Sentence examples for bend notes from inspiring English sources

For most naysayers, it's a perceived lack of musical accuracy that's the problem, for Coleman likes to bend notes and vary pitch to communicate emotion.

Human musicians working alongside these sampled sounds had to work out how to play quarter tones and bend notes through contortions of lips and fingers.

Instead of the note ending after he struck the key, he wanted to shape and slide the sound from the piano just as a guitarist could bend notes.

She can bend notes and inflect a phrase with the raspy poignancy of a great blues singer like Mississippi John Hurt.

"I wanted to be able to slide and bend notes as I'd learnt to do with the violin, and so decided to take all the frets off the bass guitar," he explained.

Disarmingly, he once explained that his guitar technique was partly based on his lack of skill: "I started to bend notes because I could never play in the bottleneck style, like Elmore James and Booker White.

Frequently, his improvisations include adding random splashes of colour, bending notes and substitute chords.

She phrased like a soul singer, teasingly bending notes and making her improvisations continuous.

Ms. DeLaria swings hard, scats and bends notes like a pro.

Her singing voice has an instrumental quality; she bends notes like a clarinetist.

For 400 years, members of the Khan family of Calcutta have been bending notes in remarkable ways.