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jodanchudan
365 posts
Apr 30, 2011
9:35 AM
It says G harp but I had to use an A for a couple of the chords too. If anyone's got any advice on how to do the Gwen Foster-style warbles, trills, shimmers, flutters, shutters, skewers, mutters - whatever you call them - I'd be glad to hear it.

tookatooka
2337 posts
Apr 30, 2011
9:55 AM
:o)
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nacoran
4098 posts
Apr 30, 2011
10:50 PM
Is someone doing dishes in the background? I could swear I hear a spoon around 1:10. Nice playing.

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jodanchudan
368 posts
May 01, 2011
2:43 AM
Yeah it's probably dishes. That or toys being chucked around. Blues noises.
7LimitJI
492 posts
May 01, 2011
3:05 AM
Good sounds, some nice growls too!
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Ant138
918 posts
May 01, 2011
3:50 AM
That is some very cool 1st position playing Jodan.

I always neglect 1st position ;o(
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RyanMortos
1066 posts
May 01, 2011
4:11 PM
Sweet! I need to get jamming in more positions too. I also hear clanging of silverware at the end, haha.

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Jim Rumbaugh
495 posts
May 01, 2011
8:33 PM
This has me interested. It's something I'm trying to learn. And I don't mean 1st position, though I do like what I heard.

The backing track is a 1-6-2-5 chord progresion. It does start on a G. The chords are G E A D. They are all major chords, no minors. It is interesting that the chords are the same as the lower 4 strings on a guitar (E,A,D,G). This chord progresion is known as "rhythm changes".

I am still not sure what harp to use with this progression.
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ZackPomerleau
1408 posts
May 02, 2011
1:42 AM
That's a progression I hear a lot in ragtime blues guitar.

C B A D G

"They're Red Hot" is C, B, A, A7, D7, G7. That fits with this. I'd play it in 2nd position personally, for that old blues sound.
Jim Rumbaugh
496 posts
May 02, 2011
5:34 AM
@Zack I agree, I hear/feel/detect "ragtime"

My question:

So in your example "C (B) A D G", would you grab a F harp for second position in the key of C ?

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harmonicanick
1168 posts
May 02, 2011
2:45 PM
You have come on a bit young man, well done!!
harpfox
4 posts
Dec 13, 2013
2:08 PM
in order to do his tongue flutters..its tongue blocked of course...you have to make a sad face (look into flute embouchure). your tongue swishes like a spasm(coming more from diaphragm then tongue muscles) ..

the trick is to get the right distance of your tongue to the harp..its at a small distance.

hope this helps
dougharps
491 posts
Dec 13, 2013
4:01 PM
When I clicked the box said that the video doesn't exist???
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grahamonica
72 posts
Dec 14, 2013
6:38 AM
Same here
Frank
3485 posts
Dec 14, 2013
7:00 AM
Or does it? that is the question...Philosophically it still "IS"...exsisting, regardless of someone else's reality.

Why get logical, when even proof of that - is beyond unfettered reasoning.

Let others debate the videos existence- after all, wasn't it somewhere this whole time just waiting to be dreamt back into existence, at least in the minds of those who query?

Last Edited by Frank on Dec 14, 2013 7:16 AM
dougharps
492 posts
Dec 14, 2013
7:30 AM
@Frank
In multivalued logic ("fuzzy logic")the question would be more along the lines of "to what extent does it exist?"

The excluded middle of Aristotelian logic no longer applies and there are degrees of truth, not either/or.

But the video, to whatever extent it exists, does not play for me here or on YouTube...
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Frank
3488 posts
Dec 14, 2013
7:49 AM
I understand your concern and to the degree of debate is a matter of ones own truth and [possibly neo-science-ism and though it's inability to be viewed whether here or youtube is troubing in a present tense, this simply proves that it does exist somewhere but not in the most obvious places - it will be located by those who seek it with their whole heart, soul, mind and spirit :)

Last Edited by Frank on Dec 14, 2013 7:53 AM
harpfox
10 posts
Dec 15, 2013
12:49 PM
if anybody has any tips on playing Gwen foster style...
please do share!
Frank
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Dec 15, 2013
6:55 PM
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12:35 AM
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