Re: Learning to Overblow

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

.......First, the better you get at overblowing and at integrating it into
>your total style, the less it will stick out - it becomes part of the
>tonal texture of your playing.
>
>Second, even regular bends stick out. But you can find ways to make
>that work for you in a musical way, as a phrasing device. Changes in
>articulation, rhythmic emphasis, and tone color all work for that
>purpose.
>
>Whether you want to go down that road or seek other solutions - XB-
>40, Discrete Comb, half-valving, special tunings, slide harp (or some
>combination of any of these) - or simply deal with the standard blow-
>draw harmonica as it is given to you - is a matter of preference. All
>offer possibilities, and disadvantages as well as advantages,


>Winslow

It's refreshing to read a well-balanced view of the matter.

Steve.


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