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Bluegrass Vocals By Fred Bartenstein (unpublished paper, 4/27/10) All rights reserved. Not to be quoted without attribution or published without permission. There has been a lot more written about bluegrass instrumental techniques than there has about vocals.
That seems odd, because bluegrass performances and recordings almost always feature the human voice. A few concepts will help you to better understand and appreciate bluegrass singing. This short article will cover solo vocal styles, commonly used bluegrass harmonies, and suggested resources for listening. History and Overview Bill Monroe was the first bluegrass singer, but bluegrass wasn’t the first music he sang. Like many youngsters in the rural South, Monroe attended singing schools led by traveling music teachers. There he learned a simplified “shape-note” system of musical notation that had evolved from the one used in The Sacred Harp (1844), one of several early shape-note hymnbooks spawned by the Second Great Awakening and published during the 19th century.
When you hear people singing “fa-so-la-mi” syllables the first time through a gospel number, you’ll know you’re listening to shape-note singing. Monroe also heard unaccompanied ballads, some of them tracing to the British Isles and the Elizabethan era. Battleship Tamil Dubbed 720p Download more. Before people had newspapers, radio, or TV, they conveyed news and tragic or touching events through song. Parents commonly used ballads and hymns to quiet, amuse, or teach their young children – and to help pass the time while engaged in their work.
A third influence upon Bill Monroe and the rest of his generation was the music of the day, home-delivered through the new technologies of phonograph and radio. For the first time in history, rural dwellers could readily be exposed to the techniques of white and black performers in a variety of styles: folk and original music; popular ditties from Tin Pan Alley, minstrel shows and vaudeville; and, at least indirectly, the operatic sounds of singers like Jenny Lind or Enrico Caruso. All these influences found their way into the ears and out of the mouths of Bill Monroe and his contemporaries, as they created bluegrass singing techniques through the methods of trial and error, mix and match. Largely because Bill Monroe self-trained his adult voice into a tenor range, bluegrass songs are pitched in higher keys than those used in other genres – such as folk, country, cowboy, pop, blues, or gospel – where the same song material is likely to be found.
No less than three of the duo's other singles -- 'Hoping That You're Hoping,' 'You're Running Wild,' 'Cash on the Barrel Head' -- reached the Top Ten that year, and they also released the albums Tragic Songs of Life and Nearer My God to Thee. The Louvins' success in 1956 was particularly impressive when considering.
Whatever their gender or vocal part, bluegrass singers are likely to be vocalizing at the upper reaches of their range. This stylistic technique contributes to the intense and strident sound for which bluegrass is known (musicians like to call it an “edge”). One other explanation for the “high lonesome sound” may be found in Sacred Harp singing, where the highest-pitched male vocalists typically sing the melody line. Bluegrass singers hardly ever use vibrato (a slight and rapid variation in pitch) for coloration. Instead, they tend to value soulful vocal “turns” or ornamentations (short melodic figures used to vary a long-held note, as in “Ah-I am a ma-an of constant sorrow-ow-ow-ow”). As generations of artists have proven, virtually any song can be performed in bluegrass style.
Part of what makes the arrangement “bluegrass” is the rhythmic setting that is used – the particular tempos and syncopations. Bluegrass songs are also distinguished by characteristic methods of solo and harmony singing, and by particular types of vocal arrangements. Solo Singing Styles Bluegrass vocal styles can be categorized into four essential types. Two of the dimensions – “belting” and “crooning” – relate to the forcefulness of sound production. The other two – “rural” and “urban” – characterize the way of pronouncing song words. Most bluegrass singers can easily be classified within one quadrant of the resulting matrix: Belting (Production) Belting singing styles arose prior to the invention of microphones.
In order to be heard across long distances and over loud instruments, singers had to produce loud and forceful tones. Before telephones, elaborate “hollers” and yodels helped neighbors to stay in touch; these also influenced belting singing styles – including that of Bill Monroe who, recalling men hollering as they walked along the nearby railroad tracks, sought to include that sound in his music. Stylistically, belters employ their vocal power to rivet listeners’ attention to the lyrics. Crooning (Production) Microphones and sound amplification technology were invented beginning in the 1870s and to this day continue to be refined and improved. Access to the new equipment facilitated changes in instrumentation. String basses replaced tubas at the low end, and electric guitars replaced tenor banjos at the high end.
Likewise, singers rejoiced that their words could finally be understood, at a whisper or a roar, without having to yell. The new technique, which came to be known as “crooning,” was first associated with Bing Crosby in the 1930s, the very era when the early ingredients of bluegrass were being assembled.
Crooners use the microphone, subtle shadings, and ornamentation to add emotional depth to their singing. Rural (Inflection) People growing up in isolated areas develop distinctive ways of speaking and of singing. The people who made early bluegrass sang just as they spoke – for example, pronouncing the lyrics “on and on I follow my darling” as “own an’ own ah fallah mah darlin’.” In the modern era, few children escape the constant barrage of “standard” speakers on radio and TV, or the influence of well-meaning teachers trying to prepare youngsters for careers other than bluegrass singer. Today’s young vocalist with a rural inflection is probably from the South or a Southern migrant family, and/or attends a church where services are conducted entirely in rural speech patterns.
Rural-type singers tend to be influenced by the sounds of classic country and gospel music. Urban (Inflection) By “urban,” I really mean “not from the rural South.” Most modern American singers lack a distinct geographic accent. (In the ‘60s and ‘70s, Joe Val and Herb Applin brought their broad New Englandese to bluegrass standards such as “Hod-Hotted Hotbreaker,” “Come Wok With Me,” and “You’ll be Re-wadded Over There”). Urban-type singers tend to reflect influences of rock ‘n roll, rhythm and blues, pop, and jazz music. Singers with international accents are becoming more common in the worldwide bluegrass scene, and I would include them in this category as well.
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