MrVerylongusername
1138 posts
Jul 19, 2010
2:53 PM
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Just wondering, I looked at the source for the page and noticed the file was in a dropbox folder. Is it in your public folder? - otherwise I don't think embedding it here is going to work.
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MrVerylongusername
1139 posts
Jul 19, 2010
2:54 PM
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Ah, my post crossed with yours. Still can't access it.
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MrVerylongusername
1140 posts
Jul 19, 2010
2:56 PM
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Yeah, needs to be in the public folder to be accessed by us
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tookatooka
1550 posts
Jul 19, 2010
3:20 PM
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OK TahoeMike. Got it. I deleted my earlier posts to keep your thread clean.
As for the harp, well, you've got it out there in the big wide world for us all to hear. Yeah! Big Balls and all that. It'll be a breeze from now on.
I noticed a nice vibrato early on in your playing. It sounded like throat vibrato and it sounded good.
You seem to be going for the big dramatic wailing stuff a little too much for my taste. I thought it could have done with some lighter melodic playing with the big dramatic wails kept in reserve and used more sparingly.
Just my two penniesworth - for what it's worth.
All in all good effort keep it up.
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TahoeMike00
49 posts
Jul 19, 2010
3:30 PM
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@tookatooka - I'll take the 2 pennies.
Dramatic - yeah, point taken. A little too dramatic for a backing track that sounds like it's from a Viagra/Cialis commercial.
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The more I learn about harmonica, the more I learn how much more there is to learn.
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harpdude61
266 posts
Jul 19, 2010
4:47 PM
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I sense that you desire to play with lots of feeling. Great! I hear some good licks. Just keep practicing timing and tone.
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TahoeMike00
50 posts
Jul 19, 2010
5:59 PM
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@ harpdude61 This is the interesting thing (to me anyways) is this is not at all what I have been "practicing" and I would have not considered this my "style" (although at less than 3 months of playing, I am just barely getting clean single hole draws etc. let alone a style) but this is just what came out when I clicked the record button.
I would really like to learn more groovin' jammin' stuff ala Adam's crossroad blues for harmonica mbh.182. That was the very first 'how-to' YouTube vid I hit, and I was hooked!
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The more I learn about harmonica, the more I learn how much more there is to learn.
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jbone
367 posts
Jul 19, 2010
8:35 PM
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"The more I learn about harmonica, the more I learn how much more there is to learn."
truer words never spoken Mike! let me tell you, at 3 months or so i was nowhere near where you are right now.
and with about 38 years' on and off work, play, and experience playing harp, i assure you, there is always more to learn.
i will say this: a large part of my learning came from listening to the heroes of the instrument. the list for me is longer then i can type between now and bed time. i'm sure you have your list too and it will keep getting bigger as you seek more examples of what the lowly harp can be made to do.
i suggest you stay pretty basic for a while. keep working on your embouchere- it sounds like a pucker or lip purse to me, is that right? which is where i began, and stayed for over 20 years. your lip muscles, tongue, jaw, etc all have to be trained and strengthened, the only way i know is to stick a harp in one's face and play.
you are at the threshold of a really fine journey. don't be afraid to take breaks but DON'T QUIT!
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