Re: [Harp-L] Corner switches
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- From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
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The best way to understand it is to hear it first.
Check out Stevie Wonder, under the pseudonym "Eivets Rednow" (try spelling that backwards) playing "Alfie."
You'll hear the "Stevie pizz" (pizz - pronounced like "pitz" - being short for pizzicato, a violin term that means to pluck the violin string with the fingers instead of playing it with the bow).
This gives a very distinctive type of staccato (a note that has a distinct beginning attack and ending cutoff, usually played for as short a time as possible).
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Corner switches
To: "Robert Bonfiglio" <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:13 AM
What's "the Stevie pizz"? (I googled that phrase and got nothing.)
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just started to practice the Henry Cowell Harmonica Concerto for my
> Lincoln Center concert with the American Symphony Orchestra and I forgot
> that the corner switches in the last movement are wicked.
>
> Listen: http://www.robertbonfiglio.com/rb_Cowell_3rd.mp3
>
> I also forgot that I have to imitate the string playing pizzicato for a
> long passage and here I have to go to spit position and do staccato tonguing
> and even use the Stevie pizz. on some draw notes so it sounds like strings.
> Good thing I played so much diatonic in spit position.
>
> harmonically yours,
>
> Robert Bonfiglio
> http://www.robertbonfiglio.com
>
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