And its Herb Ellis on drums....
Chip L
guitar. I use to think it was kinda hokey but found myself doing something
similar when our bass player takes solos.
I never could get my "pops" to sound like Herbs. Thought it was my guitar
(Washburn J-6/L-5 knockoff).. I've been muting the stings w/ left hand and
taping/popping the strings at the end of the fretboard. Mine are thin and
metally - Herbs gets a nice "bongo" pop.
Well, I got a Herb Ellis ES-165 this week and still can't make the pop.
What's Herb doing?
Chip L
Holger Weber
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You'll have to hit the fretboard pretty hard with your flat right hand. Try
hitting at an angle of 45° aiming at the edge of the fretboard and the top
two strings. A little reverb helps. I hit the fretboard at two different
spots for different beats, e.g. the 2 and the 2+ near fret 9 and the 4 near
fret 15 or vice versa. Muting with left hand is mandatory.
Hope that makes sense.
Holger
Joe Finn
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Russell Malone is really good at this too. He does it a little on that new
thing with Benny Greene. The key is to get a nice sharp thump with the
left hand while getting the right degree on dampening with the right.
..........joe
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Chip L
Should a right handed player damp w/ the right and thump with the left or
vise versa?
Holger Weber
> A bit confused (typical).
>
> Should a right handed player damp w/ the right and thump with the left or
> vise versa?
Damp with the left. Hit the fretboard with your flat right hand.
Joe Finn
> A bit confused (typical).
>
> Should a right handed player damp w/ the right and thump with the left or
> vise versa?
Chip:
The way I do it as a right handed player is to damp the strings with my left
hand and then tap with my right. I tap the strings so they hit the frets and
this is how to get the percussive bongo effect. When you tap the treble
strings up high then you get a high bongo sound and tapping the bass strings
down low gives you the low sound. I love the funny looks different drummers
give me when I do this.
Russell Malone used to do this when he worked with Dianna Krall on a song
called "Peel me a Grape". There's a line in that tune about popping a cork
and Malone taps his strings right afterwards to approximate the sound of
opening a bottle of champagne. Sound just like the bubbly is about to flow
too. .......joe
thomas
It's a two-tone bongo drum. The LH mutes all six strings; the
RH does the slapping. The low drum is a slap with the left edge
of your RH thumb on the two bottom strings at the 12th fret.
The high drum is a slap on the two high strings at the 15th fret
using the pads of your RH index and middle fingers together.
Remember to keep all strings muted with the LH.