Re: [Harp-L] Critical Harmonica Mistakes

[Chuck Linville <linvillec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool responses so far... The reason I asked is because I am just recently delving into overblows, and I found myself getting "cramped lips" LOL...  That used to happen to me when I first started trying to get single notes. A friend pointed out that I looked really tense, and he was right. So since then I have been trying to relax and breath properly, trying to do more sound with less air, and trying to develop a tone. So far not bad. I've made some progress. But there I was a couple days ago, back to doing those old mistakes because I was trying so hard to get those overblows. ...Made me wonder what else I might be doing and not even be aware of. -chuck


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Rogers <bullfrog9@xxxxxxx>
To: Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Chuck Linville <linvillec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:04:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Critical Harmonica Mistakes

Amen to that.

Bullfrog
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Leone" <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chuck Linville" <linvillec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Critical Harmonica Mistakes


>
> On Jun 4, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Chuck Linville wrote:
>
>> Hi All, Someone posted recently about the futility of practicing if you 
>> are doing the wrong things.
>
> Right, I saw that.
>
>> So I thought I would throw out the question; what are some critical 
>> mistakes that people are prone to make on the harmonica when 
>> practicing? -chuck
>
> It would probably be a chore to sit down and try to compile a definitive 
> list of mistakes. Probably the best solution would be to listen to and 
> watch someone
> play, and catch the mistakes as they happen. Mistakes can be very subtle 
> and cloaked. And that, in a nut shell, is why they occur. People aren't 
> aware of them.
>
> The two things that pop to my mind are: 1... It might be advantageous to 
> get a teacher. 2 ... Failing that. it would be nice to have a real 
> comprehensive lesson
> plan, done by real people who really know what they're talking about. Just 
> as Rubank, Belwyn, and others have done for 'established' instruments, and 
> go from
> book #1, to book #2, and 3, and so forth, the same should be done for 
> harmonica. And though we do have plans, they are disorganized and no 2 
> seem to be the
> same.
>
> With real plans, you don't immediately open the book and find a picture of 
> someone, there is no mention of any names. They're just all meat. As Eli 
> Wallach says
> in the movie 'The good, the bad, and the ugly', "If you have to shoot, 
> shoot, don't talk". Lesson plans should leave out all the BS and 
> concentrate on the subject
> at hand. This is what I see with plans from the major publishers.
>
> smo-joe
>
>
>