Sometimes in the studio, Producer or Artist will ask for another take using these descriptions.
I know that I'm a melodic, single-note player because I've spent years emulating McCoy and Oskar. Most compliments come from this style.
But what kind of sounds are they asking for, when they use these terms? ---------- Robert Hale Spiral Advocate Learn Harmonica by Webcam Low Rates, High Success http://www.youtube.com/DUKEofWAIL https://www.facebook.com/DUKEofWAIL http://www.dukeofwail.com
Here's Big Jay McNeely, the man who invented the term "blow your brains out," playing a song called "Blow Your Brains Out," and being encouraged to do that by a drummmer/"producer". Might be a step in the right direction:
Passion, attitude, anger, joy. I once played a section of Amazing Grace for 5 hours to "find" it. BUT I am one who has a hard time finding this "abandon" in Levys playing. Sinister is an exception. Just my opinion :)
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Watched some of your videos. You are good - and you wouldn't be asked to do studio gigs if you wheren't.
You are who you are. You are a Duke after all - and a certain propriety comes along with that. I definitley get wilder and crazier than you at times- then again - it's who I am.
If you don't have a problem with alchohol, you might try taking a shot or two. Call up some emotional memory - anger, sorrow, lust and play off that.
In the end you bring your own sense of taste and personality to your music - and that's what people are going to get.
I like the characterization of Roscoe Holcomb (not blues and not harp) as having "an untamed sense of control." I think it was Bob Dylan who described the Appalachian banjo/guitar player and singer that way -- pretty sure it was later used as an album title. (Actually Holcomb is pretty harsh for me; I greatly prefer Dock Boggs' vocals). Jeez, that was way off topic.
This version of this song by Jason Ricci is easily one of the best performances that takes an intensely ordered scale based/ run player and just takes it somewhere magical. His intense study of scales inside and out is what makes his runs really come together for me. His live stuff is virtuosic and over the top all while kind of riding the line of becoming unhinged. In this case its a tremendous tension device.
It has the content of the original album cut but amplified with an entirely different feel due to delivery.
Vs http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=nJf2rFsI8zA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnJf2rFsI8zA
And somewhere in the middle. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=i4LJKA2O1gk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di4LJKA2O1gk
It's easy to think its all in the amplification as to intensity but its the feel behind the playing that changes it the most. You can tell Jason was almost 3 different people between each version. It's radical how similar each version is content wise but what is delivered in each case is so different.
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