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Topic: Train sound |
Allan Haley
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 4 May 2017 6:02 pm |
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Hi steelers. Does anyone know how to do a train whistle sound on E9? I want the effect for a song. What notes are in a train whistle?
Thanks
Al |
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 4 May 2017 6:09 pm
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Just do a forward slant on something like strings 8 thru 6 and do roughly half step slids up, and repeat a few times. Do all this above the twelfth fret. Don't worry about the notes as it's totally dissonant. A little pumping of the volume pedal and you've got a train.
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 4 May 2017 7:03 pm
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Therr are many approaches.
I drop the Es, choose a fret between 3 and 7 that's unrelated to the key (if you play either root or 5,itll get reinforced by the gang around you), play the chord from about string 8 to 4 with octave harmonics,, give it a bit of bar shiver, then slide a few frets down to simulate Doppler shift.
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 May 2017 7:14 pm
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It also helps if you firmly strum the strings initially with the volume pedal off...then pump as described by Paul.
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 4 May 2017 7:32 pm Dave Hartley's Orange Blossom Special is best in my book
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Dave Hartley's Orange Blossom Special is best in my book
There are about 6 versions he does on youtube.
He uses an extreme forward slant around the 22nd fret with volume swell to get the coolest one I ever heard.
Not hard to copy that train sound, but the rest of what he does and like some whole other story!    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zkX_a9OQ8
If you like this then check out all his other versions of the tune too as well as just about everything he does.
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 4 May 2017 8:04 pm
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Different locomotives have different whistles - some are the same but there is no ONE chord or note.
For something like Folsom Prison, in E, try 7th fret A&B down. Pick 3-4-5 together, slant your bar forward keeping 5 where it is, and then return to straight 7th fret. You can play around with it, I agree with Lane a good Doppler can be had by sliding down.
If you give a couple "blasts" of the whistle after the 8 notes on the intro to that song, in the same key, it seems to fit right in. Other songs may sound better with something different. |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 5 May 2017 3:52 am
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Alan,I'm gonna send you an email!
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Daniel Morris
From:
Westlake, Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 May 2017 5:45 pm
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I sometimes use 5-6-8 around the 3d fret (E9), song in E, F lever (raising Es to Fs). An octave higher can also work. Depends on if you're shooting for horns or whistles, but these are all options here.
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