An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses.The most common guitar pickup uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction.The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker.Since the output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, the signal may easily be altered using electronic circuits to add ''color'' to the sound.Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion. Invented in 1931,the electric guitar became a necessary as jass musicians sought to amplify their sound in the big band format.During the 1950s and 1960s,the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.It has evolved into a stringed musical instrument that is capable of a multitude of sounds and styles.It served as a major component in the development of rock and roll and many other genres of music.
A guitar amplifier ( or guitar amp) is an elctronic amplifier designed to amplify the elctrical signal of an elctricor acoustic guitar so that it will produce sound through aloudspeaker.Most guitar amplifiers can also modify the instrument's tone by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain frequiencies and adding elctronic effects.Vibrations of the strings are ''picked up'' by a suitable microphone.For electric guitars,strings are all made of metal, and the pickup works by elctro-magnetic induction. Acoustic guitars have a normal microphone,designed to convert acoustic vibrations into an electrical signal, but usually the do so from direct contact with the strings ( replacing the guitar's bridge) or with the guitar's body, rather than having a membrane like general-purpose microphones.
Keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Some other types of keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, carillons, which are highly different instruments made by man kind that are usually housed in bell tower or belfries of churches or other municipal buildings, and other non-acoustic instruments,such as various electronic organs, synthesizers, and keyboards designed to imitate the sound of other musical sounds. Today, the term "keyboard" is mostly commonly used to refer to keyboard-style synthesizer. Under the finger of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dyanamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other elements of expression, depending on the design and inherent capabilities of the instrument.
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.The lead is the featured guitar, which usually playssingle-note-based lines or double-stops in rock,heavy metal,blues,jazz,punk,fusion,some pop, and other music styles,lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar,which consists of accompanimen.
The bass guitar[1] (also called electric bass,[2][3][4] or simply bass; /ˈbeɪs/) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eightstrings. The four-string bass—by far the most common—is usually tuned the same as the double bass,[5] which corresponds to pitches one octavelower than the four lowest pitched strings of a guitar (E, A, D, and G).[6] The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.[7] While the types of basslines performed by the bassist vary widely from one style of music to another, the bassist fulfills a similar role in most types of music: anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat. The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock,country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz. It is used as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock and metal styles.
A drum kit, drum set[1] or trap set is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments set up to be played by a single player.[2]The traditional drum kit consists of a mix of drums (classified asmembranophones, Hornbostel-Sachs high-level classification 2) and idiophones(Hornbostel-Sachs high-level classification 1, most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell for example).[3] More recently kits have also included electronic instruments (Hornbostel-Sachs classification 53), with both hybrid and entirely electronic kits now in common use. A standard modern kit (for a right-handed player), as used in popular music and taught in many music schools,[4] contains:
One or more cymbals, played with the sticks, particularly but not only the right hand stick.
Most drummers extend their kits from this basic pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals, and many other instruments including pitched percussion. In some styles of music particular extensions are normal, for example double bass drums in heavy metal music. On the other extreme but more rarely, some performers omit elements from even the basic setup, also dependent on the style of music and individual preferences. All of these are unpitched percussion, allowing the music to be scored usingpercussion notation, for which a loose standard exists for the drum kit. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the scoring and most often positioning remains the same, allowing a standard teaching approach. The drum kit is usually played seated on a drum stool or throne.