[Harp-L] Re: Question about doing overblow

[Chen John <killkli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your useful advise ^^
now finally i could got the forth drawing reed to
sound
but somehow it's too high  @@
the overblow on hole 4 should be D#
but me first sound is F  T_T
and then i tried some more times finally it drop to E
but still no D#
haha......... I think it's just requires more hard
practice XD
--- Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chen John;
>                   It's like the old gag about the
> tourist asking the
> hipster how to get to Carnegie Hall: "Practise,
> Man!".
> The only thing I can say is make sure you know what
> you are shooting
> for. Remember that when you overbend, you are
> playing the opposite reed,
> and it will play a semitone higher than its natural
> pitch. Hence hole 7
> overdraw will play the blow C reed ('C' harp is the
> only language I will
> speak!)taking it to C#; same as draw bend four or
> draw bend one.
> In fact, if you drawbend hole one to C# (or Db if
> you like) then the
> same at hole four, then do exactly the same thing at
> hole seven (and
> then hole ten if you're game) all in smooth
> succession, you might very
> well hit it.
> If you can't hear the note, it's going to be a lot
> harder to get it.
> Sing it, whistle it, play it on hole one, or four,
> play it on a guitar
> or whatever, Just make sure you can hear it.
> Overdrawing on eight will only give you an F, which
> you've got
> naturally on draw nine. The overdraw on nine is Ab,
> same as six draw
> bend and on ten, an incredible C#.
> I only hope its all worth it. I get a great kick out
> of playing
> chromatically on the diatonic, but like Richard
> Hunter, I am not
> convinced of the aesthetics. Not yet anyway. The
> overbends still sound
> pretty ugly to me, yet I'm alwaysl fascinated by it.
> Good luck,
> Rick Dempster
> PS. For any fellow Melbournians, the quickest (and
> by far the easiest)
> way to Carnegie Hall is on the number 67 tram.
> 

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