captainbliss
345 posts
Dec 22, 2010
3:51 PM
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'Tis the season for giving and receiving, so how about a thread where all the posts look like this?
1. A really useful piece of Harp-How
2. How / from whom you came by it and thanks if appropriate
and where there is
NO deviation from harmonica content at all
NO following-up or spinning-off
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captainbliss
346 posts
Dec 22, 2010
3:53 PM
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"You can't tense into playing the harmonica. Relax and breathe from as deep a place as you can."
Wonderful advice from the wonderful Grant Dermody.
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Last Edited by on Dec 22, 2010 3:56 PM
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captainbliss
347 posts
Dec 22, 2010
3:55 PM
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"Too many harp players tend to focus FAR TOO MUCH on soloing and NOT ENOUGH on getting the time and the groove together so that you FEEL the groove happening 24/7/365"
Barbeque Bob nails it.
Again.
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Last Edited by on Dec 22, 2010 3:56 PM
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captainbliss
348 posts
Dec 22, 2010
4:04 PM
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"You could even argue that tapping your foot might be an integral part of some harmonica styles."
The excellent Joe Filisko (paraphrased).
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captainbliss
351 posts
Dec 23, 2010
3:51 AM
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Sine wave bend practice: start unbent, make a soft, smooth, slow bend all the way down and all the way back up to unbent. If you were to plot pitch vs time on a graph, you'd have a sine wave. This is a great way to build control.
My take on a great conversation with maestro Dennis Gruenling.
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tookatooka
1966 posts
Dec 23, 2010
4:30 AM
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Take a lot of funny words like, tit, tick, chicken, tikka, tacka, tooka, nucka, ducka, gucka, tucka.
Put them all in your mouth and mix 'em up.
Spit them into the two hole of an A harp.
Do you sound like Sonny Terry?
Must be the harp is busted.
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captainbliss
353 posts
Dec 23, 2010
4:50 AM
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"Own the note"
Be in control of the volume, attack, pitch, intensity, tone, tremelo, vibrato of very note you play.
Sound advice from the superb-sounding Lee Sankey
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