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  • The morning air was chill and crisp, and the sun was just breaking through the thick canopy of forest, which was filled with the shrill single-note calls of an owl, invisible in the trees above me.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • He seamlessly weaves chords and single-note runs together and uses chord voicings that don't appear in any music book.

    Jimi Hendrix Named Greatest Guitarist Of All Time By Rolling Stone 2011

  • In such a setting, guitarists typically rely on either single-note lines or vertical improvisations, like a horn player.

    The Jazz Scene: Big Bands and Bombshells Will Friedwald 2011

  • It has an instantly recognizable single-note sound that's similar in tone to the banjo.

    Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert Gil Asakawa 2011

  • And many believe that Gove's single-note obsession with the small number of children on free school meals who go to Oxbridge says more about his own History Boy-style rise through the ranks, than the needs of the country's most excluded students.

    The crisis facing Britain's education system 2011

  • The morning air was chill and crisp, and the sun was just breaking through the thick canopy of forest, which was filled with the shrill single-note calls of an owl, invisible in the trees above me.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • Diptyque produces wonderful single-note scents that are also interesting to mix.

    In the Mood for Fragrant Nights in the Garden Rita Konig 2011

  • It has an instantly recognizable single-note sound that's similar in tone to the banjo.

    Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert Gil Asakawa 2011

  • He played "as though he were plucking the piano's strings instead of striking its keys, and his gracefully restrained single-note style are a reformulation of their aesthetic in modern jazz.," wrote David Rosenthal in "Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955 - 1965."

    Jazz pianist Hank Jones dies 2010

  • Taylor bookended his set with wistful Wheeler compositions Consolation and Everybody's Song But My Own, and ran from hypnotic single-note tappings against crunching chords through surging contrapuntal improvisations and under-the-lid strummings on a Steve Swallow theme.

    Bath festival 2010

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