Re: [Harp-L] Simultaneous blow and overblow

["46long Blake" <46long@xxxxxxxxx>]

And here I am trying desperately NOT to get the dissonant simultaneous notes
when I shoot for ob4 on my A harp...... I didn't know it was a virtue.....

 - Blake


On 4/18/06, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Paul -
>
> To play a regular blow and an overblow at the same time in the same
> hole, you just don't completely isolate the overblow - your mouth
> resonance is specific enough to make the overblow sound, but not
> specific enough to exclude the blow reed's note.
>
> I'm doing the simultaneous blow and overblow in Hole 1, not Hole 4.
> It seems to work best in Hole 1, where the blow note and the overblow
> note seem less likely to fight it out.
>
> On a C harp, yes, this gives both C and Eb notes. You could use this
> as part of a C minor chord or any other chord that uses those two
> notes. In the example I go from playing C and Eb together in Hole 1
> to playing C and E-natural together by releasing the overblow as I
> widen my embouchure to add Hole 2 Blow to the the chord.
>
> I've played around with doing it in Hole 3, which will give you G and
> C together. Why do that when Blow 3 and 4 will give you G and C? With
> the overblow chord, you can bend the C up to C# while holding the G
> (though the G will depress in pitch a little).
>
> Hole 2 will give you E and G# together - part of an E major chord.
>
> Winslow
>
> --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Bowering
> <paul_bowering@...> wrote:
>
> Says Winslow:
>
> >I've utilized a couple of extended overblow
> >techniques - bending overblows up one semitone, and
> >playing a blow and overblow at the same time in a
> >single hole.
>
> I'm currently sitting at a computer not equipped with
> speakers so I haven't heard the sample. I can bend an
> overblow okay but two simultaneous notes from a single
> hole? That's way cool. Do I understand that you can
> outline a Cm chord on Hole 4 (assuming a 'C' harp)? Is
> it musical? Please explain the technique further.
>
> Paul
>
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