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doing solo speed harp my own way
doing solo speed harp my own way
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waltertore
2615 posts
Oct 28, 2012
2:58 PM
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I haven't blown a harp this way in a long time. I did fast high note stuff like this, amplified 40 years ago, with a rocking band behind me. I was a peer of sugar blue(had no idea who he was at the time) and was pre john popper (popper's father was my fathers boss for 25 years but I never met john). The only other person I had heard at that time playing fast was James Cotton and Magic Dick. I dug Cotton but hated Magic Dick (still can't stand his stuff). I got lots of crazy applause for this kind of playing but sort of always have been a slower grooving soul that eventually outgrew the testostorone of adolesence and found his way home:-) It was fun doing this session tonight which was an evolutional blend of those old speed days and what it has evolved to today. It was especially enjoyable with such wonderfully responsive and sounding harps- thanks to Burke T of open door harps- Enjoy! Walter
released
going down the drain
changing through the years (a bit more to todays slant)
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,500+ of my songs in a streaming format
my videos
Last Edited by on Oct 28, 2012 3:04 PM
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harp-er
233 posts
Oct 28, 2012
3:46 PM
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Interesting stuff Walter. I hope that when you do this now it isn't just about testosterone. To my ear it doesn't sound like testosterone driven playing at all. I figure there's a place for all of it - the slow grooves, the speed riffs, mixing it up, as long as it's real, and not merely a mess of ego driven sonic drivel. Different people have different sensibilities, and this is gonna come out in their playing, as it should.
I know you're gonna keep on truckin', whatever it ends up sounding like to anyone else.
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clyde
293 posts
Oct 28, 2012
4:14 PM
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Walter, I Have always felt your rack playing is unsurpassed. This just reinforces my feelings. Best rack tone in the biz
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waltertore
2616 posts
Oct 28, 2012
4:20 PM
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thanks guys! I do like playing fast when the mood hits but I find the fast stuff is so overdone and overdone poorly by so many, it tends to turn me off. It was good to get back to some of it and on listening back on the songs realize my style is different than any I have heard. I guess it is because I still don't know a thing about the technical side of music like scales and stuff.
clyde: Thanks but the solo acoustic harp songs are hand held. I hold the harp differently than most anyone I have heard and it produces a different tone. I use a bigger airtight cavity when cupping than most. I just recorded a bunch of really cool electric slide, rack harp, 1 man band songs and my stupid computer crashed and I lost them all. Oh well that is the cool thing about spontobeat- you never really own a song you just let them pass through and if I catch it with the recorder cool and if not tomorrow is another day of tapping into the well of never ending songs! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,500+ of my songs in a streaming format
my videos
Last Edited by on Oct 28, 2012 4:22 PM
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