RE: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SOunds like you need to get your breathing down.

Get a book on drum patterns and practice paradiddles on the harp.
Substitue the (left/right) LRLRRLRLRR stuff for (blow/draw)BDBDDBDBDD
etc..  Sounds corny but it works.  



Good Luck.


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>---- Original Message ----
>From: harpluvred@xxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops
>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:15:52 -0500
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>>What I'm trying to learn is how Charlie McCoy and Terry McMillan and
>> various county harp session players play those lightening fast
>notes.
>> --I don't mean the usual county licks--    I mean that blazing fast
>stuff
>> that is used on the up tempo songs. Those Nashville players are so
>good at that.
>>
>>What are the "notes (holes) and breathing patterns" in those torrid
>> chops? They seem to be in the mid section a 10 hole harp most of
>the time...?  
>>I have tried off and on for years and years to figure that out with
>no avail. It
>> would be soooo gratifying to be able to do that. 
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>> Should the harp be country tuned? Is that a given on country songs?
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>>("not" a Lee Oscar country tuned MM). But the usual 10 hole Hohner
>harps. 
>>            Ed
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Chris Michalek

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