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Everything Harmonica / How to Play the Harmonica / Re: Take The Long Way Home
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on: July 13, 2012, 09:03:52 PM
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Ok, I just played it with the actual recording. the song is in C, an F harp crossharp, 2nd position is the thing. I used a guitar to figure what key the song was in, and grabbed an F since it just sounded like crossharp 2nd position playing. Bingo.
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Everything Harmonica / The Harmonica / Re: seydel session steel harps
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on: July 10, 2012, 12:12:27 PM
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I am a rather new harp player. I have learned to "pucker" and can play any song that I am familiar with the tune. At this stage, I am attempting to learn how to "tong block" and I found it to be very difficult for me. I have several different harps, and I believe the Session Steel is the best harp for me to tong block. Actually, I do pretty good with the Session steel, and for that reason it has become my favorite. I also have a Suzuki F-20 Fabulous harp, and I find it my second best harp to "tong block".
Dude! You have a Suzuki Fabulous? How nice is that? I like the Promaster and i guess that is a really nice version of that? I'm guessing that you have played music your whole life like me if you are playing songs that you know easily in a relatively short period of time. I'm at about that stage myself, really loving it after about 6 months.
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Everything Harmonica / Harmonica Entertainment and General Discussion / Re: 99 Problems...
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on: July 06, 2012, 11:13:29 PM
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Funny, the guy that asked for the info has no comment, and a completely new guy who started playing today has been assigned the song!  It's all good, since you just started, I'll try and give you basic idea of what to do with this song. I'm no harp teacher and I haven't been playing that long myself but I have been playing music a long time so I'll do what i can for you. The harp you have {A} has several chords on it actually, at least parts of a bunch of them. The one the song grooves on is E and that note is on the 2 hole when you DRAW it {inhale, suck....you get the picture}, so you got your E chord right there when you draw on holes 123. So, basically mess around with that some to start. Look at a few things about how to get single hole stuff going for a little riff maybe, but anyway, the other chords when they do the slowdown thing are D {5,6 draw} and then A which is blowing pretty much any group of holes on the harp but you might as well just do 4-5-6 since you are right there for the D chord. BTW, don't hit the 4 or 7 holes when you draw the 5-6 for the D cuz it will sound like s@#t, it's the wrong note. try to just hit those two holes. if you tilt the back of the harp up a bit but have it pretty deep in your lips with a slight pucker you should be able to hit two notes. Good luck!
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Everything Harmonica / The Harmonica / Re: seydel session steel harps
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on: July 06, 2012, 11:25:32 AM
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I have two Session Steel Seydels, both relatively new so hard to say....I am also not a crazy hard blower, BUT I do on occasion play un-amplified with a bunch of people, in which case there is no choice but to blow harder to get some volume. So of course you may have to wait a year or more for me to say whether they are holding up well.
I will say that the C has pretty comparable volume/projection to a Special 20. The action, that's a tough question because I got the C harp set up for overblows/draws by Greg at 16:29 so it was not "out of the box" like my Sp20s. The other Session Steel I have is a Low C so that just plays different since the reeds are bigger. I do think it plays well and once I played with the low reeds a bit I get all the bottom bends. Fun thing about low harps is the blow bends up high are really easy and sound sweet.
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Everything Harmonica / The Harmonica / Re: Good harp low maint.
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on: July 03, 2012, 01:56:02 PM
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I think Suzuki Bluesmaster and the Seydel Blues Session are good harps, and pretty comparable to a Special 20. Tose two are perhaps a bit easier to bend "out of the box". About the same price too. I have all three and like them pretty much equally, they are so close in quality. The main difference is design and the feel that causes. Compared to Sp.20, the Suzuki is a little skinnier top to bottom and maybe a touch shorter front to back, it's a touch brighter in tone I think. The Seydel is about the same front to back but a touch fatter top to bottom.
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Everything Harmonica / Introduce Yourself / Greetings from NYC
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on: June 29, 2012, 10:39:25 PM
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Hi, pretty new to harp but have been playing music my whole life, guitar, bass, and singing. Been playing harp six months, kinda obsessed, practicing maniacally. I love it. Have harps in pretty much all the keys I need and three low octave ones I love, especially the Low F since regular F harp is just too high for my tastes, sounds like the kettle is boiling, or feedback from the PA....a low F is sweet and I can use it for three common minor keys, Gm, Am, and Dm. I'm lately often playing harps 1 and 1/2 step down in minor key. I don't know what position this is called {?} but it works nicely. The root note is the whole step draw bend on 3 hole and straight 6 draw. For F or it puts you in D minor. On a G harp it's E minor. While I have played blues off and on in my life and do like it, I'm far more interested right now in learning/playing lots of other stuff on harp, horn solos from jazz standards, vocal melodies from all kinds of songs, keyboard parts from stuff. Oh yeah, since I started and didn't know what harp i would like best, my collection is 2 Suzuki Promasters, 1 Manji, 1 Bluesmaster, 1 Harpmaster, 2 Folkmasters, 4 Special 20s, 2 Lee Oskars, 1 Seydel Session steel.... and I have my first custom harp on the way from 16:13 Custom Harmonicas, another Session Steel. What a mash-up eh? Yeah, it's a little weird jumping between some of the harps because the feel can be quite different, but on the other hand it's kinda fun and I'm starting to know how each one responds. Oddly, I don't have a single wood combed harp yet. I know the Blues players swear by them, but I didn't try them at first and now I seem to like the plastic and aluminum combs. Anyway,
Hi Harp People!
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