Re: [Harp-L] Re: Self Image

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

Michael,


You sure set your bar high...but you usually pole vault over it and get the gold medal.


Personally, I got to a point where instead of learning other's improv, I started to study improv itself in order to understand it in all its mysterious glory and create my own.


However, all paths lead, no matter which one is chosen, to the mountain top.



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Michael Rubin
<michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have spent my life working on my own sound.  Do not get me wrong, I have
> transcribed 100s of solos.
>
> This year, however, I do not care about developing my own sound.  All I care
> about is the process of learning.
>
> I have been transcribing the entire Gary Primich Tavellin' Mood and Mike
> Caldwell's Gospel Favorites CDs and playing them 100% tongue blocked as well
> as a mix of TB and puckering, as I am guessing both are doing.  It does not
> matter to me if I wind up a copycat.
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com