RE: [Harp-L] Diatonic v Chromatic

["Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this Slim. You are of course quite right, but I don't know
whether I am going to live long enough to follow this council of perfection.
Beannachtai
Aongus

-----Original Message-----
From: Slim Heilpern [mailto:slim@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 September 2013 15:35
To: Leonardo K. Shikida
Cc: Aongus MacCana; Harp-L List
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Diatonic v Chromatic

Hi Leo -

I wouldn't call it "transposing" to be able to play in all keys on one
instrument, it's just knowing your instrument well. Transposing is to change
the key of the music your playing, there's a distinction there...

There are many reasons why one would want to have multiple-keyed chroms,
especially if you are playing chords. But there are also many reasons to
learn how to play in every key on one axe, not the least of which is that
complex music often changes keys on a phrase by phrase basis, and to
improvise over that kind of movement requires multi-key dexterity. 

There is a reason that the top jazz chrom players play everything on a
single keyed chromatic. And it does take practice, but the result is very
rewarding.

- Slim.

www.SlideManSlim.com

On Sep 2, 2013, at 4:51 AM, Leonardo K. Shikida wrote:

> That's why Mauricio Einhorn has a 12 chromatic set :-) why transpose?
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> best regards
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> Leo
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> Leo
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