Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Martin himself characterised the slow movement as being: based entirely on a steady two-time beat, which serves as an accompaniment to the melodic elements: sometimes serene, sometimes dark and violent. A lyrical phrase first heard in the bassoon's upper register is repeated by the trombone with a gentle nobility at the conclusion. [1]
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is present ...
Martin Best (born 13 April 1942) [1] is an English singer, lutenist, guitarist, and composer.Best has been active mainly in early music including Renaissance music, minstrel songs and the French troubadour traditions, in works related to Shakespeare, such as the sonnets and music to Shakespeare plays, [2] and also in songs of the Swedish ballad tradition.
Fingerpicking guitar. A pick isn’t necessary. It is easier to play non-adjacent strings at the same time, or immediately consecutively. It is easier to play polyphonically, with separate musical lines, or separate melody, harmony and bass.
Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern [1] supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others. [2]
The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle) is a type of blues music, characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bassline pattern supports a melody using the treble strings. [1] The result is comparable in sound to ragtime or stride piano styles. [1]
Muehleisen had a natural finger-picking style that accentuated the higher registers of the Martins. Eventually both Muehleisen and Croce became some of the early artists to use Ovation guitars , known for the unique synthetic "Lyrachord Bowl" design on the back of the guitar, instruments often seen on their later television appearances.
The index (i), middle (m), and ring (a) fingers are generally used to play the melody, while the thumb (p) accompanies in the bass register adding harmony and produces a comparable texture and effect to that of the piano. The classical guitar is a solo polyphonic instrument.