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brukout Joined: Mar 28, 2007 Posts: 29	Posted on Apr 05 2007 10:30 AM when you slide down the fretboard and trem pick to make that cool swooping sound associated with surf music. tremolo slide ? — www.myspace.com/killsomefuckingtime Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 10:43 AM Glissando is the cold technical musical term; but tremolo slide also works for me. — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 10:49 AM http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/glissando http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tremolo I think both are present; i.e. you rapidly pick while descending...maybe a tremolo glissando? ;) — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
IronMaiden Joined: Nov 02, 2006 Posts: 564 Virginia Beach	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:02 AM or pizzicato glissando (muted) edit: not pizza, I'm hungry Last edited: Apr 05, 2007 11:04:44 Top
dwgregory1 Joined: Oct 30, 2006 Posts: 118 Baltimore, MD	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:03 AM Or: drdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdr duurrrghh! Top
JakeDobner Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:04 AM I don't think I've ever heard the term tremolo slide before. Top
ShaunNecro Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 524 Bay City (Michigan)	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:06 AM I thought it was called a glissando run. — I am super sweet www.myspace.com/thetremblors Top
Stormtiger Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2682 Ventura, CA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:21 AM From Wikipedia: Musical instruments with continuously variable pitch can effect a true glissando over a substantial range. These include unfretted stringed instruments (such as the violin, viola, cello and double bass and fretless bass guitars), stringed instruments with a way of stretching the strings (such as the guitar or sitar). True glissandi can be produced over a limited range on most instruments; for example, fretted stringed instruments (such as the guitar or mandolin) can effect a glissando by pushing the string across the fingerboard or by using a slide. This is commonly called note bending rather than a glissando. I know glissando is the accepted term for this but I think Staccato run would be more accurate. Fast double picking is not actually a variable pitch. It should have its own name since the effect isn't used in any other genre. Top
ShaunNecro Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 524 Bay City (Michigan)	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:23 AM Stormtiger From Wikipedia: Musical instruments with continuously variable pitch can effect a true glissando over a substantial range. These include unfretted stringed instruments (such as the violin, viola, cello and double bass and fretless bass guitars), stringed instruments with a way of stretching the strings (such as the guitar or sitar). True glissandi can be produced over a limited range on most instruments; for example, fretted stringed instruments (such as the guitar or mandolin) can effect a glissando by pushing the string across the fingerboard or by using a slide. This is commonly called note bending rather than a glissando. I know glissando is the accepted term for this but I think Staccato run would be more accurate. Fast double picking is not actually a variable pitch. It should have its own name since the effect isn't used in any other genre. That sounds good to me. — I am super sweet www.myspace.com/thetremblors Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:30 AM Well fast double picking while sliding your fretting fingers down the fretboard is what I thought the original poster was asking about (e.g. First few seconds of Pipeline). That's a glissando since the pitch is changing. But I think I like drdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdr duurrrghh! better. — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:31 AM P.S. Wikipedia authors are often high. — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
Stormtiger Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2682 Ventura, CA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:40 AM P.S. Wikipedia authors are often high. I agree and I am the first person to have serious doubts about Wikipedia, but if their definition is anywhere near correct, the pitch would have to change without the picking to be a true glissando. Anybody using an Ebow for surf? Top
JetBlue Joined: May 30, 2006 Posts: 746 Cool, CA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:46 AM Brian P.S. Wikipedia authors are often high. — Don Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:47 AM I see what you mean. I'm no music major, but I always believed these terms are kind of loose. The conductor points at some random guy in the orchestra and says "do a glissando"...the guy is just going to produce a descending tone. Whether the guitar player picks while doing this isn't all that interesting to me. But yeah, definitely in the surf idiom there is a great deal of picking involved. ;) — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
Stormtiger Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2682 Ventura, CA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:56 AM Let's just call it the Dick Dale Run, since that is something I think he really did invent. We don't need no stinkin' glissandos. Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19270 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Apr 05 2007 12:08 PM And even if he didn't invent it, the addition of the volume (Showmans), reverb, heavy strings, and playing style definitely made it his own. That is one thing just about everyone copies. — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
WR Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 3832 netherlands	Posted on Apr 05 2007 02:21 PM in our band we call it a swinger or surf swinger (the dutch translation of which has the connotation of a golf club swing - hey golf music back again!-i.e. "zwieper" for those who read Dutch) — Rules to live by #314: "When in Italy, if the menu says something's grilled, don't assume it is." https://www.facebook.com/The-Malbehavers-286429584796173/ Top
PolloGuitar Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 5092 San Francisco	Posted on Apr 05 2007 02:41 PM Japanese translation: "Teke Teke Teke" --ferenc — Buy Speed of Dark @ Bandcamp Buy Spin the Bottle @ Bandcamp My Blog- Euro Tour Blog Pool Boys on Spotify INSTAGRAM Frankie & The Pool Boys on FB Pollo Del Mar on FB DJ Frankie Pool Boy on North Sea Surf Radio Top
brukout Joined: Mar 28, 2007 Posts: 29	Posted on Apr 05 2007 03:58 PM hahahaha im just gonna call it teketeketeke. what a cool picture — www.myspace.com/killsomefuckingtime Top
WR Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 3832 netherlands	Posted on Apr 05 2007 04:00 PM too cool! Ferenc, is there a hi-res version somwhere? I think I need that on my wall. — Rules to live by #314: "When in Italy, if the menu says something's grilled, don't assume it is." https://www.facebook.com/The-Malbehavers-286429584796173/ Top

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