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Guitar techniques
The term “guitar techniques” covers a range of techniques typically associated with guitar music,
such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, and pitch alterations that use the vibrato bar on electric guitars.
RELATED LINKS
Input methods for guitar bends and guitar techniques on page 278
Tapping on page 779
Hammer-ons and pull-offs on page 780
Guitar bends on page 768
Guitar pre-bends and pre-dives on page 771
Guitar post-bends on page 772
Vibrato bar dives and returns on page 773
Bend intervals on page 774
Vibrato bar techniques
There are a number of different techniques that can be performed using the vibrato bar
on electric fretted instruments, typically guitars. In Dorico Elements, the available vibrato bar
techniques are categorized differently.
Vibrato bar dives
Vibrato bar dives indicate that the performer should use the vibrato bar to lower
the pitch after playing the note, so that the pitch falls after starting to sound.
This
technique is also known as a “dive bomb”.
In Dorico Elements, you can notate vibrato bar dives using jazz articulations to show
falling lines to the right of noteheads in combination with a vibrato bar indication.
Vibrato bar scoops
Vibrato bar scoops indicate that the performer should depress the vibrato bar just
before playing the note and then release the vibrato bar quickly, so that the pitch rises
after starting to sound.
In Dorico Elements, vibrato bar scoops are properties of notes, meaning they only
apply to single notes. By default, vibrato bar scoops only appear on notation staves
and are placed to the left of noteheads on the staff.
Vibrato bar dips
Vibrato bar dips indicate that the performer should use the vibrato bar to lower and
then raise the pitch by the
specied interval after playing the note.
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