Talk:Vamp (music)
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[edit] Examples
that still doesn't explain it quite enough for me to know.. how about some examples from several well-known songs from different genres and decades?
- What is confusing or needs explaining? How would the examples help you "know" what a vamp is? Hyacinth 11:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
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- The ostinato page has some good examples, both from jazz and rock music, that would probably help people with this concept. Most people, whether they know it or not, are well-acquainted with musical vamping. The trouble is that it's a bit hard to describe in an abstract way. Anyway, I'm just going to lift some of the ostinato examples and past them here. Buck Mulligan 19:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Only Jazz?
AFAIK there's a lot of vamping in metal, too. --84.173.11.216 16:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
- Big Business Actually led me here ;) --Morbid-o 19:44, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bluegrass
Any bluegrass experts out there? In my first exposure to the term in the late 60s, it always referred to an ostinato that featured violin ("fiddle" in bluegrass parlance). Refer to the essential vamp song "With A Vamp In The Middle" by John Hartford: "Well, I wrote this song with a vamp in the middle. And I knew when I wrote it, that I'd written it for the fiddle". I also recall hearing a number called "the vamp from Hey Jude" and it was a jam (on fiddle) of the Hey Jude outro, if I remember correctly.
It also seems to have lots of common usage in bluegrass as a synonym for "to jam," mostly as rhythm section (as opposed to lead riffs) -- some citations: "So he could vamp"[1] "vamp into the night"[2] "When one player was involved in their solo the other players would vamp along..."[3] Gekritzl 18:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vamping: attribute of all types of music
I came across the term vamping while listening to Pandora. Apparently, vamping appears in ALL types of music, including classic rock and heavy rock; not merely in "jazz, gospel, soul, and musical theater" as the introductory sentence suggests. Thoughts anyone? ~ Rollo44 22:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- I think we want to defer to usage -- I have never heard any of my rock or jazz musician friends use the term "vamp". They would probably stare at me like a dog looking at a ceiling fan if I used the term. We "riff", we "solo", we improvise, we ad lib, we even "noodle". I have only heard the term in reference to bluegrass and country, normally referrring to a fiddle-intensive interlude. --GeĸrίtzĿ...•˚˚ 00:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gekritzl (talk • contribs)
