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Topic: Is there a term for this...? |
Dan Beller-McKenna
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Posted 10 May 2005 6:48 am |
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Is there a name for those high sweeping, sustained single notes one often plays in the background? Case in point: behind the fiddles in the intros to several of the songs on "Buddy Emmons sings Bob Wills" ("Deep in the heart of Texas," "New Road under my Wheels,"etc. ), but there are examples of this in thousands of cuts. I have always called them "whistle-tones" for lack of a better term, but all I find doing a search on "Whistle" are suggestions of how to make a train sound: not what I'm thinking of. Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Dan
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 10 May 2005 7:01 am
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They are called "harmonics" or "chimes".
With an open position (no bar on any frets) you can get harmonics at the 5th, 7th and 12th frets.
There are several methods for getting the harmonics, the most simplest method (with the open strings) is to put one finger (from your left hand) lightly on the string, e.g. at the 12th fret and then pick the string and remove your finger at the same time.
There are other methods that only use the right hand for harmonics and that is needed if you do them at any place on the neck other than the open position. |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 7:02 am
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You beat my post Jack!
[This message was edited by Jay Fagerlie on 10 May 2005 at 08:02 AM.] |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
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Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 7:04 am
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Well, no, not really:
Some times this effect is achieved with harmonics, but sometimes it is just a high note. In any case, I am trying to find a name for what is done with these pitches after they are struck, namely the swooping glissando usually to a much higher note.
Maybe there is no standard term for this(?)
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 10 May 2005 9:52 am
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There are times when you will "chime" and then do a "gliss" or slide the bar up the neck. This is done for backup, for example when the fiddles are playing.
I don't recall Buddy doing any "regular" picking of a note and sliding, from what I remember of that album it's all done with the "chimes" and sliding the bar. |
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 9:55 am
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| I've always called them whistles. |
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Joe Miraglia
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Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 10 May 2005 10:30 am
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| Works good backing keys or piano. Joe |
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Dan Beller-McKenna
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Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 11:01 am
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Jack,
I might well be wrong about some of them being regular notes (at least in the instance of this particular album), so perhaps we are talking about the same thing afterall. And if Bobby goes with "whistles" that;s good enough for me.
Thanks guys.
Dan
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Ray Riley
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 6:49 pm
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I assume you are talking about "High Melody Chiming" as in Big Jim Murphy's Steel on Hank Thompson's Blue Skirt Waltz. Ray
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