Re: [Harp-L] Making connections

["Gordon Graham" <ggraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I have 2 ideas. 1st...begin with the 1st 3 notes playing as many ideas as
you can before adding the 4th, 5th...notes etc....(ala Dave Barrett).
Sometimes I will even just play 1 note all the way through a song and then
let myself go on the last few bars.
                           2nd...vary your backing tracks using variations
of the melodys or hooks as your leads. Hope this helps.

Gordon----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Wilson" <markwilson53@xxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:10 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Making connections


> I've had a few experiences where I've looked at and adopted something
fairly
> basic and simple, that has completely revolutionized my harmonica playing.
> I guess you'd call those experiences quantum leaps.  This seems really
basic
> now, but it took me more than 6 months to figure out that playing the root
> notes that fit with the I V  IV chords sounds really good, all the time,
> even if you can't do much of anything else. Of course, I'd come across
this
> info numerous times early on,  but for some reason it took 6 months for it
> to stick.  Another biggie was the play softly with resonance, achieve big
> tone, don't blow too hard, feel the music in your head thing that took me
> almost 3 years to get, (even though I'd heard it a million times).  It's a
> miracle, but now I can make a Special 20 last for more than 6 months.  In
> the past I'd blow one out in a weekend.
>
>  Here's what's getting me now.  I spent about an hour recording myself
> tonight playing 3rd position over a major I IV V.  With annoying
regularity,
> I went up the the 8 draw on the one chord and worked myself down to the 1
> draw. When I went back and listened the recordings, I thought to myself,
if
> I've played that lick once, I've played it five hundred and eighty seven
> billion, gazillion times!  OUCH!
>
>
> This is my biggest problem right now.  If you can't tell already, I'm in
> major slump mode, and have been there for almost 2 months.  I'm looking
for
> something to snap me out of it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
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