I was talkin on a harp forum. And I realised I once saw a Jason Ricci tutorial on that subject. It was about 'playing more melodic' he talked about using 'major' harp licks followed by 'minor' licks (or visa versa) in general sounded better than mixing the notes. Does anybody know which video this was I can't find it no more.
Yeah i't truly an amazing lesson..I'm always busted when he improvises with the scale 'up to speed'. I can't get anything that sounds close (twice as slow).
Nice upload, K. I'm in no place to 'judge', but sounds like your on your way alright!
What has worked for me the last couple of days is to combine this lesson by Jason with two things: 1) a tip found in the 'how much do you practice thread', someone copied from Carlos del Junco: make everything you practice musically. I've started to apply that to scale-practice. Gives you something to rely on if you want to play melodically. Especially if you want to play melodically in 2nd, it's good to have that major scale in cross down perfectly. This way I started finding sweet spots (6d7d, 6b 5OB, 3dbb 3d, etc). 2)copy Jason's music. I'm starting to see how he does this changing of feeling in a 12 bar context. That's really starting to give me the tools to do this myself. At first I thought: cool lick, let's copy it. Now I see WHY it's cool, and what he was thinking doing that. These tutorials are such a shortcut to assimilate this style.
This is such an exciting evolution for me! Thanks Jason!
Good tips Freewilly, but copyin Ricci is the problem..he play's too fast. I can only get what he mentions note for note..he does that a lot so I'm not complaining
Perhaps don't start the transcribing game with Ricci's stuff :) Work your way up to it. Get all your bends and overblows down (he has cool vids about that too), because you will need them. Than work through simpler stuff. Have fun with that while your at it.
Everything can be slowed down to make it easy to 'hear'. You need the technique to do it full speed though. One step at a time ;)
Don't worry Willy, I won't try transcribing. I did it one time for a small part..or tried it I should say. It drove me crazy.
I used that slowdown with pitch preserve technique (which was a hassle to get working). and bought a Eb harp to go with the audio. The problem was I couldn't hear the difference between 5 drawbend and 5 blows (same for the 2 blow). And the timing..those where not triplets, don't know what it was..I couldnt get it.
I've seen all of Ricci's tutorials, they've all been helpful whether it was beyond or not. But perhaps I could revisit some, one step at a time :)
