Re: Reading for Shortharp

[Iceman6300@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/1/03 7:54:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
robbingham@xxxxxxxxx writes:


>  Do
> they really have all the notes they want you to play
> charted out??? Can one of you guys describe a little
> what they actually give you [Mike, Richard, Iceman]???


For my session, the songs were traditional American tunes. The lead sheets 
were single note melodies written on the chord chart. The producer discussed 
when he wanted me to play the exact melody as written, when he wanted me to 
lay out, when he wanted a harmony part played to the melody and when he 
wanted pure improvisation. At the end of each successful take, he asked for 
certain notes to be played as a long sustain. This gave him plenty of 
harmonica music to cut and paste in his final mixdown. The producer wasn't 
"harmonica friendly" in his requests. In other works, he didn't have a clue 
what was cross harp possible. He just wanted certain notes and phrases 
played. It was up to me to decide which harmonica in which position to use.

The Iceman