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Topic: One Of The Things I like About The Steel Guitar |
Chris Templeton
From:
The Green Mountain State
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Posted 26 Apr 2015 8:58 am |
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One of the things I like about the steel guitar compared to standard guitar is that when using vibrato on the steel, it commonly goes above and below the note, whereas on guitar, unless the player is using a "wang" or vibrato bar or bending a note up to the next note, a guitar player's vibrato is limited to going from the note and going sharp when adding vibrato,
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 28 Apr 2015 11:07 am
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Yes, I thought about it and it's true. You can't go below the note on standard guitar. A big difference.
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Jim Robbins
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 28 Apr 2015 12:10 pm
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You can if you use the classical guitar vibrato technique (which is like the vibrato violin and other string players use) - left hand finger rocks back & forth along the length of the string rather than pulling/pushing perpendicularly. It just doesn't sound very good in most non-classical contexts. It also isn't very wide.
I like the ease with which you can control vibrato on steel on a sustained note. |
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Curt Trisko
From:
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 28 Apr 2015 3:53 pm
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| When people watch me play, they fixate on my left hand and the vibrato is often the first thing they'll mention. We obsess about the right hand, but the left hand is what mesmerizes people. |
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James Leaman
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 30 Apr 2015 8:36 am
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| Actually you can go below the note with vibrato on regular guitar. If you use a prebent string for the note you can vibrato below it. Blues players do it all the time and David Gilmour uses it a lot. |
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