[Harp-L] Harp practice



I have been thinking lately about how I practice and never seem to really to advance any further than I already am.
I always think to myself that I will start to concentrate on practising more and more complex horn lines on the harp and tone shaping and make an effort to learn whole songs by the people I like, (Piazza, Smith, Horton, Gruenling etc, etc).
Yet I always end up doing the same thing and just start jammin' on my harp (especially chromatic 3rd position stuff) and therefore never really make any headway into where I want to go with it.
I mean I always end up playing the same riffs and runs, use basically the same phrasing and so on.
I find tone practice the hardest thing to do, it seems no matter how hard I try it just don't seem to change.
Through the passage of time I have learned quite a few tunes by Piazza, Smith, Horton, Gruenling etc. But it's more by osmosis (hearing them over and over again) rather than a concerted effort on my part to learn them.


I was wondering how everybody else structures their practice?

Paul





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