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I read the article. How come they didn't talk about Trills? These are very common in country music. Nora Jones uses alot of them as well. Did I miss something?

Al

What is a trill? Is it the one in Bonnie Rait's " I can make you love me"? I guess it was Bruce Hornsby who played the piano in that song.

Danb,
A trill is a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it.
Terry




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Doesn't have top be a semitone, in fact it's often a whole step above. In Back's time, the trills were played backwards fom toaday. You'd trill DOWN a step.

A classic trill comes to mind. From "YesSongs" Excerpts from Henry VIII. Listen to Rick Wakeman's trill's about 3/4 of the way through this piece. Reminicent of the damsel tied to the railroad tracks. It's really incredible the way he's worked it in.

You can almost visualize the honky tonk pianist, with the shirts stays above his elbows, stiff collar, bow tie...a saloon scene.

...Just my thots..

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Dave
Well I checked 4 music theory sources and every one said the same thing, here is the quote:

"trill - Ornament consisting of the rapid alternation between one tone and the next above it."

Terry

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Please don't begin another peeing contest here--all Glenn wants to do is play like Floyd.

Glenn, it's just a fingering technique, and the best advice I have is sit down and listen to some of Floyd's top hits, then try to copy the fingering technique--it's not that difficult.

Cheers,

Gary

Naaaah, that's easy... I wanna play like DonM!

Gary
Not sure how you see that as starting a peeing contest. According to the 4 music theory pages I checked my information is correct. I'm also not sure why you didn't post that same thing after Dave's comment either then?
Terry


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