
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- Time Magazine
... nd saw ''Time'' as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people still criticize as too light for serious news and more ...
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- FM radio
A 19 kHz [[pilot tone]], at exactly half the 38 kHz [[sub-carrier]] frequency and with a precise ...
... l from the [[stereo generator]] contains the Main Channel (L+R), the pilot tone, and the sub-channel (L−R). This composite signal, along with any other ...
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- Tapping
... guitar solo|solo]]. With the electric guitar, in this situation the output tone itself is usually [[distortion (guitar)|overdriven]] — although it is po ...
... ngs, to form familiar [[scale (music)|scalar]] patterns, or even 'outside' tones by randomly streaming through any chosen notes for mere show (often by us ...
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