DukeBerryman
68 posts
Jun 29, 2013
7:53 AM
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OK, this one's just for fun - does anyone else perform air harmonica like me? I do the hand motions and everything, haha. Too hard to resist when listening to a great song...
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Duke Berryman - Chicago blues, harmonica, guitar
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Gnarly
626 posts
Jun 29, 2013
8:06 AM
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Couldn't hurt.
Probably more practical than air guitar!
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DukeBerryman
69 posts
Jun 29, 2013
8:19 AM
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It's just as fun as air guitar but probably looks even weirder!
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Duke Berryman - Chicago blues, harmonica, guitar
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dougharps
409 posts
Jun 29, 2013
8:27 AM
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I haven't done air harmonica (or air guitar for that matter), but I have listened to songs and mentally rehearsed what I would play to it, including inhaling and exhaling and thinking of how I would move the harp.
It has helped at times when I couldn't actually practice aloud.
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Doug S.
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TheoBurke
429 posts
Jun 29, 2013
10:19 AM
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The problem with playing air harmonica is that others frequently think your cramming your face with double cheese burger. Air guitar , air drums, even air keyboards give your hands the ability to bust out with some signature flair and style. Air harmonica just makes you look hungry .
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Fishlips
7 posts
Jun 29, 2013
1:18 PM
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I'm guessing that the tongue slapping looks a little creepy!
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Rick Davis
2028 posts
Jun 29, 2013
1:47 PM
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Here is my "Air Harmonica" story:
There was a really obnoxious woman who came into the jam a few months ago and insisted she was "world famous" for her air harmonica. She would but two fingers of her left hand against her lips and cup with her right, and make this awful annoying kazoo sound into the vocal mic.
Against my better judgment I put her on stage to do this crap in a jam set, and she "played" over the top of the singer and all the other soloists. When another musician sang or soloed she just did her buzzing sound louder. She is one of the few people I ever kicked off the stage.
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nacoran
6889 posts
Jun 29, 2013
6:41 PM
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I play 'air harmonica' on harmonica sometimes, just holding a harp up (usually in places where I can't make noise, but sometimes when I'm trying to figure something out.)
I also just flat out air harp sometimes too, though. I've even considered putting together a reed-plateless harp to 'play' when I can't really play, just to work on rhythms. Harp breathing rhythms kind of work like meditation a bit too. They can force you out of stress breathing patterns.
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bluemoose
897 posts
Jun 29, 2013
6:54 PM
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I'm with Doug. I play in my head for most of the jam sets I don't to go up for. (Can be lots or none depending on who shows)
But in my head I get all the solos, I can comp through the singer, I'm the loudest instrument on stage and play way better than everyone else! ;)
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Reed Triller
81 posts
Jun 29, 2013
8:45 PM
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Get outta my head. I have been debating if I should post asking this or not for 2 days,lol. I often find myself listening to music and my tongue goes into position on notes where I would do a bend and such,lol.
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