Re: [Harp-L] Finding the right key, in a noisy club

[46long Blake <46long@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I really can't hear, and don't know the key, and don't want to blow a
clam over the PA, I always put my front top teeth against the top
coverplate and play away from the mic. I can almost always hear/feel the
harp in my head, no matter how loud the stage is.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Robert Laughlin <
harmonicaman1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I remember, years ago, when I first thought,,"Why isn't there an app for
> the computer, like "google", that can find the name of a recording or even
> a live performance while in progress. Then someone invented it. Shazam.
>
> Amazing stuff, this pattern recognition software.
>
> Which brings up another question:
>
> Just thought I'd run this by the "l", in the name of streamlining the
> process of jumping in (by invitation, of course), with a live band.
>
> You know that moment, onstage, when you're not quite sure yet what key the
> band is playing in, or switching to, and there's just too much sound
> swamping your eardrums to easily, quickly grab the harp that fits. Even if
> someone shouts out the key to you, he may or may not have given you "the
> harp key", or perhaps just the actual key the band is playing in on that
> song, depending on whether he intended to do the interpolation for you, or
> just hand you the key sig they're actually playing in.
>
> It's at that moment that I often think,,there ought to be an "app" for
> this. I mean, there's already an app for your celphone that can pick out
> the name of the song, if it's melody is distinctive enough I would guess. I
> wonder if there's an app or a device that can "hear" the key being played,
> so as to avoid having to ask or fiddle with your harps while cupping your
> ear to hear it over the din.
>
> Eh?
>
> Robert the Inquisitive
>
>
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