Wah is an English word of 3 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wah in a sentence
Related words
Wah meaning
The red panda.
Using Wah
- The main meaning on this page is: The red panda.
- In the example corpus, wah often appears in combinations such as: wah wah, man wah, da wah.
Context around Wah
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wah
- In this selection, "wah" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, name, signature, use, pedal, guitar and effects stand out and add context to how "wah" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a signature wah wah pedal and a wah wah effect. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wah" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wah
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Davis began experimenting with wah-wah effects on his horn. (10 words)
The wah-wah pedal attached to his guitar spat out bursts of gunfire. (13 words)
There was also wah-wah pedal drenched guitar solos and lots of massive groove. (14 words)
Jazz musicians began to improvise on unusual instruments, such as the jazz harp ( Alice Coltrane ), the electrically amplified and wah-wah pedaled jazz violin ( Jean-Luc Ponty ) and the bagpipes ( Rufus Harley ). (32 words)
Some guitarists used Jimi Hendrix -influenced distortion and wah-wah effects to get a sustained, heavy tone, or even used rapid-fire guitar shredding techniques, such as tapping and tremolo bar bending. (32 words)
By gradually changing from "oooh" to "aaah" and back again, a spectral glide is created, emulating the 'sweeping filter' effect that is the basis of the ' wah-wah ' guitar effect. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Wah-wah : A wah-wah pedal creates vowel -like sounds by altering the frequency spectrum produced by an instrument—i.
Audiences should be prepared for everything from bare-chested theremin playing to wah wah wheelie bin as the duo jump from one hit and 40 near misses to another.
Islamic Da’wah Center of Buffalo (Da’wah is the act of converting to Islam) is next door to the Genesee Mini Mart Express.
Another is Wah Wah Records on Cross Square which attracts vinyl hunters from out of town.
Mayfield took textures that were then popular in rhythm and blues — like wah-wah guitars, congas, flutes, orchestras — and blended them into something altogether new.
The wah-wah pedal attached to his guitar spat out bursts of gunfire.
I started using the wah-wah pedal—you know, the sound effect, wahhh, wahhhh, cry all the time.
There was also wah-wah pedal drenched guitar solos and lots of massive groove.
These callous cretins will be not be wah wah-ing when the November Midterms come around, but blubbering into their beer.
Baby One More Time" is composed by " wah-wah guitar lines and EKG -machine bass-slaps".
By gradually changing from "oooh" to "aaah" and back again, a spectral glide is created, emulating the 'sweeping filter' effect that is the basis of the ' wah-wah ' guitar effect.
Davis began experimenting with wah-wah effects on his horn.
He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings.
His recording "Wa Wa Wa" with the Dixie Syncopators can be credited with giving the name wah-wah to such techniques.
In 2008, Jim Dunlop started working in partnership with Hammett to create a signature Wah-wah pedal, the KH95.
In addition to this, mutes can be held in front of the bell and moved to cover more or less area for a wah-wah effect.
In funk bands, guitarists typically play in a percussive style, often using the wah-wah sound effect and muting the notes in their riffs to create a percussive sound.
Jazz musicians began to improvise on unusual instruments, such as the jazz harp ( Alice Coltrane ), the electrically amplified and wah-wah pedaled jazz violin ( Jean-Luc Ponty ) and the bagpipes ( Rufus Harley ).
John Lee's cousin Earl Hooker may have been the first to use wah-wah and slide together.
Some guitarists used Jimi Hendrix -influenced distortion and wah-wah effects to get a sustained, heavy tone, or even used rapid-fire guitar shredding techniques, such as tapping and tremolo bar bending.
Common combinations with wah
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wah wah 4×
- man wah 3×
- da wah 2×
- wah is 2×
- the wah 2×
- wah fu 2×
- of wah 2×
- wah enterprise 2×
- wah dis 2×
- wah chang 2×