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Topic: What's the music term for.... |
Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 7 Aug 2017 2:09 pm |
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Hitting a note flat, then pulling up to pitch, a la the Mills Brothers' common device.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Aug 2017 3:22 pm
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| Glissando? |
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Joseph Napolitano
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2017 6:22 pm
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| Me fixing a clam |
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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2017 7:52 pm
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| Joseph Napolitano wrote: |
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Three possibilities come to mind, depending on what the sound you're referring to is ( I'm not too familiar with the Mills Brothers): portamento, appoggiatura, or grace note. |
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Guy Cundell
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More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 12:40 am
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| Inflection |
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 5:16 am
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It's either an Oooops or an Aw Chit, depending on whether I get away with it or not.  |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 5:39 am
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Barry is right - in reality it is a type of glissando. My score-writing software (Sibelius) calls it a "scoop". (Hitting a note true and then pulling it up is a "doit".)
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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 6:09 am
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My trusty Schirmer Pocket Manual of Musical Terms says:
Scoop: Vocal tones are "scooped" when taken, instead of by a firm and just attack, by a rough portamento from a lower tone. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 6:21 am
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The scoop sounds good.
I tried to find a YouTube of the effect. They'd hit a half note a semitone flat, hold it around a dotted 8th note (a bit less than a quarter, anyway) then pull it up in time to hold it at pitch for almost a quarter note.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Roy Carroll
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North of a Round Rock
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Posted 8 Aug 2017 9:42 am
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All the years I was in Smashville, all of the background singers called that a "pedal"
moving from a true note to a flat note and back to the true note.
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