[Harp-L] Re: Harp Legacy of young geezers

["Jonathan Metts" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got my first harp almost three and a half years ago after falling in love 
with Bob Dylan's music.  My attempts at learning guitar were not going well, 
and I wanted to try a completely different instrument.  Harp was the right 
choice.  I learned the basics from Dave Gage's site back when it was free. 
That summer I studied abroad in Russia, and I had become bored with my first 
position song tabs, so I took my rudimentary bending technique and basically 
taught myself to play second position.  I would play for at least an hour or 
two every afternoon in my empty dorm room.  (I'd wait to go into town until 
later, because the sun doesn't "set" until 4:00 AM or so in St. Petersburg.) 
I also accidentally got my first overblow that summer.  When I got back to 
the States, I learned the blues scale outright and also started work on 
tongue slaps and vibrato.  I learned embouchure from Gage's site but 
otherwise I was almost completely self-taught until Jason Ricci turned me 
onto Harp-L.

Jonathan Metts