Re: [Harp-L] Way Over My Head: Good Bye Pork Pie Hat

Pierre,

I don't know how good I am, but we'll let that pass. . .

I think you may be right. It's a new Special 20 that I've only used a couple of times, but it does sound like the gap is a bit too wide.

Thanks for the exercises-- I need to do more technical work on harp, that's for sure.

Thank you,

maurice

At 12:49 PM 11/05/2005, Pierre wrote:

I assume you're a pretty good player and therefore should be able to do this, so I would say, check the gap on your 2 draw. I suspect the gap may be too wide causing too much air loss and poor response.

Practice Bb major scales at high speed (and low speed) on the Bb harp starting from 1 blow. I do this daily on a C harp to strengthen my diaphragm.

Pratice bending 2 hole all the way down slowly and back up with fat tone (no loss of signal). Same goes for 3 hole. Vibrato during this exercise is good too.

Pierre.




----- Original Message ----- From: "maurice richard libby" <blues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Way Over My Head: Good Bye Pork Pie Hat


I jave a hard time hitting that whole note bend consustently-at least it's just a passing tone, so I could just let it pass--but I'm a little too anal for that ;-)

I'll try the G .

thanks,

maurice

At 10:57 AM 11/05/2005, Chris Michalek wrote:

The Eb is the 2 draw whole step bend


I play that song on a G harp in 11th position.

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: blues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Way Over My Head: Good Bye Pork Pie Hat
>Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:51:39 -0600
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>>I'm getting in way over my head I am attempting to play the Mingus
>tune
>>"Good By Pork Pie Hat" on diatonic. The Fake book  version is
>transcribed
>>in Ab (it's actually a blues in F) and I've been playing it
>basically in
>>second position on a Bb harp. Mostly it;s pretty easy but some of
>the bends
>>are a litlle tough. There's an E natural (16th note passing tone)
>that
>>requires a really quick accurate bend on the 2nd hole draw. But for
>the
>>life of me I can't figure out how to get an Eb on the lower octave.
>>
>>i'm only mentioning this because it's all your fault--if I hadn't
>>subscribed to this list, I never would have even thought about
>attempting this.
>>
>>My big problem is that I've scheduled this tune as part of our
>regular
>>repertoire, (hitherto I've played it on guitar, but know that we
>have a
>>full time 2nd guitar I'm able to play more harp).
>>
>>Any suggestions? a better position on a different harp? buy a
>chromatic?
>>
>>thanks y'all
>>
>>maurice
>>
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