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Notation

Jun 18, 2024
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What are the notational equivalents of some techniques and effects, such as tremolo (I know it's not related to bass guitar), wah on bass guitar. It doesn't seem to have a notational equivalent to me. only curiosity
 
There is a convention for notating tremolo of various kinds, involving slashes on the stems.
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Though that is not a "hardware" tremolo, but classical the string player finger technique.
Tremolo is sometimes used interchangeably with vibrato.
However, a tremolo is a variation of volume (or amplitude)
Vibrato a variation of pitch (or frequency) - what a guitar 'tremolo' bar does


Typically , when effects is desired it is just written on the page, like so

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Çeşitli türlerdeki tremolo notalarının
gövdelerde eğik çizgilerle işaretlenmesine yönelik bir kural vardır .
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Gerçi bu bir "donanım" tremolo değil, klasik yaylı çalgıların parmak tekniğidir.
Tremolo bazen vibrato ile birbirinin yerine kullanılır.
Ancak tremolo, hacmin (veya genliğin) bir varyasyonudur.
Vibrato, perdenin (veya frekansın) bir varyasyonu - gitarın 'tremolo' çubuğunun yaptığı şey


Tipik olarak, efektler istendiğinde sadece sayfaya yazılır, bu şekilde

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There is an overdrive command on it, I know it is written like this in the notation, I mentioned the standard writing of the notes, without the command
 
There is a convention for notating tremolo of various kinds, involving slashes on the stems.
Though that is not a "hardware" tremolo, but classical the string player finger technique.
Tremolo is sometimes used interchangeably with vibrato.
However, a tremolo is a variation of volume (or amplitude)
Vibrato a variation of pitch (or frequency) - what a guitar 'tremolo' bar does

In sheet music for strings, the tremolo slashes are for the RIGHT hand and indicate that the player should BOW the note in quick back-and-forth repetitions; one slash means twice per note duration, two slashes means four, etc.. Vibrato is for the left hand and is almost always left to the player's discretion.
 
There's no standard of writing electronic effects on the notes , like there is for tremolo/vibrato

Music Techniques that have been around for more 150 years usually have some notation conventions.
Music Technology that is less than 100 years old has not had time for a convention to evolve.

Agreed. Something like wah would likely just be some text above the bar saying "use wah".