[Harp-L] all of you (ok most of you) to be very intelligent to extremely insightful



Yesterday marked the 30 th anniversary of the day I asked a girl to my steady. we are entering our 29 year of marital bliss. (yes she is behind me) I just got slapped in the head.....
ok she left....
back to my story...
she tells me the only thing I have going for my self is my blue eyes (hence the name Blueyes) and my sense of humor.  That's funny because very few people understand my humor.The first song we dance to was "please don't let me be understood" .  for some reason my intensions are misunderstood.
I have found all of you (ok most of you) to be very intelligent to extremely insightful.. I have enjoyed the recent  reading of  comments regarding learning, subconscious, dreams, leading into the understanding of really playing what you feel is inside.
We are all different, so why should we all play the same... I understand we need to know the basic's fundaments. But I also understand we must play to our own step.

my days are numbered, ( each time my kids brought home a cat I would tell the cats their days are numbered )I will be heading back to work. and since I work out in the field I wont have access to a computer.
I do have an IPhone but its hard to really respond. I will continue to read all your comments. and continue to play. 
Thank you Elizabeth for keeping me straight.. 
There are others out their, you know who you are. who have also helped me both on and off list and I thank you. 


abner

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: EGS1217@xxxxxxx 
  To: cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: John.Balding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:55 AM
  Subject: Subject: [Harp-L] Harp Dream (My answers and take)


  Hi Abner:

  I wasn't discounting anything John said about the subconscious mind at all..he made some excellent points with which I agree absolutely...only I didn't think he was aware that you had just begun playing harmonica a couple of months ago while recuperating from neck surgery....and so was addressing only that part of his post about trying to get a specific 'lick' .  

  The only trouble with keeping a recorder handy, is that under the circumstances you describe, your wife probably would have been unable to get to it to depress the button with you parked on her chest as you've said <G>, and unless the microphone was especially good you might very well have been disappointed with the playback. 

  Better that your memory of the event is what you have to go by ;)    ....although for future practice, recording is definitely something we all could benefit from according to many people here. 

  I have wanted to suggest...no matter what genre or style you wish to play, perhaps acquiring (depending on your budget), some of the Book/CD play alongs...either the Hal Leonard (the ones I like best) or Jamey Aebersold.  

  I don't restrict myself to harmonica books, but get ones for flute, saxophone and even piano..since the tracks which leave IN the instrument then become great backing tracks for me to play over. :)  

  I've found good on-line sites where I've bought (new) book/CD combos for Jazz, R&B, Rock and even some Country (I have wide-ranging tastes in music).  It's a lot of fun playing along, but I also use my CD collection of Jazz Instrumentals downloaded onto my new Ipod (I've decided to join the 21st Century) as 'backing tracks' as well.  

  If you're stuck in bed using a lap-top, try playing along with your server's online radio station...or google (or let me know the genre you're interested in and I'll find some for you)...radio stations you can click on to have play all day if you want to play along. 

   I'm working up to finally getting ready to videotape myself playing...perhaps even on my keyboard which I've never before thought of doing despite having both camcorder and keyboard for umpteen years, and since I have a Zoom recorder too now, might try that as well.  I acquired it to tape other people's performances....never thinking of recording my own.

  I did get a huge chuckle out of your wanting "to make it as the first sleeping blues player..."

  You have a whacky sense of humour which I quite enjoy.

  Elizabeth


  Abner writes:
  good question, and unfortunately my wife thought I was joking until I started playing facing the corner of the room.  I wish we had some kind of recorder.
  She explains that my music was "melodic" .  When I first started and did not know anything about how to pucker or draw I would just make noise and listen and did what I liked...She called it "melodic" yet not hitting the single notes cleanly.  This so called sleep waking did what I started just cleaner. I not sure if I'm making any sense..
  I can tell you know, that since that night hitting the single notes is now an understanding and muscle learning. also since that night I listen the songs and their beats.
  Someone wrote on this site about just that... 
  listen. 
  now I'm understanding....
  I'm still wondering how the neck brace fit in all this..

  I have always believed in dreams being a strong part of ones life, its just hard to understand them. 
  Dream walking or playing or what ever I did was the first for me. And it showed me a lot.

  I still have a  long journey in front of me and it will last a life time.

  abner (Blueyes, still dreaming  


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