Keyboard bass
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Keyboard bass (shortened to keybass and sometimes referred as a synth bass) is the use of a smaller, low-pitched keyboard with fewer notes than a regular keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass in music.
History
Early keyboard bass
The pipe organ is the first, and the forefather of keyboard bass instruments. The bass pedal keyboard was developed in the 13th century. The keys for the hands are also capable of playing very low pipe tones.
1960s
The earliest keyboard bass instrument was the 1960
Fender Rhodes piano bass on top of his Vox Continental or Gibson G-101 organ to play bass lines. About the same time, Hohner of Germany introduced a purely electronic bass keyboard, the Basset, which had a two-octave keyboard and rudimentary controls allowing a choice of tuba or string bass sounds. The Basset was in due course replaced by the Bass 2 and, in the mid-1970s, the Bass 3. All three were transistorized; the Basset was among the earliest solid-state electronic instruments. Similar instruments were produced in Japan under the "Raven" and "Rheem Kee Bass" [sic
] names.
1970s and 1980s
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Moog Taurus (1976–1981)
In the 1970s, a variant form of keyboard bass,
Korg SB-100
"Synth-Bass".
1990s-present
Since the 1990s,
Jack White of The White Stripes uses a vintage Rhodes Piano Bass live, particularly on performances of "My Doorbell". During Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour, keyboardist and bassist Lanar "Kern" Brantley played synth bass on the Roland GAIA and Roland V-Synth.[2]
See also
References
- ^ SynthMania: Famous Sounds
- ^ "Roland Onstage with Lady Gaga and The Monster Ball Tour". Roland Users Group. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
External links
Media related to Keyboard basses at Wikimedia Commons- Information about early keyboard basses
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