Re: [Harp-L] Re: 4th position & a bit about 10th

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

Cheers Larry
The main thing about 10th is you need to overblow the root (4ob) and the 5th 
(6ob), if you can get it In a Sentimental Mood can be a killer harp tune, 
great for generating what I call the 'pin-drop moments', you know when 
everything goes quiet, somebody talks, somebody else says shush! and you get 
a great big warm feeling inside.  You could swap harps for the bridge I 
guess but I could never get the hang of juggling myself.

I totally agree with the Iceman's comment
"It may help to consider thinking not so much that the tonic IS a bend, but 
rather that it is  a NOTE created through a bend technique."

In my view, we should always think notes - or intervals - and not bends or 
holes.  It's also really good to train your ear to recognise and be able to 
play specific intervals, there are ear training programmes about, I use 
Earmaster (although not enough I must confess) and there's an ear training 
facility in Band in a Box.  The Aebersold Dominant 7th Work Out is a very 
good practice tool for this sort of thing too, I find.

Bill



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Marks" <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: 4th position


> Thanks, Bill. I will try Autumn Leaves that way (I currently play it in 
> 2nd) and I will try some new stuff with 10th, where I am already 
> comfortable.
>
> I find 10th useful for Sousa marches. (I used to play them all the time on 
> a Trombone and I use them now occasionally for a joke - How can you play 
> blues on something called a Marine Band Harmonica?)
>
>  -LM
>
>
>  -LM