Bassline

A bassline is a series of notes with tones that are low in pitch, roughly at least an octave and a half below middle C. Although in principle any bass part in any kind of music can be referred to as a 'bassline', typically the term refers to a repeated melody characteristic of most forms of pop, rock and dance music.

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Many types of musical ensemble include an instrument capable of playing low-pitched notes; examples include the cello in the string quartet and the bass guitar in the rock band. Keyboard instruments such as the piano are capable of playing bass and treble parts together, which partly accounts for their large solo repertoire. The pipe organ has the lowest range of all common instruments, and has a set of foot-pedals specificaslly designed for playing bass parts.

Note: In music, a note is either a unit of fixed pitch that has been given a name, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its duration, or a specific instance of either, so one can speak of "the second note of Happy Birthday" for example. The general and specific m...

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Octave: : For other uses of the word octave, see Octave (disambiguation)....