From: "Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] slide chrom v short harp
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:39:19 -0500
Leave it to Peloquin to stir the pot again. :-0
If you want to keep your sanity, ego, confidence level in check and
be serious about what you are doing MUSICALLY then stay away from the
harmonica altogether. Learn the guitar or keyboard first. After a
few years, then pick up both concurrently.
This is Peloquin's secret. What really sucks is that he's a better
harmonica player than most and it's not his first instrument. Then
again there seems to be a mthod to his madness.
Peloquin for President!
>
>
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] slide chrom v short harp
>Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:02:17 -0700
>
>>
>>>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
>>http://tinyurl.com/5tpjg
>>http://www.harpsax.com
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Harp-L is sponsored by SPAH, http://www.spah.org
>>Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx
>>http://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-l
>>
Chris Michalek
www.michalekstrone.com
CD Available
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michalekstrone