R: [Harp-L] Re: Tone Gear Grail blah blah blah

["Riccardo Grosso - RGBand" <riccardogrosso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Rick, you are more experienced of me, but I don't totally agree with
you. I think if a newbie want to sound like another one (and that's a little
goal on the beginning, but a sad and un-personal road with as time goes by)
he should get a rich, deep and strong acoustic tone and THEN buy all the
gear he need. It should works in the simplest manner in this way otherwise
it will happen to them what happened to a lot of harp player (and in someway
to me too): they'll spend a lot of money on keep on changing their gear. I
think it's better spend a lot of time on playing that harp and find a good
tone. 

Riccardo Grosso - RGBand

PS: Honestly I wanted to sound like Butterfield, Wilson, Walter, Wells,
Musselwhite and name whoever you want...now I'd like to get their knowledge
of the harmonica. HAHA.

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] Per conto
di Rick Davis
Inviato: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:10 PM
A: Ray Beltran
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx; icemanle@xxxxxxx
Oggetto: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Tone Gear Grail blah blah blah

It takes time to define that goal into workable terms.  New players can't
even hear what we do; The first time they pick up a harp they think "Where
are all those notes I heard that guy play?"

So, the goal usualy takes the form of aspiring to sound like another
player.  When I started 35 years ago I wanted to sound like Jimmy Fadden.
Within a couple of years he was replaced by Mark Wenner and then Paul
Butterfield.

After the player gains some profiency he can develop a goal that includes
steps and landmarks along the way.  But at first - for several years perhaps
- the best course is to just play.  If he wants to sound like Wenner or
Butter or Kim Wilson or Rick Estrin he should get a small tube amp and honk
on it all day long.  Even if at first he sounds like a "hack," which I think
is a very unkind way to describe a new player.



On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ray Beltran
<raybeltran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> So true...
>
> You have to have a goal in mind; you have to know what you're searching
> for.
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> That was my first step.
>
> Ray.
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