RE: [Harp-L] slide chrom v short harp

["Eric Neumann" <eneumann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>[mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Peloquin

>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.
 
This thinking is precisely what got me interested in chromatic
harmonica. And as a "blues guy", I find the chromatic harp a real step
up musically. The first harp I ever bought myself was a Chrominika II. I
never really understood it well enough to actually learn it concurrently
- and somehow gravitated toward diatonic playing and rock/blues. Now
that I am well steeped in the diatonic layout, it is easier now, for me
to understand how to transition over to chromatic. I feel like I short
changed myself all that time by not enjoying/learning the chrom much
more.

<snip>
>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.

Amen. Albeit that I am only likely to focus on third position chromatic
blues playing... hahah..