Here is my attempt at Red House w/a local rock band. The band is kind enough to let me gain some experience with a 'live' band (playing in front of 8 drunk people) on their slow night. So much to learn and fun to have in the process!
This forum is such a great learning place...thank you all! Comments and advise will be greatly appreciated.
This was my first live attempt at tongue blocking the warble. Lots of these woodshed things feel easy in the apartment but w/the band its different. BBQ Bob and others stated the importance of playing live and it is nerve racking but educational. Oh and a lot of fun! You get one run through w/o stopping. Your lucky to have a guitar bro to play and practice with.
Intonation equals feeling of the song playing and the more the instrument becomes familiar the better it feels and sounds. Do you agree? I feel the music but my inexperience w/the instrument is preventing it from coming out. With practice, lots of listening, and advice I continue.
Been playing the tenor sax again which also has helped with the harp. I did draw in on the sax tonight feeling like it a was harp. Doesn't work!
Yeh Bro:) its great when your at home you have time to relax and feel the song, Know what you are going to do next a Warble or vibrato in a certian place of the song:)
But once you get up on stage it gets a bit rushed we tend to clance over notes nerves kick in, we rush a bit this is where we tend to not get a full rich tone:)
I took time to listen hard Because the guys are loud and the only thing i was worryed about was your clanceing over the notes effecting your tone on the bent notes:)
You Got it Happening and your out there doing it thats a Big Pluss, Heres a tip i do every Jam i go to lately Take a Recording device and record yourself, and then go home and tear shreads of your self:) ---------- Cheers:)
My twopence worth. For a start, when I'm confronted with that big heavy Hendrix imitation, I always find it very hard to make the harp fit in, that is if I can even be heard. There's a lot of stuff going on there.
What I tend to do is, the more I feel that the harp is getting drowned out, the less I try to compete with the band. If they want to hear all the instruments, they can tone down; if they don't, they can just make a lot of noise. We've all been there.
Anyway, I'm not saying you did badly. What I would add, though, is two things:
1) Perhaps this isn't fair, but it sounded to me as though your tone was coming not so much from your throat as from the front of the mouth. That 4 draw sounded a little harsh to me. Also, you seemed to use the 4 draw as a bit of an anchor or safety blanket. If you're going to use any note for that purpose, make it the 2 draw. If you want to, you can make a whole 12 bar solo out of it. Remember the sax solo in Roxy Music's Let's stick together?
2) Don't forget that not every note you play has to be a sustained one. I don't remember once hearing you stab a chord here or there. The ensuing silence when you do that kind of thing can make people's ears prick up, especially on a slower number.
Great to have some useful feedback! Im going to take singing lessons from a popular jazz singer here for getting more control over my breathing and do some singing on a couple of songs.
