Re: [Harp-L] Re: Deep exhale - more reasons

[michael harp <diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

adding to Hurricane's input...

When I was taking music lessons a few years back my teacher (a jazz flutist)
told me to improvise with authority. If you sound timid in certain parts of
a solo it will be noticable. If you hit wrong notes (we all know there are
no wrong notes:)) it will sound like you got lost and hit wrong notes.

If you wail through your solos with equal volume and tone mistakes won't
sound like mistakes. Uncertainty won't be obvious.  Solos will sound like
you are playing "outside the box".

A good harp  example of this are Bill Barrett cd's. If he played timid you
would think he was making mistakes all over the place. Bill makes his sound
work like no other.

mike



on 3/23/05 8:03 PM, Hurrican Ramón at party_man1@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hurricane sezes :
> 
> The above posts are true and accurate , Pierre's question addresses it very
> well .
> 
> Deep breath - - 
> 
> Think of the very meaning of it and put it inside your minds eye as in how
> Jason Ricci or Charlie McCoy , Howard Levy and countless other accomplished
> harmonica players would put this question inside themselves leading up to
> their collective  day of " discovery " as it actually hit(s) him/them
> 
> - - You know how it hit them ? - -
> 
> I thought you'd never ask .......