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tf10music
225 posts
Feb 02, 2015
8:17 AM
Or at least, I'm pretty sure this is hill country-oriented. It certainly felt that way to me when I wrote/recorded it.

Praising Limestone Blues

I'd love feedback on any or all elements, but especially on the harmonica playing.

Thanks!

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The Iceman
2280 posts
Feb 02, 2015
8:33 AM
great gritty guitar/vocals. You got "that sound".
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BronzeWailer
1598 posts
Feb 02, 2015
4:49 PM
I liked it. The jangling guitar, the hypnotic groove. It had a kind of timeless quality. My only beef is that the recording stopped suddenly,4 secs from the end. Well done!

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harp-er
555 posts
Feb 02, 2015
5:40 PM
Nice groove tf10; hypnotic one chord deep feel blues. raw sounding; i like the gritty vocals too; the harp is a bit low in the mix for my ears. carry on, please.
laurent2015
711 posts
Feb 03, 2015
6:35 AM
Haunting music, keeping it tensing up to the end: I like.
If this was really the purpose, then I'd play harp one octave lower: I think this could add tension.
tf10music
226 posts
Feb 03, 2015
7:16 AM
Hey everyone,

glad you all enjoyed it!

bronzewailer: yeah, i was wondering if the ending was too abrupt. I can easily add on that final bar of guitar, but i was thinking of transitioning straight into an acapella rendition of another blues song that I wrote (the non-acapella version would open the album, and the acapella version would close it). we'll see what I decide, but the fact that you found the abruptness off-putting is definitely evidence that I should end the song more conventionally.

harp-er: thanks for commenting on the mix. I've always found it difficult to mix harmonica, because it sounds so different coming from different sound sources. on a car radio, the harmonica in this song drowns out the guitar, but on headphones it's a bit fainter. i'll figure it out eventually.

laurent2015: do you mean pitch shifting the existing harmonica down an octave? (i don't even know if a low A harp exists, and if it does, i'm not sure that i'd have enough air in me to make it sound good). or maybe you mean playing a lick that's oriented around the 2draw/2draw bend/1draw/1blow?

thanks for stopping by!

I will be releasing all of this stuff (and more) in album form eventually.

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laurent2015
712 posts
Feb 04, 2015
5:28 AM
Whatever you choose to do: I think that notes coming from the harp should be lower than the sound from the guitar, just to add more tension, more "suspense"; likely: using the bass register of your A harp, with more bends (inevitably).
tf10music
228 posts
Feb 04, 2015
1:40 PM
Word, I'll do my best. Thanks for clarifying!

I was having trouble coming up with a lick on the lower octave of the harmonica that sounded like something that I envisioned for this song, but I shall persevere.

Thanks again

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jbone
1876 posts
Feb 05, 2015
5:00 AM
3rd position on a low harp gives that sort of style an even more lost and lonely flavor. I've been very effective with say a low F on a G song or low D on an E song.
Good stuff man. My compliments!
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laurent2015
713 posts
Feb 05, 2015
8:35 AM
tf10music: don't work too much, coz it might be that I'm wrong: I just try to imagine your music with a lower sound from the harp, but this is from scratch...Anyway, if you feel the difference with the first version, let us know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tf10music
230 posts
Feb 06, 2015
10:26 AM
Thanks guys, this is all good advice.

I shall look for a low D harp the next time I have a chance (I'm living in a pretty medium-sized place in Spain right now, and the music stores here barely even carry the common keys of harmonica). Low D sounds like a good fit anyways, because generally the regular D feels a bit too high-pitched for my tastes, in the context of my own songwriting.

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