Hi everyone! There has been quite a lot threads about rhythm from you other beginner-intemidiates out there. It got me thinking the other day. I have been focusing on nailing note-sequences and finding "new" (yeah right) phrasings in my playing lately and just haven't been having as much fun as I used to.
So I veered and buried myself in rhythm and swing and Little Walter! I just haven't appreciated him as much as I should have I now realised (thanks Frank!).
I recorded a video to a Lawrence Fritts backing track called "brown shoes blues". Playing through a Shure sm57 into my ampkit link to Iphone. I use a hering vintage harp in F that has been seriously underused. It rocks! I didn't realise the joy of highkey harps until now!
I would love any and all critique! Especially on rhythm pointers! The purpose of my playing is to support the rhythm, there isn't any "real solo" and a it's a bit repetitive but I hope you enjoy it! I certainly did playing it.
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Last Edited by on Aug 20, 2012 10:05 AM
Interesting...the rhythm I look for is unaccompanied. I think this is the backbone for the style that I want to play.
Get a good rhythm going and then move off that with either single note riffs or singing. More of a one man band that only plays harmonica. The Peg Leg Sam song is a really good example of the kind of style I am shooting for.
Your playing is very good but different from what I am after.
Thanks Frank! (I guess, it's kind of an ambiguous comment. Open for interpretation ;D). If anyone is interested in my set up I posted a separate thread called IPhone/ampkit recording how to ---------- Pistolkatt
It is open for interpretation - though what I meant is that while we "alive" we might as well enjoy, appreciate and incorporate as much rhythmic possibilities into our short lives cause the dirt nap is a long Coda...
I can definitely hear the Little Walter influence in the light touch and the rhythmic background - it's easy to get carried away with constantly trying to play melody lines and to forget all this cool rhythmic stuff. It also made me remember Rick Estrin's DVD on harp playing, where he pointed out that one improvising option was exactly this kind of rhythmic groove. Cool stuff!
