[LAU] Ok, dumb question..

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Tue Feb 24 04:28:28 EST 2009


Darren Landrum wrote:
> Florian Schmidt wrote:
>> On Saturday 21 February 2009, alex stone wrote:
>>
>>> This might be a dumb question to devs, but from a user's perspective,
>>> what's Vamp, and what does it do?
>> Just to add another note: In jazz, a repetetive riff or lick or chord
>> change or whatever is sometimes called a vamp, as in:
>>
>> |Let's vamp on |Dm7 G7| for 16 bars and then play it from the top"
>>
> 
> An attractive woman who uses her sex appeal to bring ruin upon men is
> also called a vamp.
> 
> We could play this game for ages.
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> -- Darren

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hearted_Hannah

Ayup.  A good old standard ;-)

Gordon



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