>From the Wikipedia article: "In music, a vamp is a repeating musical figure, >section, or accompaniment used in blues, jazz, gospel, soul, and musical >theater. Vamps are also found in rock, funk, reggae, R&B, pop, country, and >post-sixties jazz. Vamps are usually harmonically sparse. A vamp may consist >of a single chord or a sequence of chords played in a repeated rhythm. The >term frequently appeared in the instruction 'Vamp till ready' on sheet music >for popular songs in the 1930s and 1940s, indicating that the accompanist >should repeat the musical phrase until the vocalist was ready. Vamps are >generally symmetrical, self-contained, and open to >variation."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato#Vamp) Does this help? I likely should have defined this term in my earlier post. From: Aahz Maruch via Callers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] Rolling Starts? On Fri, Oct 02, 2015, Lindsey Dono via Callers wrote: > > -Preplanned vs spontaneous rolling starts. When I decided to start > working on rolling starts, I preplanned with a band that I knew loved > them. We discussed: timing, signaling, what to do if things failed > to sync or fell apart. To my total delight, both rolling starts > worked. My next rolling start was a surprise to me- the band just > jumped in behind me! Some bands can and love to do this. Some callers > love this, others don't. I've stopped bands from vamping behind me if > I knew I had a lot of explaining to do.
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