THE INNOVATIVE STYLE OF THE BASS GUITARIST JOHN ENTWISTLE (BASED ON THE COMPOSITION MY GENERATION
THE INNOVATIVE STYLE OF THE BASS GUITARIST JOHN ENTWISTLE (BASED ON THE COMPOSITION MY GENERATION
Author(s): Alexandr VitiucSubject(s): Music
Published by: Academia de Muzică, Teatru și Arte Plastice
Keywords: bass guitar; John Entwistle; My Generation; The Who; performing technique;
Summary/Abstract: The present article examines the bass part in the composition My Generation, performed by bass guitarist John Entwistle. The analysis concerns the musician’s use of the minor pentatonic scale and the blues scale atop the small major chords of the seventh, which allows drawing analogies with the sound of early archaic blues. J.Entwistle’s commitment to a clear and accentuated meter-rhythmic base is of particular interest, since it was intended to reveal the character of the composition being performed. At the same time, the modification of rhythmic structures within the bars and the metro-rhythmic variability makeit possible to state the bass guitarist’s high performing mastery
Journal: Studiul artelor și culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 2 (49)
- Page Range: 28-33
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
