Comments on: beatboxing with a thumb piano http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano OBSESSED WITH VIBRATING AIR MOLECULES Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:55:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alastair http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-844 Alastair Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:59:54 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-844 Watch again! You add tremolo to the kalimba by waggling your thumb up and down over the sound hole whilst a note is playing ;) Great stuff though. Check out the scratching-on-rails that CDM just posted if you like this sort of thing: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/02/27/fretless-fader-dj-video-slide-the-crossfader-slide-the-pitch/ Watch again! You add tremolo to the kalimba by waggling your thumb up and down over the sound hole whilst a note is playing ;)

Great stuff though. Check out the scratching-on-rails that CDM just posted if you like this sort of thing:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/02/27/fretless-fader-dj-video-slide-the-crossfader-slide-the-pitch/

]]> By: Dan http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-842 Dan Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:28:58 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-842 Ah I see, he's bending tines that aren't ringing! Doesn't work on my kalimba here though, damn. :-) Ah I see, he’s bending tines that aren’t ringing!

Doesn’t work on my kalimba here though, damn. :-)

]]> By: Sarssipius http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-835 Sarssipius Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:58:01 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-835 The guy is amazing... Sweet!! The guy is amazing… Sweet!!

]]> By: admin http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-832 admin Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:59 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-832 Ah no, watch his fingers - he plays the note then he kind of hits a bunch of tines & bends them while the note is sustaining... you can see it at 0.21 Ah no, watch his fingers – he plays the note then he kind of hits a bunch of tines & bends them while the note is sustaining… you can see it at 0.21

]]> By: admin http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-831 admin Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:01:18 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-831 Yeah i wondered the same - its almost like a manual tremelo... could it be hes bending the bridge, like the whammy bar on a guitar? Yeah i wondered the same – its almost like a manual tremelo… could it be hes bending the bridge, like the whammy bar on a guitar?

]]> By: Dan http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/beatboxing-with-a-thumb-piano#comment-830 Dan Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:54:28 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=657#comment-830 Beautiful and amazing! Any idea how he's getting the kalimba to wobble like that? Beautiful and amazing! Any idea how he’s getting the kalimba to wobble like that?

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