Re: [Harp-L] Upper register

[Robert Ross <robertaross@xxxxxxxxx>]

LOL...me too!

Those three notes, just to be clear, were NOT feedback. They were
just those upper register notes that I never heard played properly
before, at least not close up and in person. I always flet that those
notes were too screachy or something, but Billy showed me that they
could be played with a lot of tone and style. Billy is a master of
tone, and he makes those screachie (when I played them) notes sing
like an angel.

- Robert

--- Bob Laughlin <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> offlist:
> 
> I don't like hot pepper. It makes my hemmorhoids burn,,
> 
> BL
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Ross" <robertaross@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:37 PM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Upper register
> 
> 
> > I'be been playing on and off for 35 years (more off than on
> sometimes
> > I admit), and until this year never used the upper register. It's
> > different, hard to get used to and hard to fit into what I am
> used to
> > playing. Basically, looking back, I just didn't know how to do
> it.
> > Then I met personally one of the harp greats, Billy Burns. When I
> met
> > him he was asked to sit in for a song with a local group. He went
> up
> > to the vocal mic, which was set far too hot for him to actually
> use,
> > and he played just three notes. They were some of the most
> amazing
> > three notes I ever heard, and they were all in the upper
> register.
> > After that he backed off the mic so far you couldn't even hear
> him
> > because it was set up wrong. Afterwards I introduced myself and
> we
> > have since become great friends. I repaired a couple of his mics
> (got
> > to see what Rod Piazza actually does close up) and in exchange he
> > gave me a couple of rare tips (he doesn't talk much and isn't
> > interested in teaching). I love the few rare gems he shares my
> way
> > once in a great while - and take them very seriously. So he
> shared
> > with me how to start using that upper register. o now I am...not
> as
> > much as perhaps I could but I am still not totally confident up
> there
> > - but am getting there. It's HOT! Used [properly, it's like
> adding a
> > special spice, like a hot pepper or something, to a recipe - too
> much
> > is no good but none at all starts tasting a little bland. So the
> > truth is all this time I made excuses for not using the upper
> > register it was just that I didn't know how. Once you start
> getting
> > the hang of it, I suspect you'll find yourself using it more and
> more
> > (just not too much).
> >
> > - Robert
> >
> >
> >
>
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