Sentence examples for bending notes of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Taylor began at a medium-high energy level, mimicking the bending notes of the blues and folding them into fast chording that landed in one tonal area for an exhilarating minute and then leapt elsewhere by rabbit reflexes.

These roots can be a drum kit, a bluegrass fiddle, folk dances from Mount Lebanon, DJ mixes, Arabic Maqam (modes), the bending notes of the sitar or the nay and infinite others.

And then the pH level bends notes out of tune, and also adds a bit of white noise to the sound.

When bending notes, draw from way down deep.

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.

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.

The music was ironbound, honky-tonk shuffles with a steel guitar and twin fiddles; that vocal style was a crisp baritone that never bent notes, ennobling every phrase of "Crazy Arms" or "I Won't Mention It Again" or "The Other Woman (in My Life)," making the deadbeats and emotional anarchists in the songs like stand-up guys.

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

And more than one song was saved by one of Mr. Melchiondo's overdriven solos; when he bends notes, it sounds as if his guitar is melting.

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.

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.