Sounds pretty good to me! I didn't sound like that after 3 weeks.Current harp instructional material is real good.David Harps 3 minutes to blues harmonica was all I could find in the early 90s.Needless to say it took a bit more than 3 minutes.
As a professional teacher of physical (athletic) skills, and someone who is working on his own playing in an organized fashion, I'd say that seems like about 4 hours worth of progress.
"2 weeks" is meaningless without knowing how many hours he's put in. It's terrible progress if he's practicing 2 hours a day, and pretty good if he's playing 15 minutes 3-4 times a week.
Aint buying it. He's too fast on his train. And even the chugs are too solid, rhythm wise, for 2 weeks. Unless, like LSB points out, he was a woodshedding mofo for those 2 weeks. (Or he has some background that gave him a head start.) Just my opinion.
He is a lot 'better' than i was after a year.But then again in those pre internet days it took me that long to figure out that you played an A harp for E etc. With all the learning material available now days,yep i can believe that with a bit of natural talent thrown in it would be possible to advance pretty quickly
If that's two weeks of harp playing I'm guessing he has some other musical background. A local guy got that good in a matter of a couple weeks, but he already played half a dozen instruments and had a strong foundation in theory.
That's much further along than I was at 2 weeks. I had no kind of printed instruction for a couple of years other than the insert that came with Marine Band harps back then. I was not into the train thing or the fox chase thing. I went from Dylan to Sonny Terry to Wolf early on and I was mostly dependent on a guitarist to lay down a foundation I could work with. At one point my friends were sick of me and gave me the bum's rush so they could actually rehearse without distraction and I found myself walking around fire trails on the hills outside town blowing solo stuff. It would be some time though before I could actually put something cohesive together that was pleasing to the ear. Much longer than 2 weeks even if I'd done nothing but play harp.
