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Extended Techniques for the Classical Guitar - Robert Lunn Composer

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CHAPTER 3<br />

PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS<br />

<strong>Composer</strong>s during <strong>the</strong> last hundred years have often used <strong>the</strong> guitar as a<br />

percussive instrument by hitting <strong>the</strong> strings or <strong>the</strong> body of <strong>the</strong> guitar. I will discuss three<br />

basic types of percussive sounds in this chapter. The first is string percussion. This<br />

involves hitting <strong>the</strong> strings at various points to get different sounds. The strings can be<br />

struck on <strong>the</strong> fretboard to get <strong>the</strong> added sound, or a special quality can be achieved by<br />

hitting <strong>the</strong> strings without <strong>the</strong> string hitting <strong>the</strong> fretboard. The later is called <strong>the</strong> tambora<br />

effect and is discussed in section 3.2. The final percussive sound involves hitting <strong>the</strong><br />

wood of <strong>the</strong> guitar, called body percussion, and this is discussed in section 3.3.<br />

3.1 String Percussion<br />

Example 3.1 Right hand percussive sounds in movement 4, “Spirits,” from Shadows<br />

by William Albright. Page 11, System 5.<br />

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