I listened to the clip on Youtube, and I have to agree that there's
something missing in this performance, starting with intonation and
rhythm, and including a sense of overall structure in the solo (as
opposed to a lot of lines string together). Points for trying, but
I've heard Jason Rosenblatt play MUCH better than this.
Since I attended the Howard Levy seminar that Zvi Aranoff sponsored
in NYC last March, I've been working more on playing fast and
playing chromatically on the diatonic. Either is pretty tough, but
playing chromatically over changes is tougher than playing fast
(which explains why John Popper idolizes Howard Levy, and not the
other way around).
Just stopping all that motion every once in a while to let a big
note startle everyone with its beauty does a lot to make an
otherwise fast solo even more powerful. What human senses respond
to most is change.
Regards, Richard Hunter
latest mp3s and harmonica blog at http://myspace.com/richardhunterharp
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