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Jimmy Haslip's solo on 'the fifth' - what's going on ?


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I'm doing a lot of transcribing at the moment.

One of the ones I'm doing is Jimmy Haslip's solo on the Allen Holdsworth song 'the fifth'.

It's a live version from the 'blues for Tony' album.

Here's the start of the solo -

[url="https://soundcloud.com/ambientbassist/02-the-fifth-copy"]https://soundcloud.com/ambientbassist/02-the-fifth-copy[/url]

I've slowed it down using transcribe, what's going on with the first note ?

It sounds odd at normal speed, but here slowed down it's as if he's trilling between another note at a ridiculous speed.

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I have the album, and I just put The Fifth into iRehearse and slowed it to 50%. I can't hear anything like your soundcloud link, the notes are single hits, so I reckon it's your Transcribe software glitching. It would be bordering on superhuman ability to tremelo that fast, even the fastest Flamencos wouldn't be able to.

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[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1390202479' post='2342460']
I have the album, and I just put The Fifth into iRehearse and slowed it to 50%. I can't hear anything like your soundcloud link, the notes are single hits, so I reckon it's your Transcribe software glitching. It would be bordering on superhuman ability to tremelo that fast, even the fastest Flamencos wouldn't be able to.
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It does sounds like one of those [font=courier new,courier,monospace][glitch(ˈɡlɪtʃ)|minimal][/font] albums I listen to!

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[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1390234207' post='2342919']
Here's the normal speed version.

[url="https://soundcloud.com/ambientbassist/02-the-fifth-copy-1"]https://soundcloud.c...he-fifth-copy-1[/url]
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Good grief !
Why do you need to slow that down by 50% ? :lol:[size=4] [/size]







[size=4] [/size][size=4]Only kidding, it does start to get a bit hairy later. :D[/size]

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1390239752' post='2343022']
Good grief !
Why do you need to slow that down by 50% ? :lol:







Only kidding, it does start to get a bit hairy later. :D
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I was trying to work out what was going on at the 3rd bar of the solo that's not actually in the bit I put on sound cloud. But that first part is quite noticeable at 100% speed, I was intrigued at what he was actually doing. It's not just one note.

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To me that first note (at normal speed) sounds like one heavy 'dug in' note against the fret on a very low action, not Flamenco style or trill.
The slowed down version really just sounds like software related. Some do extreme tempo manipulation better than others.

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[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1390243695' post='2343104']
I was trying to work out what was going on at the 3rd bar of the solo that's not actually in the bit I put on sound cloud. But that first part is quite noticeable at 100% speed, I was intrigued at what he was actually doing. It's not just one note.
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Trust me, it's NOTHING like what your 50% recording is. It's not that stuttery sound that came from your glitchy software. Try slowing it in iRehearse or similar. I slowed it 50% and it sounds like what lowdown suggests, at 25% it sounds like he's hitting it with two fingers together so he gets a fast slapback echo effect.

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