I like this higher-key harp sound. I've noticed you seem to have a home around the 6D and it's bend - makes me think of Paul Butterfield. Is it a favourite place, would you say?
Thanks, MTG. Yes, I return to 6 draw often and base much of my phrasing around there. It's both a starting point and a finish line for many of my licks. It is something I picked up from Butterfield. Lately, though, it neighborhood I'm attempting to leave more often. ---------- Ted Burke __________________ ted-burke.com tburke4@san.rr.com
I think Butter had some jazz feel in his blues. In the key it's the 9th and bends down nicely to the b9. Also, when your on the V chord it become the 5 to the b5 of the change of the moment. ----------
Butterfield has such fluidity that it's intimidating even now; while a good many 1st generation white harmonica players were technically adroit, Butterfield's solos had that sense of someone who could stay blues based yet find new places to start phrases, how to manipulate a bend in ways that were startling, how to race up the 6 draw and down again to the 1 blow and two and three draw. He remains number one on my list of harmonica influences. He inspired to get on this wonderful path. ---------- Ted Burke __________________ ted-burke.com tburke4@san.rr.com
