Re: [Harp-L] Time Required to Study the Musical Instrument

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

Having played around with the piano off and on over the past 50 years, I would say that piano is relatively easy to play. You can actually see your fingers and tell -- before you hear -- you are playing the wrong note. Play a chord in the left hand and run melody notes from a fake book in the right -- presto. With the harmonica, play the melody notes on a chrome and holes 4-7 on a blues harp -- skip the bass chord -- and run melody notes from a fake book -- presto. If you touch type, all the easier!


Cowboy chords on the guitar are easy. Put a barr down and you can move those cowboy chords all over the neck for an easy way to play rhythm guitar. To do the same thing on harmonica, you would need a box of harmonicas!


keep on harpin


   




-----Original Message-----
From: Harmonicology [Neil Ashby] <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: jon <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 12:01 pm
Subject: [Harp-L] Time Required to Study the Musical Instrument


(Jon Kip:)

I believe that the keyboards are much faster to learn than the other instruments 
or the harmonica.

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at 
the right time and the instrument plays itself" [Johann Sebastian Bach].
 
/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025/ ")