Long time lurker, first time poster....A couple of months ago, I got a call to play harmonica on a regional country bands record. Admittedly, I am not a professional harmonica player, but do make my living playing the guitar. Most of my harmonica experience 2-3 years of bedroom playing, with the few scattered performances. Anyway, the producer at the session specifically wanted parts over the intro, but let me make two entire passes of the tunes. I gave him the parts he wanted, expecting the rest of my performance to make the cutting room floor. Guitar and fiddle were dominating the mix so I figured I didn't have much of a chance, much to my surprise, he put me all over it! I got the call through my association with the musicians knowing my reputation as a guitar player, but turned into a fun experience and $100 in my pocket. Feel free to critique, let me know what was working, what wasn't, etc.
https://youtu.be/a2ClFBDIWI0
Last Edited by melee4life on Aug 17, 2017 8:17 PM
If you hit share, then embed on youtube and cut and paste that code here you can do a full embed.
Quick listen to the start sounds good, but it's 3 am, so I will have to give a more in depth comment tomorrow!
Edit- one quick comment... I can't quite describe it, I've got several songs that lean more rock and less country, but there are some definite elements in your song that are similar in sound to what I'm shooting for. I'll have to give it another listen and see if I can't figure out more of what I need to do to get my songs to sound like that.
Off the cuff: A personal preference entirely, but I was never that wild about the hole 4-5 warble. It has to much of "harmonica cliché" over it. (Which can be a reason that it´s sought after?) I prefer longer background notes, or double stops -- if that´s appropriate. (And of course, that can also fall under the heading of "harmonica clichés" ...)
However, generally, with what little experience you seem to have I must say you pass with flying colours.
I'm not a expert in country music, but I think that harmonica fits band's music very well and sounds good. ---------- Konstantin Kolesnichenko(Ukraine) http://kolesnichenko-harmonica.com/
I, for the life of me, couldn't get the video to embed correctly. Followed the same steps you provided, same result. Was really counting on the rest of you to be understanding on that front, lol!!!
melee, it looks like you hit the share button on YouTube, but then didn't hit the embed button. It's a longer bit of code that has html in it instead of just the video address.
Instead of what you got you would have got a longer piece that looked like this:
You pleased the producer and gave him what he wanted. He also liked it so much that he used more than he probably thought he'd want, so that's all the critique you need.
Harmonica was in total service to the country song. ---------- The Iceman
