Sentence examples for bending notes from inspiring English sources
Neal Schon was its front-and-center guitar player, bending notes into parabolas as big and sexy as rainbows.
Emotion in music depends on human shading and imperfections, "bending notes in a certain way," Ms. Cash said, "holding a note a little longer".
Occasionally Mr. Kaplan used his electric guitar to jolt the songs; when Mr. McNew sang "I believe in love," Mr. Kaplan suddenly blared out wrenching, bending notes.
"The Road to Kesan" features the clarinetist and singer Selim Sesler's band, bending notes every which way while two drummers boot the rhythm forward.
Monk managed to suggest that he was bending notes by striking one note sharply before another, almost as a grace note, and Moran sometimes uses this technique.
"That little video clip has changed my life," Mr. Shimabukuro said, sounding more humbled than prideful, before flying through the tune, bending notes and building to a crashing close.
Her singing voice has an instrumental quality; she bends notes like a clarinetist.
She can bend notes and inflect a phrase with the raspy poignancy of a great blues singer like Mississippi John Hurt.
He bent his knees and dodged and mugged, lifting his Fender Telecaster up and away from his body when he bent notes.
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.
He likes strong, slow melodies and connects them to speech; he bends notes with a kind of radical plaintiveness, jumping large intervals in one curving sigh.
