[Harp-L] slide chrom v short harp

["Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>

>  Nay, 'I' would START with a chromatic........much much 
> easier.......smokey-joe

If you are serious about what you are doing MUSICALLY and not just 
HARMONICA-WISE--learn both concurrentlly. They are similar enough in layout 
that it is really not confusing. Technique can be almost identical Your 
diatonic playing, as it progresses, will have a concrete model (delivery 
address as Smo-Joe puts it) upon which to base your MUSICAL thinking. I 
started on the button beast about one year after beginning on diatonic. The 
note layouts of each/both are permantly imprinted in my brain. The mental 
pictures are almost identical. IMHO, the lack of a firm knowledge of a fixed 
pitch instrument with a logical, mentally visible note layout (slide chrom, 
piano, woodwind--NOT guitar or brass) holds back a lot of short harp players 
from developing a deeper musical knowledge.

happy bending and buttoning,
Michael Peloquin
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