[Harp-L] Tcherepnin Harmonica Concerto

[Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So today I was going over the Tcherepnin Harmonica Concerto, very  
sophisticated and difficult chromatic writing.  So I realized after  
all this diatonic-chromatic banter that I am using a head hand shake I  
learned while playing diatonic with a mic.  Normally I try not to move  
my head since it's slower than the hands.  But this requires both  
hands and head for the speed and accuracy.  I also am using very fast  
chord tonguing on the Benjamin Harmonica Concerto that I learned  
playing diatonic in a Madcat style; the power I get on the opening  
draw note runs comes from all the diatonic blues I played because most  
is draw power.  I use a Sonnyboy or Sonny Terry hand vibrato on some  
very loud high notes in Concerti.  And on and on and on....

I just had never considered all the origins of all this diatonic  
technique that transfers before this discussion.

Harmonically yours,

Roberto
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com

P.S. - I don't play in any positions except missionary and my star  
sign is feces.  Chamber Huang was my teacher and he was in the  
discussion group of "chromatic players who played upside down 12 hole  
with the button on the right."