Dirty Dan
1 post
Aug 04, 2016
1:51 PM
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Reading the book and trying to follow along. Please give critique, I know my posture was bad sitting in that chair.
https://youtu.be/K7_dAhEh7xI
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didjcripey
1056 posts
Aug 04, 2016
3:12 PM
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Plenty to work on there... I expect you'll get smashed from some of the posters in here... I reckon the first thing you need is timing, and a feel for the groove. I'd suggest working with a backing track. Its a long road, but one day you find yourself wailing with the best of them :)
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Lucky Lester
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rogonzab
976 posts
Aug 04, 2016
4:57 PM
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You are reading the tabs right? learn the song first, then play it from other peoples.
You have a few notes from LW, but you can hear that does not sound like him right? That is the most important lesson, the notes are just a tiny part of music, groove an texture are everything.
Find your groove, try to find a good tone for you and then the notes are going to sound right.
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Sorry for any misspell, english is not my first language.
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John M G
61 posts
Aug 04, 2016
8:25 PM
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It really depends on what you actually want the critique on?
You have some bending skills going on and have some tongue blocked splits going on as well.
As for the piece you are playing, it does sound a bit stiff and stilted, like someone reading without intonation, deadpan, not a lot of feeling.
While it may be technically note correct (I'm not 100% sure about that because we can’t see your tabs). The playing at this stage isn't really recognizable as the piece by Little Walter and if this was your goal, as Lucky said, it's going to need more work, but that’s how we all get better.
Your ability to sight read and play tabs is something that’s going to be really useful to you as you continue to grow as a player, don’t let that slip.
I don't know how many other harp players can read and play direct from tabs? It’s something I’m trying to add back to my skill set to enable me to write stuff down I’m practicing on so I know where I am in a new piece I’m trying to learn.
All my early learning was done by ear and I'm now finding that I need some kind of charts to help with the learning process so don't give up on it.
I'd suggest that rather than try and remember the whole piece.
Try and get a few bars down in the rhythm and style of the piece you are wanting to play by listening and playing along with the track.
Work on these small chunks and then start stitching them together and don’t stop practicing.
I hope this helps, just keep plowing on through the various plateaus regardless.
Cheers JG
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Kingley
4035 posts
Aug 05, 2016
12:30 AM
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You need to put down the tab book and listen to Little Walter play the song. Listen to it over and over again and again. Get a feel for the groove and what Walter is playing. Then take your C harmonica and try playing just the first part of the intro. Nothing else, just that first part. Once you have that first part down perfectly, then move on to the next part. And so on.
To do this you're going to need to learn to tongue block as there are parts that can only be truly replicated by tongue blocking. There's a lot of stuff to work on in this song and it'll take time and patience to learn it. However what you learn from it will pay off in spades. It will open doors to learning lots of other classic blues songs. Stick with it you'll get there.
Last Edited by Kingley on Aug 05, 2016 12:30 AM
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SuperBee
3969 posts
Aug 05, 2016
1:26 AM
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Kingley is on the money here Dan. It's cool to have a transcription and play the notes but you gotta listen to the record and just do a chunk at a time.
I started playing that song one day and I didn't know what it was called. It's just a real distinctive head that got into mine without me noticing. I could tell it was little Walter but I had to listen to records until I found it. Then I found it was a fair bit different to what I'd been playing, but I could at least tell what it was because it had the general outline. That's one of my very favourite heads.
But get it a little piece at a time is the way to go I reckon
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Kingley
4036 posts
Aug 05, 2016
2:24 AM
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Dirty Dan, This is a quick and dirty example I made to give you a rough idea of what you should be aiming for.
Can't hold much longer intro
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Kingley
4037 posts
Aug 05, 2016
2:42 AM
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Dirty Dan, here's a quick and dirty demo of the kind of thing you should be aiming for. Hopefully the spam filter won't eat this post!
Can't hold out much longer intro
Last Edited by Kingley on Aug 05, 2016 2:42 AM
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Dirty Dan
2 posts
Aug 05, 2016
4:31 AM
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Awesome, thanks for the input.
It's been a year since I started, and I'm excited to use the information provided to expand my playing abilities.
Thanks again!
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