Re: [Harp-L] Re: The 'Flexible Gospel'...now Melodic lines vs. Tone

["Rob Paparozzi" <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well Said Mojo Red!
Melodic Lines and Tone go together like "Love n' Marriage"

You can't have one w/o the other...."Frank" musta' played some Harp,-)

Nice Job Ken
best,
rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mojo Red" <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: The 'Flexible Gospel'...now Melodic lines vs. Tone


> Hey, awesome discussion here, folks. I love this
> board!
>
> Okay, I really ~loved~ Rob P's post regarding the
> value of knowing/using ALL embrochures! I'm no
> bad-ass player, but my technique is definately in
> both pucker/TB camps, and I have no intention of
> changing. :-)
>
> But I wanted to respond to some things Larry
> brought up in his recent post:
>
> --- IcemanLE@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Fat tone has emotional punch. With the right
> > gripmicampattitude, one note will move an
> > audience to its feet.
>
> This is especially true in blues IMO. Was it Muddy
> who once said... "It's ALL about tone."
>
> > However, if you personally want to go to a
> > different level, leaning more toward the
> > challenging intellectual excitement and away
> > from the basic emotional response, musical line
> > is the way to go.
>
> To date have seen three basic phases in my
> harmonica path (so far).
> 1) Learning to play the damned thing.
> 2) Going for deep tone.
> 3) Gaining more lyricism (musical lines).
>
> These phases, though initiated at seperate times
> (at least consciously) have been equally difficult
> for me to "master" if that's the right word.
> Equally frustrating, equally difficult (in their
> own ways) and equally satisfying once I was able to
> please myself (and drunk or sober audiences).
>
> Okay, I am now entering a 4th phase of my learning
> curve... Consciously inching ~each~ along
> ~together~, trying not to emphasize one too much
> over the other... expanding a little technique
> here, a little more monsterish tone there,
> encorporating a smoother musical line everywhere.
>
> I love to improve my technique
> I love to improve my tone
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