PRACTICE! The only way to improve the way you hear melodies and breaks or speed up the process is to practice listening to melodies/breaks and learning them....
Cara, I was talking to a banjo player the other night after a jam session, and was reminded again of something that you had posted awhile back. When we are...
Stanley Yoder Sr
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Jun 3, 2004 11:06 am
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The fiddle tunes that I've learned so far, I started by learning to hum them first. Then, I either find tab or make up my own, have the song in my head and...
... getting the ... lately' to ... sound very ... ....space....jumpin' Dave writes: I have this problem sometimes,interchanging different tunes with another. I...
It just takes time and practice. In nearly all genres, there are tunes that seem to sound alike. It takes time to find the little nuances that separate the...
Well, it seems pretty quiet again here. I guess everyone is busy gigging and decided blue grass and old timey music isn't for the average harmonica player and...
Hey Dave, I was wonderin' the same thing! Charles here, originally from N.C. now livin' in FL. I have been giggin' an awful lot lateley but have been checking...
... now livin' in FL. ... to see whats going on. ... then Alt-country tonight. Fortunatly Bluegrass the rest of the weekend. ... Its a Seydadel? Green, Kinda...
Hi, Dave/Charles: Glad to see you are keeping busy. Charles and I have done a little communicating off-list, so I know we are busy. I am glad to see you have...
I will be at Camp Bluegrass (www.campbluegrass.com) again this year -- with my harmonicas and instruction stuff. The Camp is almost full except for few slots,...
... ....space....Jumpin' Dave replies: Indeed you are very busy. Living in a much larger town offers much more activities. I think the bill will get busier...
Hi All, I just added a bunch of clearance items to our clearance page. They are mostly Hering harmonicas including some chromatics. The keys are limited to...
Just grabbed my Mike Stevens cd again to try some more of that craziness. Overblows/bends are one thing I have yet to come close to doing let alone playing....
Can't do it at all... I doubt if I would ever be able to get a decent tone with it. I would like to begin experimenting with the chromatic one of these days....
I'm thinking about going to SPAH this year. My step-sister lives in St. Louis and I just might be able to work out the transportation. I wonder if there will...
Hi Tim, I'll be conducting a seminar on "Gospel Harmonica Revisited", plus I will be conducting "Bluegrass Tips for the Harmonica" at SPAH this year. Next year...
Well, bought Mike Stevens' book and CD a few months ago, and I must say that I don't believe I have enough God-given talent to do all those overblows and...
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Jun 21, 2004 3:06 am
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Starting tongight it gets pretty crazy out here in Weiser, Idaho. It's National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and the Idaho Bluegrass Festival and concert series. ...
These days I use overblows all the time. Two years ago I was convinced they were of little or no value. Funny how a little practice changes one's opinion... ...
I use bends periodically when I play (jam or gig); but I seldom use them on fast tempo tunes. My bends just aren't fast enough at the high speeds at which a...
A chromatic is a very quick and reliable way to get those in-between notes at tempo without the inaccuracies that occur during bending. I use those as well....
Dennis, I'm sure this topic has been covered before and I know there are untold numbers of approaches to the question I'm about to ask... what was the method...
Hey Dave, Nice to hear from you as well. I miss N.C. a lot sometimes. The gigs went well this past weekend. I played at 6:30 at the bandshell in Daytona Beach...
Hi Jim, It's really not much different from doing a blow bend on 7 8 and 9 holes, you are just on 4 5 and 6... In workshops I use the sounds "we" and "you" for...
Charles, that new cd of Vassar's, is it the "Livin With the Blues"? http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_0073.shtml I see it comes out in August....
Thanks, Dennis. I'll try it out. I've country tuned a few harps to get that semi-tone where I need it, but I would really like to get it with an overblow, if...
... (snip) ....space....Jumpin' Dave writes: Yeah, nothing beats the Blue Ridge, unless you're up in Northern Calif. I keep my ears wide open for sure. Vasser...
...............just wondering?....did U get paid for all those gigs?......or is it all for funzies?......if U do.......just wondering how much ...
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Jun 21, 2004 10:04 pm
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"These days I use overblows all the time. Two years ago I was ... Hey Dennis, Would that be called a paradigm switch? I too have just started using the over...
