SonnyD4885
145 posts
Oct 04, 2011
11:30 AM
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whats style of harmonica did or do you choose to play (not to be like anyone) but the influness that rubbed off? for me it pual butterfeild and james cotton i love the upbeat and then slowed down stuff.
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JInx
83 posts
Oct 04, 2011
11:40 AM
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I play simple common blue folk melodies using positions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12.
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Fingers
107 posts
Oct 04, 2011
11:46 AM
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when i started i had a book on Sonny terry with a thin plastic record!! i then discovered SBW2 and sat for many hours with a cassette and headphones trying to copy riffs after a few years i joined a band and used all i had copped and sort of developed my own style!! now my band days are behind me i am re-learning to play acoustic again...and loving it.
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HawkeyeKane
241 posts
Oct 04, 2011
11:46 AM
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I don't use many styles outside of straight and cross. But I kinda have my own method of articulation that tends to get pretty rapid fire. Comes from my trumpet training. I need to get better versed in other positions and techniques though. Kinda tired of playing rather simplistically.
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Greyowlphotoart
836 posts
Oct 04, 2011
12:05 PM
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I like to try out different styles. I don't play so much Blues these days but really dig it when I do.
I have done a lot of melody lines to well known songs recently mainly in 2nd position and like to improvise fills in these songs.
I love melodic harp playing in whatever musical form and my main inspiration recently has come from a couple of French players namely JJ Milteau and Michel Herblin.
Their tone, dynamics and virtuosity has impressed me greatly and has made me think more about subtle changes of tone and dynamics that can be utilised in a song, Blues or otherwise to create more interest and emotion.
Just beginning to stray from my default 2nd position to other harp positions, which is great fun.
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LittleBubba
106 posts
Oct 04, 2011
12:55 PM
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It's great to have your own style, but IMO it's important to be able to play different styles as well. You wouldn't want to use your dirtiest crunchy tone, that many of us love so much, on piedmont blues tunes, or jazz, or country, for that matter.
Just as this forum is great at encouraging diversity in technique-- including the use of different positions-- it should encourage the ability to be flexible in style when the tune calls for it.
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shadoe42
62 posts
Oct 04, 2011
1:53 PM
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Mostly in cross harp, and I do more background rythym fills than soloing. Blues/country stylings I guess would be most appropriate. Till I get out the effects box and start getting really wierd haha
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Ant138
1113 posts
Oct 04, 2011
11:29 PM
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For me its Chicago all the way. I just love that fat amplified TB'd tone:o)
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boris_plotnikov
640 posts
Oct 05, 2011
3:47 AM
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In general I love different styles funk, jazz, blues, bossa-nova, but big amount of one style become boring to me. Most of all I love musicians whose style are far from any known or slightly resemble it. E.g. Jobim's music was mix of jazz and samba but it give completely new style bossa-nova. Tom Waits slightly resemble blues player, but in general he's only in is style.
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waltertore
1531 posts
Oct 05, 2011
9:57 AM
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I am just simple old me. I don't mess with any beats that make me think. Natural chord changes and tempos only for me. I have been playing simple stuff since day one and it never ceases to capture me. 50+ years later I pretty much play the same stuff I started with only there has been a lot of playing/living years that have added depth to the sound. I don't know any theory, scales, or fancy stuff and prefer to work a simple groove that uses no thinking. I never did work on learning a song or sound. When I sit down to make music it is to sing a song. I have done this since day one. It sounded like noise to all back then but to me it sounded as good as what I play today to my heart. I realize that the way I have learned music is much different than most have learned. This is why I keep posting. If one person out here in cyberspace land connects they will realize they are not alone! When my simple grooves tweak a bit one way or the other, it sounds completely different to me. All I care about with my music is-me,myself and I. If others like it that is great but I do it for my own pleasure.
Guys like Jimmy Reed, lightning hopkins used natural beats and chord changes IMO. The thinking chords, beats, are of no interest to me. It seems more like a mathmatical maze that keeps my mind instead of my soul occupied. My mind is going all day and my music is a great break from that. Art for me is a complete escape from the world and thinking.
Being a white boy from up north I listened to lots of rock and roll as a kid and teen. My parents were original Sinatra groupies and that kind of music was everywhere where I grew up in NJ. I often feel all my influences going through me in bits and pieces to that natural beat. I hear such sounds and go- man that is jim morrison visiting for a moment, there goes sinatra, hey chuck Berry.... What others hear may be totally different but I hear the Doors, sinatra, hendrix, hopkins, hooker (E& JL) SBWII, jimmy reed, hank williams, the stanley brothers, slim harpo, chuck berry, tony bennet..... Man the list is darn near endless. Walter
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HarpNinja
1738 posts
Oct 05, 2011
10:08 AM
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Melodic and harmonious....I play a lot of single note melodies and I try to follow the harmony of the song. That doesn't mean much beyond I phrase more like a singer and add embellishments around notes. I try to change note choice based off chord tones.
Another less awesome sounding way to put it is I play a lot of scale patterns and vary my rhythms.
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nacoran
4704 posts
Oct 05, 2011
3:02 PM
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I'm not sure what style I play. I do a fair amount of call and answer when I'm singing. I think I sound more like a trumpet on some of our other stuff.
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jbone
652 posts
Oct 05, 2011
7:47 PM
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1st, 2nd, and 3rd positions. blues from simple folk blues to swing and a lot in between. some years ago we did a cd an it was titled "swamp to swing" which is apropos. i love doing the raw real live acoustic thing as it has forced me to develop more and better chops, but i also way did guys like carey bell, james cotton, will clarke, james harman and a long list of other heroes.
spiritual, folk, irish, rock, jump, funk, jazz, country ala willie nelson and others.
one day i may get to be called a real harp man.
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jbone
653 posts
Oct 05, 2011
7:47 PM
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1st, 2nd, and 3rd positions. blues from simple folk blues to swing and a lot in between. some years ago we did a cd an it was titled "swamp to swing" which is apropos. i love doing the raw real live acoustic thing as it has forced me to develop more and better chops, but i also way did guys like carey bell, james cotton, will clarke, james harman and a long list of other heroes.
spiritual, folk, irish, rock, jump, funk, jazz, country ala willie nelson and others.
one day i may get to be called a real harp man.
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