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Instruments
Keyboard
Instrument whose sound is made by pressing down keys, eg piano, organ, electronic keyboard, and synthesiser. Listen to an example of multi-tracked sound from a synthesiser. embedded component
Rock and pop
Mainly electric guitars, bass guitar, drum kit, keyboards and whatever other instruments are added for further backing. Listen to an example of rock music
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Panpipes
Pipes which are graded in size and are bound together. The sound is made by blowing across the top of each of the pipes. One of the oldest wind instruments from South America. As is common now, these instruments are used in all kinds of commercial music. Listen to this excerpt, much of which is accompanied by synthesiser created sound.
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Distortion
An electronic effect used in rock music to colour the sound of an electric guitar. Listen to an example.
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Walking bass
A continuously moving bass line improvised on the notes of the chord with other notes added creating an independent musical line. Listen to this excerpt which has a walking bass and scat singing.
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Scat singing
A type of singing in which nonsense syllables are used instead of words, eg ‘Shoo wah doobie doo wah’. A technique usually used by jazz singers to imitate instruments. Listen to the example above. For more information visit Vocal Music.
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