The Sky Tunnel Entrance On The Hilltop
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Hey everyone. I was just wondering what u have to do to bow a guitar. My gf just bought a violin bow for her fender and we can't even get it to make a sound. Any suggestions?
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It's not normal to bow a guitar in my experience (as a string player) and rosin is the key, for sure. However, if you do manage to bow a guitar you'll be playing all strings simultaneously, as the fingerboard is flat (unlike the violin, viola, 'cello or bass ... which are, by design, arched).
Also - guitar strings TEND to be metal (at least the lower ones), no amount of rosin with help a violin bow make it make a decent sound, gut strings ... that's a different proposition.
I think you're right! I don't know for sure, but I seem to recall seeing Steve Howe doing that part on the lap steel, so the lapsus is mineNow, there I was thinking that Steve Howe's solo on "Soon" was a combination of the lap steel (which have very good sustain) and a volume pedal ...
Soubasse! Sorry to contra-dict you. I surprised a bassist friend late one night, when he visited me at the band house by the lake at Prudhommes near St. Catharines, Lake Ontario. He thought that since I was a full time musician, I would have heard the Yes album Relayer, with "The Gates of Delerium", a quiet section in the middle featuring the "soon, oh soon" vocals. I turned on the P.A. system, we sat back in the dark, looking over the distant horizon, and listened to it loud. Patrick Moraz was keyboardist/arranger for that one album and tour, already passed by. The next year I saw Yes in Buffalo with Rick Wakeman back on keys, and they only played the quiet part up to the ending. Steve Howe, a restless guitar player on his feet even with his classical approach, sat behind a double steel guitar with full pedals to sound like the record. He had no rings or accoutrements on his fingers. He didn't need them. Here's a Pink Floyd David Gilmour trick. This works on all strings, depending on what they are and what you use, but on a steel string guitar you can take a blues slide and rub it sideways quickly across the neck starting at the fifth to seventh fret to create sustained ringing harmonic overtones, used to great effect on "Echoes".