Re: [Harp-L] Seminars at the 2014 SPAH Convention

[Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

I teach blues chromatic all 3 days at Joe Filiskos Teach In
Michael Rubin
michaelrubinharmonica.com


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am presenting a seminar on the Chord56, that's new.
> Suzuki has come up with a 14 hole slide instrument capable of playing
> chords (minor, major, diminished and augmented) in every key.
> That's different!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 30, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As a person who plays both diatonic and chromatic, I think I can explain
> this. With a chromatic, everything is cut and dried. The notes are there
> and there are very few shenanigans necessary to get those notes. Picture a
> 2 story apartment building. Notes will live across the hall upstairs (blow
> notes) and on your side of the hall (draw notes). Notes will also live in
> the apartments DOWNSTAIRS..i.e. slide in, across the hall (away from you),
> as blow notes, and on your side of the hall (nearest you) as draw notes.
> Sooo, once you know the addresses of these people (notes), you can deliver
> the mail. These people (notes) will ALWAYS be in the same places.
> >
> > With diatonic, there is a mysterious way of occupying the building. And
> while you DO have a similar arrangement , you also have EXTRA people
> (notes). These people don't show up on the address book. Why? because they
> are not there. Not officially that is. They are missing. Now, you can
> 'find' these missing people by: bending, over drawing, over blowing. Why
> must you do this. BeCAUSE these missing people are living in places where
> you have to MAKE them be discovered. They are (basically) living in stair
> wells, cleaning gear closets, fire extinguisher cubby holes, utility rooms,
> store rooms. In other words their apartments DON't exist. So you have to
> FIND them to deliver their mail.
> >
> > So, inasmuch as diatonics are a lot harder to master, it only goes to
> reason that more time has to be delegated to them in order to present a
> program in which said diatonics can be understood. And considering that
> everything changes each time you change harps, the burden of memory becomes
> too great to keep track of so many addresses.  The short story though is
> that over the years most everything chromatic related has been covered.
> Whereas diatonics still have some way to go.
> >
> > smo-joe
> >
> >> On Jun 30, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Music Cal wrote:
> >>
> >> Looks to be dominated by diatonic seminars.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:37 PM, MANFRED WEWERS <mwewers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> August and the convention will be here soon. To get a taste of who's
> going
> >>> to present what, check out the SPAH website:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.spah.org/content.asp?pl=75&sl=76&contentid=76
> >>>
> >>> There is still more room to add names to that list, so if you are
> going to
> >>> attend and want to share your particular harmonica passion, as a number
> >>> of regular posters to this site already have, let me know and I can
> help
> >>> make it happen. Please contact me off list.
> >>>
> >>> Manfred, the SPAH Seminar Coordinator in Toronto the Good.
> >
> >
>
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