I heard this song on the radio the other day, and the harp was just, well, terrible. But I couldn't put my finger on why. It sounded like the player knew what he was doing: I didn't get a Alanis Morrisette vibe from it. Was the harp badly out of tune? Inaccurate bends? Just playing in the wrong position? Bob Segar is great musician, I'm surprised he left it in. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Another example of that attitude some people- who are good at music in other veins- thinking, how hard can it be, I'm going to do this. Since a harmonica is a small simple instrument, I think people are misled by the actual complexities of learning to play well. When I started out I had no idea how far the journey would take me and how very much I needed to know in order to sound halfway decent.
On one of Clapton's DVD's he had his rhythm guitarist try to play chromatic on one song and it was a farce from the get-go.
You can know a lot about music, theory, your first instrument(s), but you still have some uphill to go if you decide to put a harp part in a song. ---------- Music and travel destroy prejudice.
Another example of that attitude some people- who are good at music in other veins- thinking, how hard can it be, I'm going to do this. Since a harmonica is a small simple instrument, I think people are misled by the actual complexities of learning to play well. When I started out I had no idea how far the journey would take me and how very much I needed to know in order to sound halfway decent.
On one of Clapton's DVD's he had his rhythm guitarist try to play chromatic on one song and it was a farce from the get-go.
You can know a lot about music, theory, your first instrument(s), but you still have some uphill to go if you decide to put a harp part in a song. ---------- Music and travel destroy prejudice.