Re: [Harp-L] OB-stuff

[Robert Paparozzi <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree JR...I absolutely LOVE these changes for Cross Harp and would have
no problem playing sweetly over these changes w/o OB's. But you have to be
fluent in Cross.

Best,
Rob Paparozzi


> 
> 
>> CHRIS:here is a lesson I was giving on a different kind of blues. You need
>> OBs to play this kind of blues in Cross harp.

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqwIK3FaX_s
>> 
>> EV, could you play harp cross over this and sound good? I can't.
>> 
> 
> Sonny Terry seemed to make a pretty good 40 year career doing it.
> There are a bunch of others alive today I could also name who can and
> do play in this style without using overblows and mostly using second
> position.  Not to mention people like Terry's contemporary Junior
> Webb.  You may not like their playing, but wouldn't that actually be
> the argument you were trying to make originally, that different
> genres require different sets of judgements.  Or maybe it's simpler--
> de gustibus non est disputandum.
> 
> 
> 
> JR Ross
> 


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