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Harmonics over fiddle
Posted: 13 Mar 2016 12:23 pm
by Thomas Webb
Hello,
Im working on harmonics and where to place them within a song. I know that I've heard lots of songs with a high winding Harmonic part on top of a fiddle or twin fiddle intro or break in a song. Would anybody have Any suggestions for classic country or western swing songs that would have good examples of this treatment? I just want to study a bunch of recordings and try to see how they build their lines.
Thanks very much.
Tom
Posted: 13 Mar 2016 4:02 pm
by Donny Hinson
Posted: 13 Mar 2016 4:07 pm
by Wally Moyers
My Dad taught me to do it mainly over Western Swing type songs.. Usually over intros, turnarounds, twin fiddle parts but not over the fiddle solos so much.. He always told me, when in doubt, don't...
Posted: 19 Mar 2016 5:49 pm
by Lyle Clary
I wish somebody's Daddy would have told Bob Wills not to hollar over the instruments and singing in the band.
Posted: 19 Mar 2016 6:31 pm
by Wally Moyers
Lyle Clary wrote:I wish somebody's Daddy would have told Bob Wills not to hollar over the instruments and singing in the band.
I don't think anyone told Bob what to do..
Posted: 19 Mar 2016 8:18 pm
by Edward Rhea
Almost anything Amber Digby/Dicky Overby recorded...prepare to become a fan!
Posted: 20 Mar 2016 2:08 pm
by Steve Hinson
Lyle Clary wrote:I wish somebody's Daddy would have told Bob Wills not to hollar over the instruments and singing in the band.
I saw an Amazon review of a Bob Wills record and the person said"I really like the music but some guy keeps hollering during the songs"...
Harmonics
Posted: 20 Mar 2016 4:02 pm
by Jay Dee Maness
What Wally said. Just don`t overdo-it.
Posted: 20 Mar 2016 5:27 pm
by Bill Cunningham
I am on a plane at the moment and don't have bandwidth to listen to Donny's YouTube recommendations but on a lot of those old records they played the harmonics with your palm instead of the more modern or conventional knuckle/finger tip technique. And making them a 6th chord instead of a single note is a nice variation.
Posted: 20 Mar 2016 5:31 pm
by Skip Edwards
I'm with Bill on the palm thing… a single note harmonic that slides up to another note.
Personally, I just figured that the reason you always hear the steel do the single note harmonic dealie during the fiddle solo is because otherwise it's just to hard to sound in tune with those guys...
Posted: 20 Mar 2016 6:04 pm
by Wally Moyers
The first way I was taught to chime was with my palm too.. Not as pretty of a sound but fatter.. I'm with you Skip on the tuning.. The hardest band I ever played with tuning wise was two fiddles, fretless bass, steel and drums.. Interesting to say the least.. Thank God one of the fiddle players was Johnny Gimble..