- Rock Band
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- Rock Band 2
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- Guitar Hero World Tour
... a real guitar to rock music, Guitar Hero World Tour also expanded to include the use of drum and vocal peripherals. Furthermore, the game allows users ...
... areer without having to restart. There are four total instrument career modes within the game: lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and rhythm guitar.
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- Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades
... er path: lead guitar, bass/rhythm, and guitar duels. The two-player Duel mode returns, and you can play against any DS version of Guitar Hero, and, usin ...
... s" by using a guitar pick-shaped stylus on the touch screen. The strumming detection has been improved in response to complaints from the first game.[3]
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- Harmonix Music Systems
| founder = [[Alex Rigopulos]], [[Eran Egozy]]
| industry = [[Video game|Software & Programming]]
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- Guitar
... itar''' is a [[musical instrument]] with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six [[Strings (music)|strings] ...
... l gut, or more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Guitars are made and repaired by [[luthier]]s.
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- Bass guitar
|image_capt=A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass
... some authors claim that they are historically accurate (e.g., "How The Fender Bass Changed The World" in the references section). </ref> or simply '''b ...
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- Drum kit
... as has a bass drum, floor tom, snare drum, tom-toms, hi-hat cymbals, a [[ride cymbal]] and a crash cymbal.
In [[jazz]], however, the [[ride cymbal]] and hi hats (or brushed snare drum and hi hats) usually fill this ...
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- Microphone
... ecorder]]s, [[hearing aid]]s, [[motion picture]] production, live and recorded [[audio engineering]], in [[radio]] and [[television]] broadcasting and i ...
... [Image:Microphone U87.jpg|thumb|upright|A [[Georg Neumann|Neumann]] U87 condenser microphone]]
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- Rock music
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- List of songs in Rock Band
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... ame, playing lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals. The [[Rock Band (video game)#Gameplay|gameplay in ''Rock Band'']] is comparable to [[Guitar Hero ...
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- Guitar Hero
{{two other uses||the first game in the series|Guitar Hero (video game)||Guitar Hero (disambiguation)}}
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- Tremolo arm
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2008}}
... 1980s-era [[shred guitar]] "dive bombing" effect. It may also be used outside its socket for different effects, as in [[Whammy Tapping]].
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- Fender Stratocaster
{{Infobox Guitar model|title=Fender Stratocaster
|manufacturer=[[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]]
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- Pull-off
==Description==
... . This transition also consumes some of the vibrational energy in the sounded string, with the effect that the second note is generally much quieter th ...
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- Tom-tom drum
The tom-tom drum was added to the [[drum kit]] in the early part of the 20th century.
== Design history ==
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- Hi-hat cymbal
... |thumb|10" Mini-hats with (1) Hi-hat rod and clutch (2) Tom and cowbell holder (3) HiHat legs and pedal]]
== History of development ==
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- Bass drum
... bass drum''' is a large [[drum]] that produces a note of low definite or indefinite [[pitch (music)|pitch]]. There are three general classifications of ...
... , about 36" in diameter, and is played with one or sometimes two large, padded [[mallet]]s. Usually the right hand plays the drum and the left hand muff ...
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- Fill (music)
... s in every song. Some groups use previously composed fills as part of the identity of a song. [[The Eagles]], for example, play the same fills each time ...
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- Cowbell (instrument)
... ts, its origin can be traced to freely roaming animals. In order to help identify the herd to which these animals belonged herdsmen placed these bells ...
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