Re: [Harp-L] Looking for new inspiration

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim is right and I rarely listen to harmonica players because there is nothing I can personally gain from them... not from them as a musician but not from a "sound" stand point.

This is what I was listening to this morning and have been applying it to the harp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iimMKWF7SK0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTVn9-Offk

There are many ways to make music than just through the harp.  Listen to my clips in the garden  http://www.buddhasgarden.com



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Moyer [mailto:wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 06:05 AM
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re:  [Harp-L] Looking for new inspiration
>
>drori hammer wrote:
>> For many years I have listened to all the traditional blues harp 
>> players (as well as modern-day blues traditionalists), but I feel 
>> I want to hear what the "cutting edge" of diatonic harmonica 
>> players are doing. Can anyone suggest some good albums (or 
>> downloads) where I can hear good "modern" diatonic playing (E.G - 
>> use of overblows, different positions etc.). I have been listening 
>> a LOT lately to "Satan and Adam" and Carlos Del Junco,  but I`d 
>> like to hear others as well
>
>Okay, I know it's been said a thousand times, but here it is again: 
>Listen to something besides harmonica players for inspiration.  Now, 
>I'll admit I was turned on by folks like Carlos del Junco playing 
>the music I love on harmonica in a way I hadn't imagined or didn't 
>think possible, but the real inspiration for me came in trying to 
>play non-harmonica music on harmonica.  
>
>I started playing with a jazz quartet a couple of years ago, and 
>nothing pushed my capabilities as much as that.  One of the things I 
>look forward to most in learning a new piece now is finding the harp 
>key/tuning/position that best works with the melody and improv 
>sections of a jazz piece, then coming up with an arrangement.  There 
>is no "formula" for what will work best, so I find myself trying all 
>manner of different things until I'm satisfied.  Even when I have 
>something that "works", I'll keep trying it other ways. 
>
>There are some good sources for "real" jazz, if you want to just 
>browse: I love to tun into XM radio channel 70.  When I lived in the 
>Dallas, TX, area I used to listen to the radio station from the 
>University of North Texas (which has an outstanding music school).  
>Now that I've moved away, I listen to them online: 
>http://www.kntu.org/universal/playlists/kntulive.asx
>
>Put on the jazz station, grab a set of harps (better take a full 
>set, since everythings not in E, A or G -- lots of "horn keys": Bb, 
>Eb, Ab), and just play along.  Then go find yourself an open-minded 
>jazz band that will let you sit in.
>
>-tim
>
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