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A bass player (bassist) is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). Certain musical genres tend to be associated with each of these instruments. Since the 1960s, the electric bass is the standard bass instrument for rock and roll, jazz fusion (and occasionally other forms of jazz), heavy metal, country, reggae and pop music. The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, Bluegrass, and Swing-era and Bebop-era jazz music. However, there are exceptions in both cases. Some 1990s and 2000s rock, pop, and punk rock/psychobilly bands use a double bass, such as Barenaked Ladies, Two Tons of Steel, Tiger Army, The Living End, HorrorPops occasionally. Some composers of modern art music use the electric bass in a chamber music setting, and some jazz big bands use electric bass.

Electric bass players

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Electric bassists play the bass guitar. In most jazz, rock, and pop genres, the bass line outlines the harmony of the music being performed, while simultaneously indicating the rhythmic pulse. In addition, there are different standard bass line types for different genres and types of song (e.g. blues ballad, fast swing, etc.). Basslines often emphasize the root, third, and fifth of the chords of the music. In addition, pedal tones (a repeated or sustained single note), ostinatos, and bass riffs are also used as bass lines.

Though less common, some bass players employ a polyphonic style of playing instead of a single-note melody, using full chords and double-stops to accent their basslines.

Double bass players

Classical double bass players of historical importance

Lists of double bass players

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Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan.
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Tiger Army is a psychobilly band that was formed in 1995 in Berkeley, California.

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The band played their first show at legendary venue 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, with AFI on March 29, 1996.
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The Living End is an Australian punkabilly band, based in Melbourne, Victoria. To date, they have released four studio albums in Australia, with two going to the number 1 position on the ARIA charts. They have also gained notable success in the United States and Europe.
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HorrorPops are a Danish band that formed in 1996. The band has their roots buried deep in new wave, punk rock, surf rock, and rockabilly.

History

Band founders Patricia Day and Kim Nekroman first met when Day's now-defunct band, the punk rock group Peanut Pump Gun, opened
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Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (April 9, 1763 - April 16, 1846), was an Italian double bass virtuoso. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in Vicenza.
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Giovanni Bottesini (December 22, 1821 - July 7, 1889) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.

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Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age
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Franz Simandl (1840 - 1912) was a double-bassist and pedagogue who is remembered most for his New Method for the Double Bass, 30 Studies, and more advanced collection of studies, Gradus ad Parnassum.
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Edouard Nanny (March 24, 1872 – October 12, 1942) was a famous French double bass player, teacher, and composer. He was part of la Société de concerts des Instruments anciens.
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Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий) (July 26, 1874 –
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  • Max Dimoff
  • Larry Wolfe
  • Timothy Cobb
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  • Mark Dresser
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  • Paul Erhard
  • Diana Gannett
  • Barry Green
  • Gary Karr
  • Albert Laszlo
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  • Homer Mensch

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