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In the earliest Rock and Roll styles of the late 1940s to early 1950s, a piano was normally the lead instrument in the band. The occasional saxophone sometimes led but it wasn't very often. From the middle to late 1950s the piano and saxophone fell out of style and they were gradually replaced by a guitar. Rock and Roll was usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead and one rhythm), a string bass (added after the mid 1950s), an electric Bass Guitar and a drum kit (to provide a rhythm/beat).

The central and linking instrument of Rock and Roll was the Electric Guitar. Charlie Christian was the first person to perform using the amplified (electric) guitar as a solo instrument, but many musicians since him, such as Aaron Thibeaux Walker, Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana have used it in their shows. You take some music music, a finger-popping and stomping beat, a guitar solo that sounds so sweet, you know that It Will Stand!

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