Recommend me some "tremelo" songs
05-04-05, 01:22 AM
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Recommend me some "tremelo" songs
Could everyone please recommend me some songs (ANY genre/group/year) that incorporate "tremelo."
Tremelo, which is a guitar effect that sounds like a quickly repeated echo, can be heard in the opening riff of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," The Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do is Dream," and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". I really like the echo it uses and if you know any songs which feature tremelo, please post.
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Tremelo, which is a guitar effect that sounds like a quickly repeated echo, can be heard in the opening riff of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," The Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do is Dream," and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". I really like the echo it uses and if you know any songs which feature tremelo, please post.
Thanks!
05-04-05, 07:16 AM
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Steve Vai kicks ass when he uses the Whammy bar or tremelo. Any of his CD's will give you a kickass sampling of what can be done. He uses the floating kind of tremelo with a scooped out area on the guitar so he can have a wide range. He can lower the slack or tuning of the guitar and with the scopped out area he can increase the tension of the strings to make the pitch go up.
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05-04-05, 07:31 AM
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Here is an online list of some songs -
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vrbass...atoneSongs.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vrbass...atoneSongs.htm
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The first person that came to mind when thinking of the whammy bar was Steve Vai. No one else comes to mind as a HUGE user of it...
One song I like the very limited use of it is "Aces High" by Iron Maiden...there's just a little part that he (Adrian Smith I believe) does it in that just sounds very cool.
Now that I think about it, more often than not Kirk Hammet uses it quite a bit in his solos.
One song I like the very limited use of it is "Aces High" by Iron Maiden...there's just a little part that he (Adrian Smith I believe) does it in that just sounds very cool.
Now that I think about it, more often than not Kirk Hammet uses it quite a bit in his solos.
05-05-05, 06:30 AM
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Guys, he's not talking about the whammy bar 
How Soon is Now and Planet Telex are the examples I thought of myself. I have a Boss PN-2, the hard to find pedal used on PT. Great pedal.
How Soon is Now and Planet Telex are the examples I thought of myself. I have a Boss PN-2, the hard to find pedal used on PT. Great pedal.
05-05-05, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
Guys, he's not talking about the whammy bar
How Soon is Now and Planet Telex are the examples I thought of myself. I have a Boss PN-2, the hard to find pedal used on PT. Great pedal.
How Soon is Now and Planet Telex are the examples I thought of myself. I have a Boss PN-2, the hard to find pedal used on PT. Great pedal.
Here's BOSS' "Tremelo" pedal which is a new version of the PN-2 There are audio samples on the page.
05-05-05, 02:24 PM
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You guys are mixing up your guitar effects - what you've been describing (a repeating echo) is the effect you get from a delay pedal. This is what is used in most of the songs listed above.
Tremelo is more of a "wave" effect - almost as if you're under water.
Tremelo is more of a "wave" effect - almost as if you're under water.
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05-05-05, 03:33 PM
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Nod...I thought there was some confusion in this thread somewhere...so the original poster's idea of a tremolo and the description of what it does is accurate?
I thought a tremolo was another (perhaps more....official?...) word for the whammy bar. The OP's description did NOT sound like a whammy bar thing though...
EDIT to add: if it's an echo thing you're looking for...I know Vai has done quite a few things with that too, including a really cool track from "Passion & Warfare" (I believe it's Ballerina) where the echo actually does something really wacky...like go an octave higher and lower on the echo. It sounds like the guy's got 40 fingers picking and working the fretboard. It's quite amusing.
I thought a tremolo was another (perhaps more....official?...) word for the whammy bar. The OP's description did NOT sound like a whammy bar thing though...
EDIT to add: if it's an echo thing you're looking for...I know Vai has done quite a few things with that too, including a really cool track from "Passion & Warfare" (I believe it's Ballerina) where the echo actually does something really wacky...like go an octave higher and lower on the echo. It sounds like the guy's got 40 fingers picking and working the fretboard. It's quite amusing.
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05-05-05, 03:56 PM
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"Loud Love" by Soundgarden. The echo turns into Cornell's voice. Sweet.
05-05-05, 03:59 PM
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All a whammy bar does is make your pitch go up or down a few notes, depending on how far you push/pull the bar - it's like bending a note, and if you do it fast the effect that it is most similar to is vibratto.
Delay is what is used in Green Day's Blvd. of Broken Dreams and The Smith's How Soon is Now along with most of U2 songs, as delay is an effect that The Edge uses a lot of.
Tremolo, as I described above, is not like either of these - depending on it's rate and wave-length, it might sound like a really fast delay, but used properly, it should sound more like a sustained note that has it's volume go quickly up and down, but never disappear entirely. The Nancy Sinatra song pointed out above is a good example of tremolo.
Delay is what is used in Green Day's Blvd. of Broken Dreams and The Smith's How Soon is Now along with most of U2 songs, as delay is an effect that The Edge uses a lot of.
Tremolo, as I described above, is not like either of these - depending on it's rate and wave-length, it might sound like a really fast delay, but used properly, it should sound more like a sustained note that has it's volume go quickly up and down, but never disappear entirely. The Nancy Sinatra song pointed out above is a good example of tremolo.
05-06-05, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by slop101
All a whammy bar does is make your pitch go up or down a few notes, depending on how far you push/pull the bar - it's like bending a note, and if you do it fast the effect that it is most similar to is vibratto.
Delay is what is used in Green Day's Blvd. of Broken Dreams and The Smith's How Soon is Now along with most of U2 songs, as delay is an effect that The Edge uses a lot of.
Tremolo, as I described above, is not like either of these - depending on it's rate and wave-length, it might sound like a really fast delay, but used properly, it should sound more like a sustained note that has it's volume go quickly up and down, but never disappear entirely. The Nancy Sinatra song pointed out above is a good example of tremolo.
Delay is what is used in Green Day's Blvd. of Broken Dreams and The Smith's How Soon is Now along with most of U2 songs, as delay is an effect that The Edge uses a lot of.
Tremolo, as I described above, is not like either of these - depending on it's rate and wave-length, it might sound like a really fast delay, but used properly, it should sound more like a sustained note that has it's volume go quickly up and down, but never disappear entirely. The Nancy Sinatra song pointed out above is a good example of tremolo.
05-07-05, 08:11 AM
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It's more subtle than the Nancy Sinatra example, but I think Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" might be what you're looking for.
What is the effect used in Duran Duran's "Come Undone"? It has kind of an underwater sound to it.
What is the effect used in Duran Duran's "Come Undone"? It has kind of an underwater sound to it.
