Re: [Harp-L] overblow learning tip.

[Will Vogtman <will_vogtman@xxxxxxxxx>]

After all the set-up and technique, the player must the BELIEVE that the pitch is there--really BELIEVE it--hear the pitch before it is played.  This made the difference for me.

Aalprice@xxxxxxx wrote:   Hi Harp-ler's.

A technique i use when i teach people how to OB is to ask them to play a 
blow bend on hole 8 and if they can do this well enough i ask them to blow hole 
6,but tell them to put their mind in the position of playing that same hole 8 
blow bend. Provided the harp has been tweeked for OB's i find i get a 
really good result from this as well as the folk i teach.

I think i remember Howard Levy saying that OB's were a case of mind over 
matter....was it in H.I.P. ? Anyhoo...this lead me to trying this approach 
and as i say it's one of the best ways to produce an OB short of taking the 
harp apart. In saying that the sellotape method sounds great for allowing the 
beginning player to knock one out and sustain it.

Regards to all...Al Price.
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