RE: [Harp-L] Harp practice

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to get out of your rut then stop listening to other
harmonica players.  If you really want to get out of your rut then
stop playing for a few weeks.  Practise writing with your opposite
hand, learn to cook, learn to play another instrument do something
creative that is not playing harmonica.

I guarantee that you will have a fresh set of ears when you return to
the instrument


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>---- Original Message ----
>From: kingley@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Harp practice
>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:29:16 +0100
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>>I have been thinking lately about how I practice and never seem to 
>>really to advance any further than I already am.
>>I always think to myself that I will start to concentrate on
>practising 
>>more and more complex horn lines on the harp and tone shaping and
>make 
>>an effort to learn whole songs by the people I like, (Piazza, Smith,
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>>Horton, Gruenling etc, etc).
>>Yet I always end up doing the same thing and  just start jammin' on
>my 
>>harp (especially chromatic 3rd position stuff) and therefore never 
>>really make any headway into where I want to go with it.
>>I mean I always end up playing the same riffs and runs, use
>basically 
>>the same phrasing and so on.
>>I find tone practice the hardest thing to do, it seems no matter how
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>>hard I try it just don't seem to change.
>>Through the passage of time I have learned quite a few tunes by
>Piazza, 
>>Smith, Horton, Gruenling etc. But it's more by osmosis (hearing them
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>>over and over again) rather than a concerted effort on my part to
>learn 
>>them.
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>>I was wondering how everybody else structures their practice?
>>
>>Paul
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Chris Michalek

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