Notation Question - What is the wiggle?

[Robermax]

From Kamihigashi's book.
Thanks for helping!
Bob

[joe2758]

I actually think it is vibrato

[James W]

Normally I'd say trill.

But seeing what book it's in then yeah, vibrato.

[Robermax]

I was guessing right hand tremolo but there are 2 votes for vibrato (actually 3- the third is not on this forum). Thanks for helping!

[pauln]

That is the music symbol Scoreggia Adesso indicating a sufficiently loud place in the score for a musician holding a fart to pass it without being audible. For those not needing to do so it serves as an alert not to be distracted if they momentarily smell something.

[Robermax]

That is the music symbol Scoreggia Adesso indicating a sufficiently loud place in the score for a musician holding a fart to pass it without being audible. For those not needing to do so it serves as an alert not to be distracted if they momentarily smell something.

This is why jazz guitar is the best instrument

[Bob_Ross]

I have no idea who Kamihigashi is, so perhaps I'm way off base, but from what I know and have seen in scores of all sorts, if you tell me that was written for guitar then I not only agree it indicates vibrato, but more specifically it indicates vibrato as instantiated by a whammy bar

...either that, or the composer is interested in very subtle degrees of articulation, because to instantiate vibrato on that trichord with only left hand finger pressure is to embrace a pretty modest bit of English.

[ragman1]

Kamihigashi wrote jazz guitar books.

Trills are wavy lines but usually have the letters tr on them. Vibrato is just a wavy line by itself. The difference between them is the amount of oscillation involved.

Trills are smaller than vibratos both in height and width. Play a note and trill it by hammering on and off on a fret above. That's quite common. Or by rapidly repeating the same note by agitating a right hand finger on the string.

Vibrato, on the other hand, is obtained by bending the string/s up and down to get the right effect, like blues, rock or country music. Or using the whammy bar. Or by just 'massaging' a held chord with the fingers. Or by pulling on the whole guitar neck up and down, which is always fun. Or by pedal effects, of course.

So it looks like the OP's wavy line example is a vibrato but it would have to be made clearer by investigating the context and nature of the tune. Vibrato isn't very common in jazz. Maybe in ultra-modern electronic stuff but not in ordinary jazz as we generally know it.

[ragman1]

Robermax -

A lot of jazz books come with CD's so the tune your example comes from might be demonstrated.

Also there are quite a few videos on YouTube featuring Kamihigashi playing so if your example is part of a whole tune you might find it being played.

[Robermax]

Thanks to all for your replies.
I did contact Yuji via Instagram and he replied that it is indeed vibrato. (and he replied in about 2 minutes!)

[emanresu]

There's a big book of somekind that has every such thingie inside it.
Nobody knows what it is called. Because the one who knows is a nobody without a life.

[MiniMerckx.22]

Vibrato like a string player, as opposed to any one of the Three Kings.

[pamosmusic]

Vibrato like a string player, as opposed to any one of the Three Kings.

BB has a vibrato quite a bit like a classical player, which is about as close to string vibrato as a guitarist can get.

[Woody Sound]

I was guessing right hand tremolo but there are 2 votes for vibrato (actually 3- the third is not on this forum). Thanks for helping!

Tremelo is usually indicated by diagonal slashes across the stem. Most often 1-3 slashes, indicating how fast the Tremelo should be.

[Woody Sound]

That is the music symbol Scoreggia Adesso indicating a sufficiently loud place in the score for a musician holding a fart to pass it without being audible. For those not needing to do so it serves as an alert not to be distracted if they momentarily smell something.

Is that a bassoon I hear, or did someone have chili for dinner?

[DawgBone]

BB has a vibrato quite a bit like a classical player, which is about as close to string vibrato as a guitarist can get.

He was trying to copy the sound of slide guitar player Bukka White, who was a relative of his.

[Robermax]

Thanks