Sirsucksalot
40 posts
May 19, 2009
2:01 PM
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iv never been into country music but out where i live there aint a lot of blues going on. iv had a few country bands ask me to play with them but im wary to do so not having played any. can anyone suggest any artist to listen to. and can you describe how the techniques are different. i know willy nelson has a harp player but that's as much as i know.
Thanks
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Preston
365 posts
May 20, 2009
7:45 AM
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I don't know much about this guy's music, but he is endorsed by hohner, and he did a very tastefull solo on a popular song a couple of years back.
www.myspace.com/jameygarner
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Blackbird
85 posts
May 20, 2009
8:24 AM
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Mickey Raphael was Willie's harp player most of the time, I think. Mickey can also be heard playing harp on some of Eddie Spaghetti's solo works, where Eddie goes more country than when in The Supersuckers.
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mr_so&so
97 posts
May 20, 2009
10:25 AM
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Also check out Adam's MBH video on the "blues and country scales". The "county scale" is:
root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, octave,
which is the major pentatonic scale.
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The Gloth
48 posts
May 20, 2009
10:34 AM
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I think that primarily you should listen to the style of country music that is played by your friends, and try to figure out how you can play on it. Learn the rythms and the changing chords, once you get the feeling of the music, your sound will adapt to it.
...but it's always good to steal some licks from the Great Ancients (I'm gonna check that Charlie McCoy by the way, didn't he played with Johnny Cash ?).
Last Edited by on May 20, 2009 10:37 AM
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the frozen canuck
35 posts
May 21, 2009
6:47 AM
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hey there Sirsucksalot,have a listen to George Jones & even some Neil Young
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Buddha
458 posts
May 21, 2009
7:01 AM
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12th position is the best position for most country music. One of the huge faux pas I hear almost all harp player do when playing Country and Western is to hit the draw 5 (b7) when playing in 2nd position.
Do think you can just hang with a country band and get away with playing your blues stuff. I know we hear lots of players do it but that doesn't mean its right.
If you want to get into country then listen to Mandolin (sam bush) Dobro (Jerry Douglas) and Fiddle (Mark O'Conner) You can get away with lots of chugging, actually "chopping" is a better term, listen to a good mando player to pick up on this Chopping effect. When you want to do fills then take your licks from the fiddle. And take your solo from listening to the dobro. That will keep you interesting when you're playing along.
Playing in an arpeggiated style works well too but you have to know the chords.
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Sirsucksalot
41 posts
May 22, 2009
9:04 AM
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Thanks every one, very informative. Iv got some work to do it seems. I figured id have some chopchugging to do. They invited me to their practice, so im gonna bring my little Zoom 2 so i can catch there sound for later "woodsheding" . 12th position, im still working on 3rd 1st and 2nd , but i might as well add it to my ever growing list of things to figure out.
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