With some sense of embarrassment I´ve put up a video on positions playing. For the life of me I cannot embed the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YTnj0H4gFk&feature=plcp
This, as I say in the description, is bad -- in the old-fashioned meaning. But still, for intermediate players it can have some value in showing how to get around the easiest positions. I play OOTB harps and can´t work with them so I just play what I get. Otherwise the rest of the keys could have found a place as well, but that would most cetainly have made it even worse -- I rarely hear anything very interesting played in, say 8th. (Not that this is interesting ...) The playing is sloppy and choppy and I´m sorry for it. I´ll make something more worthwhile another time, but I´d had me a tipple and decided it was fun to make something with this old cassette tape that I´ve found. So, in the name of ruthless objectivity, some Swedish harmonica playing on a late August night.
Give it to me guys, hard and merciless. I´m a masochist, I can handle it.
@Jinx: Quite right. But as I say in the description, primitive equipment and couldn´t check. Better next time.
@timeistight: Thanks for the help!
@ReedSqueal: Thank you, and no I´m but an ordinary 180 cm guy, 5 feet 11 in the US. Could it be that the roof in that studio is kinda low? It was built in 1790, they were smaller then. Or else some effect of my lack of competence in the camera department.
Enjoyable Martin but for those of us who are challenged positionally, it would have been nice to have given us some pointers about what position you were playing in and when? Thanks though. ----------
Hi Martin. Sounds groovey mate. Maybe if the music was a wee bit louder the harp would make a bit more harmonic sense. Can't quite hear the chord changes. By the way,i think we met when i was in Gothenburg a while ago for some gigs. At the Marieholm ship blues jam. I really enjoyed your playing that day. ---------- http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/alprice
@Frank: Thanks. Yes wild ... but in all honesty, it could probably have been a bit tamer and profited from it. But as I said, I´ll try to make something under more, shall we say, controlled circumstances; in Swedish you say "now that I got blood on my teeth", meaning you´re trying to get the hang of it.
@al: Exactly. Problem was I coldn´t test the damn thing /w sound (a very basic camera). The chords are 6-9 I believe, standard blues changes. Marieholm, well that´s probably right, I sometimes hang there during the blues jams. Could you have been a Scottish guy who played really great harmonica? If so I arrived just as you were finishing and only heard a few bars, but that certainly pricked up my ears. We´re not spoilt that way here in Gothenburg. Do come back!
