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IgorKasuya
65 posts
Aug 15, 2014
8:36 AM
Just improvisation again...
A harmonica.

Slimharp
373 posts
Aug 15, 2014
9:57 AM
Very good. Switch up the vibrato to different notes and or speeds. It tends to get a little repetitive. Use some hard bends to break up the flow a little. A touch of warble may work. You have great tone and feel.
Frank
5141 posts
Aug 15, 2014
10:03 AM
Not impressed...but have to admit is was pretty damn good :)
The Iceman
1932 posts
Aug 15, 2014
10:45 AM
Not bad. Timing is a little inconsistent. Some good ideas. Some ideas you linger on a bit longer than is needed to make your point.
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Goldbrick
615 posts
Aug 15, 2014
4:49 PM
I liked your tone.
The look is kinda dopey but maybe thats cool in Brazil

Get a metronome or a click track- timing is off - if you are gonna do stop time keep your count consistant.

Dont mean to be harsh - but I wanted to be honest about it
kudzurunner
4872 posts
Aug 16, 2014
3:24 AM
I like it. You've got a strong, deep, rich, likeable tone--an idiomatic sound, squarely in the tradition, rather than an undeveloped sound. It starts a little slowly for my taste--not in terms of beats per minute, but in terms of how much musical information you're giving us. (BTW, I didn't watch the video at all; I just listened. I'm judging your playing here, not your dramatics.) What's the piece called? Sometimes the title of a piece creates expectations or gives the listener information about what inspired it. It makes a difference whether this piece is called "Rollin' Down the Highway" or "Can't Get That Car Started in the Winter." Or "Slipping and Sliding," for that matter. You held it together with repeated themes, and after a while, after enough repetition, I think we get a sense of what you're working with; it holds together.

One thing worth thinking about is the underlying harmonic structure, the chord pattern. Basically you're working with a one-chord thing here. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but it's probably also important that you think about what's structuring this "piece." Is this just a free improv, or are you trying to dredge up bits of structured playing, repeated motifs, that can then, next time you play this, be assembled into a full-blown performance piece? Most of us aren't good enough to simply make up a fully-developed piece from scratch. I have dozens and dozens of cassettes from the 1980s entitled "Adam's harp maunderings." They don't have a lot of structure. They're basically just partially developed improvisations from the woodshed. Every players ends up churning out lot of stuff like that. I think it's important for you to figure out, if you haven't already done so, whether this video is just.....that. Or whether there's stuff here that you like--stuff that works--and stuff you don't like as much. Or whether you consider this to be a fully-developed performance piece that you would, for example, play in the middle of a concert. It can't be all three.

I'd like to know more about what you yourself think about what you've come up with.

Last Edited by kudzurunner on Aug 16, 2014 3:28 AM
Thievin' Heathen
370 posts
Aug 16, 2014
10:07 AM
Adam, it would have never occurred to me to give so much credence to the title. You are correct. That could be the 1st hurdle in the composition of instrumental pieces. I will commit that to memory.
garryfernand
4 posts
Aug 17, 2014
9:31 PM
Hi,
I liked the whole music piece but i think there is in consistent in tone speed which was little weird.
IgorKasuya
66 posts
Aug 22, 2014
10:20 AM
Thanks everyone for the comments
I think now after reading and re-reading everything, I am able to answer.

I know I still have some rhythmic deficiencies and the question of tonality in this specific video.

I was very happy with my relationship to the timbre (tone) !!
 
You know, I always post my videos here and to be quite honest, the reality here in Brazil is very different. And really like to know the opnion of you in relation to my sound, my music, my blues. Because I know that this great school there in the USA!

I do not think me a great harmonica player or anything. But I'll get there!

Perhaps with this video I have been a bit unfortunate. It is really an improvisation from scratch, of course my influences appear in the kinds of phrasing and riffs ....

But yes! Just turned on the camera and started playing without thinking about absolutely nothing. It is not a justification for the errors of time and the lack of a Chorus. Simply tried to make music!

For the next post I promise to organize myself more and have a more cool stuff!

Thank you to everyone who responded ...
I am not angry nor offended me with no comment.
I know very well that I do not know anything of music, but slowly we are learning!

Thanks: @Slimharp @Frank @The_Iceman @GoldBrick @Kudzurunner @Thievin' Heathen @garryfernand.


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