Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..?


Musicians you can recognize after 6 bars (of music, not pubs) even if you don’t know the piece?

Mine would be

  • Miles Davis
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Pepe Romero
  • Dave Brubeck
oliver_reid

John Coltrane.

Miles Davis

Jimi Hendrix.

Eric Clapton.

Django.

Grappelli

Mark O'Connor, the fiddler.

Six bars? How did you settle on THAT number (as opposed to, say, four)?

Guitar: Chuck Berry, Albert King, James Burton, Dave Edmunds, Albert Lee, Ry Cooder, Jimi Hendrix.

Bass: James Jamerson, Rick Danko, Joey Spampinato, Jack Casady, Jack Bruce.

Drums: Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, Buddy Harman, Levon Helm, Roger Hawkins, Jim Gordon, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker.

Piano: Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Floyd Cramer, Spooner Oldham, Terry Adams, Stevie Wonder, Van Dyke Parks.

Dobro: Jerry Douglas.

Blues Harp: Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite.

Fiddle: Doug Kershaw.