Emulating a car horn

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Does anyone know a chord that sounds like a car horn? I'd rather not distract my neighbors by blowing my horns repeatedly while playing guitar.
 
Just a thought.......

It's much easier to sample a car horn and play the sample repeatedly than working out the logistics of playing a car horn live in a track.......
 
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Blue Bear Sound said:
It's much easier to sample a car horn and play the sample repeatedly than working out the logistics of playing a car horn live in a track.......
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hehehe... not to mention the waves being deflected off the sides of the Chevette creating a different room ambience, and the tire prints in the carpet..... :eek:
 
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A car horn is made up of more than one note, but most of them make a dissonant sound as opposed to a chord. What I want is to come up with some vocal harmonies that sound "car horny" & since I'm a guitarist, the easiest place to start is there. Maybe I should sample my car horn & loop it until I can pick out all the notes. i just thought someone might have this in their 'lick vocabulary' already.
 
might not help, but hey once I read somewhere that american cars horns are tuned to the key of F lol
 
I don't know a chord that sounds like a car horn, but there's this old trick I learned from Jeff Beck, from the live recording of "Freeway Jam" from the recording Jeff Beck Live with the Jan Hammer Group:

First, it helps to have a distorted tone, with the highs rolled off.

First finger goes on the E string, second finger on the B string four frets further up the neck. Which note you choose doesn't matter too much but somewhere in the middle between, oh, the fifth fret and the twelfth...

Pluck both strings together while you bend them slightly, especially the note on the B string, so that it not the same pitch as the note one on the E string (that's a different effect, ala the beginning of Hendrix's solo in "Manic Depression"), and then stop the strings quickly.

If that doesn't make sense I'll try to post an example later...
 
If you could filter the attack of the notes and let it rise to peak instead of starting at peak, it might help the voicing.
 
Aaron Cheney said:
I'm not really sure what that means....



HAHAHHAA,,neither am i mate,, but it made me laugh out loud!
hehhe,excellent!



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alright... I *think* it's a "tri-tone" chord, but since i've forgotten so much of my music theory in the past two years, i'll refer to it as it's commonly-referred-to-as name, the "Mr. Bungle Chord", since it was used a LOT by oldschool Mr. Bungle (and therefore by every band ever influenced by Mr. Bungle or other Mike Patton-related projects). It's also referred to as the "chord from satan"...

The note below it is the root of the chord being played. As you can see, it's easy to figure out which note is the root from the fingering position, just like a standard powerchord.

Code: 
E |-------------------------
B |-------------------------
G |-------------------------
D |---5---------------------
A |---4---------------------
E |---3---------------------

      G

Of course, this is movable completely, and therefore could even be played as:

Code: 
E |-------------------------
B |-------------------------
G |-----------13------------
D |-----------12------------
A |-----------11------------
E |-------------------------

              Ab

Experiment with positions and tones, this may just work out to be close enough. Just make sure that you hit all three strings at the same time, as in not strumming it, but say, plucking all three at the same time, so that they attack in unison, as opposed to near-unison (as a strum would place the attacks). You could also probably up-stroke the chord with a pick, and it'd also have a bit more of an attack to it. But as i said, experiment. Even if this isn't quite the right chord, it may put you on the path to finding them on your own.
 
Being that horns don't have a transient and are fairly undynamic, I think that heavy compression with a fast attack and slow release would help.
 
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