Re: [Harp-L] blowing rags

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

 short answer - I'm assuming from your description that these rags are actually iii, vi, ii, V, I, so the underlying tonality would have a MAJOR 7, not minor 7th (as in blues or 2nd position), so concentrate on positions or note choices that either include the MAJ 7th or avoid the 7th altogether.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Burton <aussierwb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 1:26 pm
Subject: [Harp-L] blowing rags











For  the record...I'm dealing with the same issues....although I have played in 
second and sometimes even third positions...I find myself with a decided lack of 
imagination....in my case...lack of talent I guess.  The same old riffs just 
keep coming.

 

Ron Burton 
 
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> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:06:40 +0000
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> Hi group!
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> I've recently been playing a regular gig at a barbeque joint here in Chicago 
and I'm blowing harp with a great fingerpicker(John Hasbrouck) who plays a lot 
of ragtime pieces(III-VI-II-V-I changes). I'm stuck in a first-position rut 
where I'm mostly on the upper register using a lot of blow bends. It works but 
everybody ,including myself, is sick of the same old riffs I'm spitting out. 
This is new territory for me and I would appreciate any tips(positions, 
techniques, attitudes, etc) to improve my ragtime soloing. I think I recall in 
my travels somebody saying that 12th/1st flat position is good for this. I know 
on Levy's instructional video he dissected Sweet Georgia Brown and explained 
some stuff, but I don't have the tape anymore. Any help will be appreciated. 
Thanks!
> 
> cheers,
> Jim Conway
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