Vamping

MonkeyTennis

Ive seen/heard this term with reference to music especially on pandora.com

Does anyone know what it means?

Robbo

I seem to remember it being the music that's played to the crowd at a gig before the main act comes out. I could, however, be wrong.

Tar.Aldarion

Um it could mean a woman who flaunts her sexual charm, To create with little skill, the art of providing rhythm back up for dancing, extemporize on a piano etc. I know a lot more...
I imagine on a place like Pandora, it is term that refers to prolonged improvisation over a repeated chord change.

dalk

Vamping is a guitar playing technique to change the sound. Its basically cutting the ringing of the strings by placing your fingers back on the strings right after they have been strummed... You dampen the strings with your fingers. Or you keep your strumming hand constantly on the strings to dampen the sound.

Think of piano pedals. You push the pedal so that there is no dampening,the notes ring for a long time. Release the pedal and the notes ring for a short time. Its similar to that.

Fusion251

It's none of the above I'm afraid...a vamp is a repeated rhytmic/melodic phrase that happens before a soloist comes in..usually the phrase "Vamp till ready" is on a lot of Jazz arrangments...it's just improvising until the melody is ready to begin..

Fusion

MonkeyTennis

well im glad thats cleared up

dalk

MonkeyTennis wrote:

well im glad thats cleared up

Fusion251 wrote:

it's none of the above I'm afraid...a vamp is a repeated rhytmic/melodic phrase that happens before a soloist comes in..usually the phrase "Vamp till ready" is on a lot of Jazz arrangments...it's just improvising until the melody is ready to begin..

Seems I should have said that, in reference to guitar when not playing jazz then vamping is as i described. Anyway, no idea where i picked up the word from and am likely to be using it incorrectly all these years, but managed to find reference to vamping guitar technique here. Which describes pretty much what i consider vamping to be on guitar.

So it seems a word can have more than one meaning :eek:

Fusion251

dalk wrote:

Seems I should have said that, in reference to guitar when not playing jazz then vamping is as i described. Anyway, no idea where i picked up the word from and am likely to be using it incorrectly all these years, but managed to find reference to vamping guitar technique here. Which describes pretty much what i consider vamping to be on guitar.

So it seems a word can have more than one meaning :eek:

Yeah it has a few meanings...mine is more right then the rest though...just cos...no questions asked...hahaha

Fusion

Tar.Aldarion

Fusion251 wrote:

It's none of the above I'm afraid...

Pandora.com wrote:

Q: What is "vamping"?

'Vamping' is a term that refers to extended improvisation over a repeated chord change.

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I imagine on a place like Pandora, it is term that refers to prolonged improvisation over a repeated chord change.

More right?

Fusion251

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

More right?

Yes MORE RIGHT. There is no room for grammatical correctness when putting a point across...

Fusion