harmonicanick
2175 posts
Jun 13, 2014
3:05 PM
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year 1-5 Enjoying chords, and messing about, maybe not finding single note that easy, a bit of bending, harps A and C mainly
years 5-10 exploring rythym patterns and chords, playing along with your heroes whoever that is. Finding single notes and begining to express and copy what you hear in others
years 10-15, now feeling good, but frustrated, you are playing well with others but something is missing
years 15-20, its good now, and you are confident and have your own take and can jam with plenty of styles and patterns
years 20+ all good........
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Frank
4516 posts
Jun 13, 2014
4:13 PM
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I dunno Nick...seems like the kids today think that they have the harp Mastered in a year... two at the most :)
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STME58
885 posts
Jun 13, 2014
5:19 PM
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I spoke with a young violinist the other day. She was about 9 and said she had been playing for 2 years. I mentioned that she was probably getting familiar with the instrument and becoming capable of not only playing tunes but starting to understand how the instrument really works. She was quite offended and said "I'm really good!"
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SuperBee
2074 posts
Jun 14, 2014
1:11 AM
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This your personal journey Nick?
Mine is a bit slower. I think I spent 16 years in stage 1.
Made much more progress in the next 18.
If I'd known what to do, I probably could've got where I am now in 5 years or so. But maybe I'm underselling those first 3 decades
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Kingley
3599 posts
Jun 14, 2014
1:24 AM
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I don't look at it in stages at all or any kind of levels of achievement. I simply look at it this way. In 1986 I started learning to play harmonica. Today I'm still learning to play the harmonica. It'll never be mastered, because there is always new ground to break and new techniques or songs to learn.
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S-harp
214 posts
Jun 14, 2014
2:30 AM
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For me it is not a linear progress, it's circular.
After some time of progress I always need to go back and restart, so to speak. Why is that? During progress I often discover things that just doesn't work right, things I didn't see/hear before. I guess that's one reason why I feel the more I learn the more I realize how little I have learned. And it's always about the basics ... tone, breath, timing, listening ... but also essense, meaning only playing what needs to be played in a song and nothing more.
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The tone, the tone ... and the Tone
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