Blues is an amazing genre of music. On the one hand, it is simple – 12 bars, mostly the same shape. On the other hand, it’s incredibly complex and enlivening. Nowhere is this more evident than in blues singing, where one can have perfect pitch and rhythm and yet fall flat as a blues. singer […]
Tag Archives: Vibrato
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Mar
Mar
The whammy bar has many names: the tremolo bar, tremolo arm, vibrato bar, and twang bar. But in this article I will refer to it as the “whammy bar”. The whammy bar is a tool guitar players use to make a vibrato sort of sound on their guitar. The whammy bar has many uses, you […]
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Oct
Oct
The vibrato pitch of the note changes just as the vocal, the quality of the song. A guitar player’s vibrato is very important to their overall style – many guitar players who have vibratos as distinct as one note can simply “hear” and their name immediately enters your mind. (Note that in this article I […]