Re: [Harp-L] Re: Youtube of LD Miller with John Popper

[billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I forgot to say in my other note that learning the solos note for note when you are just learning is also a good tool to get the techniques and signature riffs down. then from there, they can be used as parts or tools or a launching point for saying what comes from *your* voice.

Bill

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From: Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Larry Cee wrote:
> <to Bill- this comment/question is not in any way meant as a put-down, and it is 
> <merely being posed to invite comment from generous harp players, including you, 
> <who can share educational harp comments with hobbyists like me who value 
> learning
> <from Harp-L --so with all due respect, here goes:  You remarked about how hard 
> it
> <is to to try to tab Popper's solos and to use Amazing Slow Downer (not sure 
> <what it is) to get his solos down.  My question, to you and to other harp 
> players,
> <isn't it bad form or uncool to copy a solo note-for-note?  
> 
> I've learned a lot of solos note-for-note.  My book Jazz Harp contains a dozen 
> or so transcribed solos by Toots, Miles Davis, Charlie Christian, Stevie Wonder, 
> etc. etc.  I learned to play all of them while I was writing the book, and it 
> didn't start or stop there.
> 
> What better way to find out how to put a great solo together than to learn to 
> play a great solo note for note?  I wouldn't play someone else's solo in a 
> performance, but I've played a lot of other people's solos so I could become a 
> better soloist.
> 
> Thanks, Richard Hunter
> hunterharp.com 
> 
> 
> 
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