Dickie Fredericks
Experienced
I know we can set the synth up to do this but can we simply sustain a single shell chord?
Reverb or Delay hold.
Not sure what a shell chord is.
How badly do you need it to be a chord? One thing I've been playing with is using an E-bow to sustain a note at a more or less constant amplitude, then I loop it - generally if you're careful, you don't hear the seam at the end of the loop. Then I engage half speed on the looper to drop the pitch and turn it into a very cool synth-y sounding backing for soloing.
Reverb hold is better in terms of seamlessness, but being able to drop the pitch in the looper makes that option a lot of fun for me.
Very cool thanks for posting this.
Kind of... but a simple 3 string/note chord that only has the root the 3 and either the 5 or 7. The idea is it’s the most basic chord that still contains all the harmony information.So a chord. Ok.
How badly do you need it to be a chord? One thing I've been playing with is using an E-bow to sustain a note
I'm curious, how do you like the E-bow? I'm intrigued.
So a chord. Ok.
When I think of a fairly specific chord... A7b9b5A fairly specific form of a chord.
Typically used more by jazz players to play basic harmony while comping for a singer or soloist or while playing melody and lines over top. Also, Eric Johnson use shell chords as arpeggios in Cliffs of Dover. Jens Larson and Rick Beato have excellent vids on YouTube showing great uses of shell voicings.So a chord. Ok.
From what I read of shell chords (never heard this term used before), the idea is to include a minimal number of notes to convey the harmony of the chord. From my past learnings, this is usually accomplished with the 3 and 7... Although adding the tonic is more defining, so 1, 3 and 7. These are "close voiced" chords.Eric Johnson use shell chords as arpeggios in Cliffs of Dover.
Correct. EJ uses drop 2 voicings.From what I read of shell chords (never heard this term used before), the idea is to include a minimal number of notes to convey the harmony of the chord. From my past learnings, this is usually accomplished with the 3 and 7... Although adding the tonic is more defining, so 1, 3 and 7. These are "close voiced" chords.
What Eric Johnson uses quite frequently are open voiced arpeggios... This is different. That is often (in his use) 1, 5 and 10 (3rd an octave higher) and 3, 1, 12 (5th an octave higher). The key here is that one note of the arpeggio is displaced an octave higher.
So a chord. Ok.
I think using a hold function to put down shell chords while you play over them would qualify as experimental jazz.
Maybe the Looper could give you what you need.