Greetings! I also didn't know that I will see you here, it is the big pleasure for me! I have looked several years ago at your video and have admired it. You couldn't give me a back background sound (a sound on a background), excuse I do not know as to be expressed more precisely, my English bad. I very much would like to play yours jam
Hello my friend and welcome to the forum! Nice to find you here as well. I played that piano track myself for this video, and I'm not sure if I still have it because this was done a couple of years ago. I am honored that you would want to play this jam. I really need to post some new videos in 2011! I have also watched your videos and I like your playing!
So I've been doing this for a while and listening even longer and I have to say what I've said more than once in the past: This is one of my top favorites of all time: lucid and tense. It really really arrests me. I even had Todd tune one of my harps for me after hearing this.... ---------- myspacefacebook
My o my, that is one of the finest pieces I've heard on a harp. I simply love it. Effortlessly, graceful, fluid,soulful (there are just not enough adjectives) playing and such wonderful tone and this on a high E.
Also it reminds me of just how great the Golden Melody can sound.
Todd you've just got to record more videos cos I've worn this one out listening to it over the last year!!
@Rubes Ah yes, When I say high E, I mean the normal E which has a high pitch as opposed to the Low E, if that makes sense. As we know higher pitched harps are harder to play as they take a lot more chops and the bends are trickier to control which makes Todd's riff even more impressive.
@Todd I think I read somewhere that you adjusted the tuning on this harp. Could you tell me what you did please and whether your solo is manageable on a standard tuned harp. I would love to try this piece but you're just playing too darn fast!! Give us a break and slow down a bit!!! :)
@Micha - Yes, genesis is correct that it's kinda like snoring, except that the sound is coming from the tongue vibrating against the roof of the mouth. It's a lick I learned from listening to Terry McMillan, and I've used it for over 20 years.
@Greyowlphotoart - walterharp is correct. I retuned the 7 draw down a half step which can be done pretty easily with a jeweler's file. To try and play some of these exact licks in the higher register on a standard harp would be virtually impossible.
Yeah Bear, thats the one that I keep hitting on. The piano sounds like a lot of the piano I heard in church down south when I was growing up.
I'm always looking for more stuff like this on the net. For someone who is learning, or at least for me, its priceless. I think the reason for that has to do with being that here you have someone that is well recorded in that you can hear the music clearly, you can see his hands up close, the music is played slowly enough for beginners to learn a lick or two, and the music is far and away from being just another dry lesson.
There's a lot value in having someone describe what they are doing and trying to talk you into good habits and techniques but I'm thinking that my most productive hours spent practicing are when I get busy with something exactly like this. I would guess that there is not a whole lot of money to be made in harmonica videos but if someone like Todd were selling stuff like this at 10 or 15 bucks a pop I would absolutely have to try and squeeze that expense into my budget.
Ronnie Shellist is another one who has a lot of really meaty stuff up on YouTube.
I had seen your name on many posts here, and I thought I recalled you from seeing/hearing your impressive playing at SPAH. My recollection was correct.
That is fine playing on this video! Do you use this tuning frequently?
EDIT - Just found your Harp Tunings video... Question answered.
@phogi - I just play piano by ear... I'm not even sure how to explain it in the proper way, but the 4 basic chords used are B, E, F# and G7. Hope that helps a little.
