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Flight of the Bumble bee on a diatonic Harmonica ?
Flight of the Bumble bee on a diatonic Harmonica ?
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scojo
465 posts
May 12, 2014
10:25 AM
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@jehosaphat: "But i really only like Harmonica when it is playing Blues.
There,I said it."
I find that attitude to be very sad and closed-minded. There, I said it.
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barbequebob
2551 posts
May 12, 2014
12:22 PM
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David Hezhaaft, your post about blues being different from region to region is a FACT. Even genres have sub genres so the one size fits all mentality makes absolutely no sense at all, yet so many people buy into it like a cheap suit. Going from genre to genre and then sub genre to sub genre, you do HAVE to adapt what you're doing so it fits in PROPERLY within context, but unfortunately, so many musicians fail miserably to understand that, let alone actually do so.
I like the idea of playing classical on diatonic harmonicas, even tho sometimes, some of those tunes won't always totally lend itself to the instrument easily and even with bends and overblows, you may need to retune the harp to make it happen.
The single easiest classical tune to pay on a diatonic is Jesus The Joy Of Man's Desiring, which falls perfectly into first position with little or no bends or overblows needed.
I do have to admit for Flight Of The Bumble Bee, having seen Larry Adler play it on a chromatic in the 80's on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show on his first US tour in decades after getting screwed badly by the infamous McCarthy era hearings with it's Communist scare that was largely fraudulent and hurt so many people needlessly, it's a really tough comparison to what you're doing and what Larry did, which totally blew me away.
I'm a bluesman by trade but it sure doesn't prevent me from listening and appreciating anything else and so many times I've heard stuff thrown in blues that comes from other genres and the list of that is very long.
Mentioning guys like like you've mentioned, who I know a great deal about and then some, says that you listen far more closely to things than most of the average harp players tend to do (or musicians who play other instruments for that matter as well) and you've done tons of listening more like a real musician rather than an ordinary fan or a jam hack does.
I listen to blues that has more than just harp in it and appreciate it quite a lot, and when harp players take the kind of ridiculous attitude that they can't listen to blues if it ain't got harp in it, you can bet when there's a tune in a band they play in that doesn't have it in the first place, they'll never learn to adapt to the situation so that it PROPERLY fits it. By listening to horns, it helped me learn how to work with them in a band context and so not once did I ever sound out of my element, but that attitude of if it ain't got harp you can't listen to it basically shoots yourself in the foot and exposes your weaknesses in a New York minute.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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The Iceman
1646 posts
May 12, 2014
12:24 PM
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I only like vanilla ice cream.
Does that make me sad and closed minded?
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The Iceman
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Frank
4235 posts
May 12, 2014
1:32 PM
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If you make it out of tofu, then no - your gay (the happy kind) and creative :)
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CarlA
502 posts
May 12, 2014
2:31 PM
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This whole thread started to really SUCK after the OP!
There, now I said it!!!!
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