The bass guitar playing in traditional Turkish folk music: A sample of the TRT's broadcast

With the capacity to produce sustained sounds and its vocal range in the lower register that overlaps the pedal note in the traditional Turkish Folk Music, the bass guitar is used in a wide variety of genres in the field of music today by going through the structural development processes. In the years following the use of the "bass bağlama" instrument in our country, the bass guitar has also been used in music bands performing traditional TFM, and has become widespread with each passing day. This study aims to investigate the use of bass guitar that has gradually increased in traditional TFM in Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) broadcasts sample and the history of bass guitar playing in TRT broadcasts to show its development over a period of five years from 1980 to 2020 and melodic and harmonic accompaniment styles along with performance techniques, and also tries to put forward suggestions.