Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: questions about high keyed harps

[Gary Popenoe <gpopenoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know, there is a pattern language of western contemporary songs.  
It always seems to me that, if you learn one song, you've learned most  
of several others.

It is to the point where I, and I'm sure others, can play along wth  
tunes we have never heard and appear to the listener as if we know the  
song.

I was once was in Fiji and had an opportunity to jump in on a tune  
with some local players. I had never heard the song but felt I could  
handle it. I failed. Soon the guys were calling the changes to me.

Their standard progression changes/song structure are different  than  
western popular music. I couldn't anticipate where their songs were  
going to  go.


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On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:53 PM, EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Gary Popenoe writes (snipped):
>
> "Singing is the closest technique I have found to playing harmonica.
> The main difference is that my vocal chords are  out there just in
> front of my teeth."
>
> ...that's a great way to put it...and how I always think of playing  
> harmonica too. To me it's always about 'the song' (even if it's an  
> instrumental - in that case I simply think the melody), but always I  
> sing the song in my head while using the harmonica to convey it  
> instead of my voice, which means, of course..that I have to know the  
> song before I can play it well, but that's fine since I seem to know  
> hundreds upon hundreds of songs I hadn't  before realized I knew.  
> Must have just absorbed them by osmosis. :)
>
>
> Elizabeth
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