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Re: Can somebody please teach me some wangbar effects?

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Posted by Mike (from: 02-alba-025.dial.optilinkcomm.net) on October 16, 2000 at 21:25:44:

In Reply to: Can somebody please teach me some wangbar effects? posted by mr.speed on October 15, 2000 at 11:15:10:

: Hellow!Can somebody tach me some wangbar effects.Thanks!

Is there a special sound you have in mind. Can you hear it? I am addicted to the wammy bar and have been for several years. In fact, I no longer see it as an effect that is seperate from the music I play. How is the use of this tool to be learned?

First be very specific about the sound you need to hear in order to be happy with your playing.

I don't know if I can help you, but, I can share some of the learning experience that I have had with the wammy bar.

I began to use the wammy bar when I had been using a 4 track cassett recorder for a while. My solos sounded stiff and lifeless. Why? My left hand simply did not have a smooth, deep vibrato. My vibrato was more of a rapid twitch. Vibrato in the guitar or in the singers voice lends the strength of life and emotion.

So I begand to try to figure out how to get the control I wanted. I was given the hint in an article that was printed in - Guitar for Practicing Musicians -several years ago. Y. Malmstein was discusing his trem technique. He said something to the effect that he had noticed that singers will hit a note dead on... then begin to play with it. So I practiced a lick and weather the last note was a chord or a single note, I would cleanly play and while the note was still strong, I would use the wammy bar to get the smooth, deep, tremolo that I wanted to hear.

Natural tremolo with the fingers. What does natural tremolo with the fingers sound like? What does a singers tremolo sound like. Can you do it with a wammy bar? Yes. And of course there is Steve Vai!!!

I don't know if this will help you, but I hope it will.

Good luck

Mike

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: : Hellow!Can somebody tach me some wangbar effects.Thanks! : Is there a special sound you have in mind. Can you hear it? I am addicted to the wammy bar and have been for several years. In fact, I no longer see it as an effect that is seperate from the music I play. How is the use of this tool to be learned? : First be very specific about the sound you need to hear in order to be happy with your playing. : I don't know if I can help you, but, I can share some of the learning experience that I have had with the wammy bar. : : I began to use the wammy bar when I had been using a 4 track cassett recorder for a while. My solos sounded stiff and lifeless. Why? My left hand simply did not have a smooth, deep vibrato. My vibrato was more of a rapid twitch. Vibrato in the guitar or in the singers voice lends the strength of life and emotion. : So I begand to try to figure out how to get the control I wanted. I was given the hint in an article that was printed in - Guitar for Practicing Musicians -several years ago. Y. Malmstein was discusing his trem technique. He said something to the effect that he had noticed that singers will hit a note dead on... then begin to play with it. So I practiced a lick and weather the last note was a chord or a single note, I would cleanly play and while the note was still strong, I would use the wammy bar to get the smooth, deep, tremolo that I wanted to hear. : Natural tremolo with the fingers. What does natural tremolo with the fingers sound like? What does a singers tremolo sound like. Can you do it with a wammy bar? Yes. And of course there is Steve Vai!!! : I don't know if this will help you, but I hope it will. : Good luck : Mike

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