Re: R: [Harp-L] Question for Rob P etc & A train

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

S'alright folks!  Came home from the pub last night in  the crappiest dark 
brown mood ever,  picked up my C harp and played the blues like a goddamn 
demon.  It's just a crisis of confidence that's all and my neighbours love 
me, honest!

Been working on A train this morning in 1st on a C diatonic, I think it's ok 
actually.  The tricky bit is trying to get the phrasing right on the G7s on 
bar 6 and just before the turnaround, what i've been doing though that seems 
to be helping is to play it as if i'm doing a solo downhome train blues, 
with my foot going and stuff and then properly with band in a box should be 
able to do it quicker as I get it.  mind you, A Train done a'la train blues 
could be wicked for a solo spot I reckon!

I think I had a bit of a blind spot on it because we did at college last 
year and I was trying to play it in unison with a sax player, it's maybe a 
bit less of a technical challenge on the sax and she was ripping along and i 
found it a bit hard to keep up, so i bottled out and played some guide tone 
type stuff underneath, lovely to solo on though!

Bill