[Harp-L] tongue block music reading

[Philharpn@xxxxxxx]

The reason the list goes to sleep during SPAH week is that all the smart 
people go to SPAH. We dummies are left at home.

I find lip pursing particularly useful for playing octaves and corner 
switching.

Actually, the best diatonic harmonica is the Hohner Slide harp -- which is 
the best of all worlds. It retains the Richter blues harp layout as well as the 
bending capability all of us know on the Marine Band.

Plus, it offers the reach of a chromatic with the touch of a lever without 
getting into the double C's -- blow pattern of CEGC CEGC that come with the solo 
tuned chromatics.


PLus, it allow blow bending on all the lower octave notes just like on valved 
Suzuki -- as well as the standard chromatic. Pretty slick. Plus, it''s a 
little bit larger and thus louder than the standard small 10-hole.

Reading music -- combined with the knowledge of the harp layout and available 
bent notes -- allows the player to glance at a lead sheet (melody line with 
chords indicated, just like in the Fake Books) and tell right away if a 
particular song is playable.   Sight reading -- playing at performance speed from 
looking at the dots is another skill. Reading just well enough to hack through a 
tune, at quarter speed, with the right timing and hitting all the right notes 
is another.

Music notation is just another form of tablature -- once the player 
understands that all the CEGs are blow notes and the others must be draw.



In a message dated 8/18/06 10:15:29 AM, harpie@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:07:55AM -0700, fjm wrote:
> > Fun to watch the list just go dead during SPAH week.  Other lists don't
> > go nearly as dead.  fjm
> 
> Perhaps this would be a good time to discuss those important issues
> without the riffraff around:
> 
> - which is better: TONGUE BLOCKING or those stupid pucker guys?
> - why the diatonic harmonica way better than those cumbersome
>   chromatic thingies
> 
> and, finally,
> 
> - how hard it is to read the reports from SPAH but yet I am anxiously
>   awaiting the next installment!
> 
> jaime - wishing he was at SPAH, but not bitter about it, just blue!
> --
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