nacoran
7758 posts
May 21, 2014
10:07 PM
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This isn't just a call for videos- it's a call for links tracks that have something to teach us. If I had a good recording of it, for instance, I'd play my bands song alone, and explain that the band is playing 12 bar, but I'm playing 16 bar, so we meet at 48 and 96 bars. In my opinion it creates some neat variation in the song. Or I might post a couple fox chases, particularly DeFord Bailey, and show how his yips and yaps were in key and time, were some other versions just throw them in in the chaos, or Axis of Awesome's create video on the famous 4 chord progression that dominates pop music. I'm looking for videos, particularly about the harp and or blues, that you think have a teaching moment. If we get enough submissions maybe I'll put them together on a YouTube channel. When I started playing, I had a hard time with bends and connecting harmonica with voice, then I heard Salty Holmes and his talking harmonica, and it just clicked.
What made things click for you? What exposed you to a way of thinking about things that you didn't get before? Was it someone playing in another position? Was it just a perfect pause, or the way James Cotton looked liked he'd given every last drop of sweat to play? What can we learn, what can we copy, what can we avoid? Share your video learning moments, and explain what they meant to you and what you think others can take from them.
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The Iceman
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May 22, 2014
5:13 AM
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"the band is playing 12 bar, but I'm playing 16 bar, so we meet at 48 and 96 bars."
Now that is a great concept.
Had a Top 40 band in the 80's. One night, guitar solo during song had guitar player feeling beat 1 where the rest of the band was on beat 2. Best solo ever, very avante garde. Never happened again, but I will always remember the experience.
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nacoran
7762 posts
May 22, 2014
1:48 PM
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Here is the video that made me want to play harp for more than just helping with my asthma. Why do I love it? Well, it makes the harp a lead instrument.
Here is the video that made bending click for me, I think, because it makes the harp sound like the human voice:
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arzajac
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May 22, 2014
5:28 PM
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Going off on a tangent...
"had guitar player feeling beat 1 where the rest of the band was on beat 2. Best solo ever, very avante garde. Never happened again, but I will always remember the experience."
Long before I studied music, this cut always moved me. John Lee Hooker is completely off, starting singing god knows where... But it works (for me, anyway); it adds tension. I couldn't put my finger on how or why?
When I took piano lessons, I asked my teacher what it was that made this cut different. Was it a variation on the 12 bar blues or something?
"He's probably drunk." was the answer. Lol!
Amazing playing from T-Bone Walker and Willie Dixon effortlessly getting back on track. They turn a fumble into a touchdown.
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nacoran
7766 posts
May 22, 2014
9:29 PM
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Not a tangent at all! I'm looking for any place where people hear or see something that makes them take a moment to examine the situation. Moments that are epiphanies (either for the musician or for the listener) or that lead to them later on.
I think I hear some drum sticks dropping in there at 2:19.
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Diggsblues
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May 23, 2014
7:20 AM
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This is a live studio recording. There was only reverb and echo on the harmonica. This is a good example of the tone
that a harmonica can produce. I was thinking John Sebastian Sr. when I recorded it. I told the musicians
I was going to make the harmonica sound like a cello.
I got to tell this to John Sebastian Jr. and sent him the tune and he told me
"keep making great music in the city of my father".
Emile
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The Iceman
1676 posts
May 23, 2014
7:27 AM
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Have posted this before...
Inspiration to me ... ego less music, breaking down that invisible curtain barrier between audience and performer...
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BronzeWailer
1280 posts
May 23, 2014
4:35 PM
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Somebody emailed me a link to Moon Cat's "how to vamp" video. It was like a bucket of cold water over my head - he showed how much potential the harp had - and led me to have another crack at learning how to play when I was pushing 50.
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