Re: [Harp-L] keepin' it simple

[Mike Fugazzi <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great comments from the list!  

I took a similar approach to Monsterharp when teaching
my lone student a couple of years ago.  His tastes in
music seem to be pretty broad and he stumbled upon
Blues Traveler.

So anyways, after several long lectures about how
playing fast and with a lot of notes ISN'T always the
best approach, I finally started to break some fast
playing down for him last night.

To piggyback on the post, in order to play fast with
some class, one must be able to play slow first!  I
used a similar approach there but with scale patterns
(not really breathing patterns) in the same way Clint
Hoover showed me some hip riffs. Playing fast to me,
is often like playing slow...however instead of
playing the space between the slow and more deliberate
phrases, you add a lot of ornamentation.  Then the key
is to not just run scales or always play fast.  Excuse
the off-topic rambling.

Mike

  

> --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Monsterharp"
> <Monsterharp@...> wrote:
> 
> When I teach people to improvise I start them on one
> note. I use Jamie
> Aebersold volume 42 Blues in all keys and 24 Majors
> and Minors.
>  I suggest they simply play a rythim with the one
> note as well as
> ading some
> long notes. Simply playing what feels good.Then I
> suggest they add
> another
> note. And so on. But it all starts with that one
> note. The joy on
> someones
> face realizing they are playing music along with
> somthing is verry cool.
> I'd like to take credit for this way of teaching but
> I can't, I had a sax
> teacher explain  this to me who had loads of
> students improvising from
> there
> begining as well as reading.
> To get back to the point at hand.
> When I was a younger man I thought I had to play all
> the licks in my
> arsenal
> in the first song. Someone tought me as you said
> keep it simple.
> If I'm still playing at 90,  I'll still welcome that
> feeling that you
> speak
> of..................................................
> Dane Paul
> 
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