nacoran
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May 02, 2015
12:19 PM
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There are parts that work, but as a whole, you've got to work piece you've got to work on keeping your timing more consistent. You also need to work on developing strong opinions about what is working for yourself- what I mean is you post a lot of experiments, which is fine, but take the time to do a take where you get the parts you know don't work out of it first- not because we won't patiently sit through it, but because it's really important to develop that internal voice that lets you know when it's working or not, and some of that means doing some self-critique. It also makes it hard to critique your work because we have to point out the parts that obviously aren't working and can't spend as much focus on more subtle tips on the parts that are.
Looking at your setup, get yourself a boom mic if you are going to hold the harp in your hands, or use a harp rack if you aren't. I think you are handicapping yourself by using the mic hanging from your neck- it looks like it's getting in your way but it's still not giving you two free hands. Another solution, some keyboards let you program in a tune pretty quickly. You could do that, or use a loop pedal, to record the bass part and then focus on the harpboxing. Guys like Son of Dave use their loop pedal and some of those cheap shaker eggs to build up their rhythms on top of what they are doing with their mouths. The trick there is you have to sort of compose/arrange the toon in your head beforehand so that you can hit all the right cues for the toon.
As to the simplest part of the question, I think the bass works well with the harpboxing (although there are pure beatboxers who can produce those notes vocally).
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