[Harp-L] Howard Levy- conceptualising notes

[B Boggs <ceudoazul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Some years ago, at a workshop, I asked Howard about a second instrument to play in addition to harmonica. 
He recommended piano for the benefit of learning how to "see" an arrangement of notes and to better grasp the patterns.
He remarked his early piano learning was a great boon for learning harmonica and helped him understand relationships of notes and scales.
At the time, I understood this to apply to diatonic harmonica, as well.
I am paraphrasing from memory.
 
Thanks,
 
Brian
 
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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:41:21 EDT
From: IcemanLE@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Conceptualising notes (was RE: Some questions
    for    chromatic play...
To: dixdr@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

 
Is this true? I remember him talking about first learning breakthrough  
concepts on his Ab harmonica and using that as a reference point (mind you, 
this  was 10 years ago at least - at Augusta Heritage).


In a message dated 4/16/2009 5:06:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dixdr@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Howard  Levy says the same thing - he imagines the notes in his head as 
laid out on a  piano keyboard. To make it a bit more manageable he also 
imagines first that  whatever harp he's playing is a C harp.