I recently came up with a little chordal ditty, but I can decide if I like it on a standard richter, or if I like is on a Natural Minor harp, so I thought I'd record it both ways and see which one you guys like better. In a standard harp it's all Sonny Terry like, which is cool, but on a natural minor, it's all Reggae like, which is also cool. I can go either way with it and expand it to a full song, but I'd like to know which one you folks would prefer (to aid my decision).
Version one is on a D harp with the standard Richter tuning played in second position (key of A).
Version 2 is on in second position on an Am Natural Minor harp (key of Am).
Thanks for having a listen Nate, I appreciate it! Although you haven't helped me to decide which way to go! ;)
I'm leaning toward natural minor, but I HATE (let me reiterate, HATE) the Lee Oskars. Just terrible for me and the way I play. I need to buy some Seydel or Hohner natural minors....
i prefer the the first vamp in major because the minor chords on the second sound sort of gypsyish. nothing wrong with that of course. i guess it just depends on what you're gonna do with this. ---------- MP hibachi cook for the yakuza doctor of semiotics superhero emeritus
Last Edited by on Jul 07, 2010 8:43 PM
I like the first one. The single notes seem to mix better with the chords.
I know what you mean about Lee Oskars. One was enough for me. The only harp I've played that I liked besides my Golden Melodys is the Bushman Delta Frost.
Wow, thanks guys! I appreciate all of your inputs! I suppose, ultimately, that Boris is right. I agree with what everyone says about both tracks. On a standard harp, it sounds, well, standard. I like that, but now that I've mulled on it, and now that I've gotten all your input, I think I'm going to go with the Natural Minor. It's more "my" style, and when I make it into a full song, it will stand out as more original. Especially because my style means that turning it into a song will involve laying down a looped beatbox track, and playing over that. The natural minor version seems to go a bit more with that. I hope that once I get my new reedplates from Seydel USA and retune them with the Blu-Tak method (thanks to Jonnieharp and Brandan Powers for informing about this method), the "pinched" sound that I believe comes from the weird reeds in the Lee Oskars (those short fatty reeds they use always sound to "tight" to me) will go away, and the calliope sound that X hears (and I hear a little too) will go away. ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
i think if you had done both of those with rhythm tracks we would have had a better grasp on what was up. i have a vid on the chopping block. care to give it a shot? ---------- MP hibachi cook for the yakuza doctor of semiotics superhero emeritus
