Re: Sonny Terry Whoop

["B.T" <bulldog483@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check out the beginning of Tom Balls book and Cd ,,Licks of Sonny Terry

There is a short but very strong cut of a lesson being taught by Sonny Terry
to some lucky guy in which he addresses the very woop you are talking about.
Plus it has all these really neat licks and all that there too.
An excellent buy for about 20 bucks or so

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Gatorharp@xxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Sonny Terry Whoop


>
>
>  vcblues@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> << Once again, I suggest everyone to become a part of Jerry Portnoys
Harmonica
>  Masterclass. This is taught among a lot of other blues harp methods. Is
>  there really anything that competes with Portnoys instructions? Really a
>  QUESTION, I do NOT know. >>
>
> portnoy's instructional is primarily aimed at teaching chicago style
blues.
> obviously, most techniques are transferable to other styles.  many styles
fed
> into chicago style playing (all those guys had delta roots), and they
often
> were influenced by things outside of blues.  and the influence of chicago
style
> harp has spread directly into lots of other music.  so, yeah, portnoy's
set is
> excellent most any diatonic player.
> however, things well outside of chicago style playing aren't really
> addressed, chief amongst them, the sonny terry whooping thing.  and while
portnoy is
> quite thorough, he's not able to give full attention to any one aspect or
> technique.
> the only other playing instructionals i have are the previously mentioned
> video on rhythm playing by madcat, and levy's overblow thing.  madcat's
focus is
> totally on rhythm playing (so much so, that when he talks about bending
notes,
> he refers you to a seperate video to learn bending if you can't already).
a
> good block of time is spent on whooping.
> i've only watched about a third of the levy tape, so can't say for sure
how
> it is.  i suspect that it's outside the scope of this thread.
>
> steven j gatorman
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