For those few who have not yet heard him, do yourself a favour and check out the totally awesome Filip Jers. ---------- Tony Eyers Australia www.HarmonicaAcademy.com everyone plays...
That was great! I haven't tried playing in 12th position- does it lend itself to any interesting chording opportunities? I especially liked the few chords you threw in throughout (for example, the one at 2:24).
Filip is an amazingly talented multi-instrumentalist. He plays chrom and diatonic equally well. It is most likely lost on many the true difficulty in playing this song. I always love his stuff.
He's been a fixture at SPAH the past few years and I hope to see him again.
Great way to put the harmonica out there in a very creative fashion Filip.
12th position is way too often overlooked. What makes this tune even more impressive is that 12th position on the lower end can be tricky as it has some hard bends. Filip does it..and does it on a low tuned harp, on top of that.
Great stuff ---------- Greg Jones 16:23 Custom Harmonicas greg@1623customharmonicas.com 1623customharmonicas.com
Great playing! I agree about twelfth being overlooked... I thought it was 'just for major pentatonic stuff', but you have that bend on six draw (or full bend three draw) to get a minor (or blue) third opening up for a lot off cool tunes. Playing amazing grace in the low octave in twelfth (back with major pentatonics!) really make you concentrate to get those low bends and is a great intonation practise. ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
Terrific playing. And of course 12th gives an array of interesting opportunities once you´ve learned to tame those bottom notes. Very fond of it myself --w/ perhaps a minute touch up on 5D.
I always love listening to Filip Jers playing. I appreciate the comment about 12th position.
I discovered 12th position looking at a lead sheet for Steven Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" It was written in Eb but had accidentals A natural and Cb. When I saw that all of the A's in the upper octave of the piece were natural, I realized I could use a Bb harp where the A in the middle octave was naturally natural, and bend the A in the low octave down to Ab. The Cb in the low octave was also just a draw bend. I was very pleased this worked but I did't learn until later this was called 12th position.
Now I need to go through my music and look for other 12th position pieces. (even though I cant really do the Sondheim piece justice yet:-))
Thanks everyone! Yes, 12th pos gives some interesting chordal effects. On blow you will have a strong V ackord. And on hole 456 draw, you will get (on this harp) an Ab6. And a nice strong II7 (V-V) chord (in this tune Bb7, cross harp) which is the second chord while playing the head.
This tune also works nice on a Ab harp play in 1st pos or on a Bb harp, played in 11th. I used the Low Eb in 12th, cause I like the sound of low bent notes.
