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06-05-2006, 10:45 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Who invented Ghost Notes?
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Just was wondering about the origins of ghost notes. Where they used with Uprights, or did they get invented on the electric? Who invented them? What album? Any info on this would help. I'm a big fan of ghost notes and i thought it might be interesting to get some of the history. |
06-05-2006, 10:53 AM
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06-05-2006, 11:31 AM
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06-05-2006, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by j-raj ghosts... | Funny!!
I know I'm wrong but imma say Rocco!!  |
06-05-2006, 12:17 PM
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06-05-2006, 12:22 PM
| | | | I can't say conclusively, but I would suspect "ghosted" notes on electric bass had their origins from the upright, going as far back as the 1930's with Milt Hinton's slapping sltyle, which used alot of "ghosted" or "muted" notes.
As far as electric, Jamerson was doing it in the late 1950's. |
06-05-2006, 12:24 PM
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06-05-2006, 12:31 PM
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06-05-2006, 12:36 PM
| | | | no guys, don't you all know that it was in fact FLEA that created ghost notes! Along with the slap technique. |
06-05-2006, 12:36 PM
| | [acct disabled - multiple aliases] | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Venice, CA | | | The first guy to miss finger a note and noticed it worked. I doubt there really is an answer to this question. |
06-05-2006, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by steveb98 The first guy to miss finger a note and noticed it worked. I doubt there really is an answer to this question. | yeah, i was gonna say some guy that was learning to play bass and kept plucking the wrong string and went with it... |
06-05-2006, 12:49 PM
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06-05-2006, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by steveb98 The first guy to miss finger a note and noticed it worked. I doubt there really is an answer to this question. | Probably true,
There's the story of Roy Buchanan missing a note & instead hitting a 'pinched harmonic'/overtone (too much thumb skin hitting the string vs. the pick)...he wanted to do another take, the rest of those on the session assumed he did it on purpose & it stayed. Then he said he hadda re-learn waht the hell he just did.
For you trivia buffs, the record is from the '50s..."Potato Peelings" by Bobby Greg.
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06-05-2006, 04:54 PM
| | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | well im guessing all the comical responses means that no one has a clue. If Jamerson and Cogbill were doing them then i guess they probably were a derivative of the upright bass. |
06-05-2006, 04:59 PM
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Endorsing artist:see profile/Current Setup | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CHICAGO,IL. | | | Slam Stewart,Milt Hinton and George Duvivier just to name a few who were playing what is now known as Ghost notes way before electric Bass was even around. |
06-05-2006, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X Slam Stewart,Milt Hinton and George Duvivier just to name a few who were playing what is now known as Ghost notes way before electric Bass was even around. | thank you very much. |
06-05-2006, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X Slam Stewart,Milt Hinton and George Duvivier just to name a few who were playing what is now known as Ghost notes way before electric Bass was even around. |
thanks for agreeing with me in this otherwise inane discussion. |
06-05-2006, 09:12 PM
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Ghost notes originally were called what they really were,dampened notes.The term Ghost note did not come about until the very late 60's to early 70's with players like Jamerson,Rocco,Duck Dunn,Jerry Jermont etc.Dampened/ghost notes were/are the staccato emulation of a drum(usually a kick). |
06-05-2006, 09:23 PM
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06-05-2006, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X Ghost notes originally were called what they really were,dampened notes.The term Ghost note did not come about until the very late 60's to early 70's with players like Jamerson,Rocco,Duck Dunn,Jerry Jermont etc.Dampened/ghost notes were/are the staccato emulation of a drum(usually a kick). | very interesting. thanks for the insight. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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