Re: The great divide...

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Ficara wrote:

> 
> The licks Tim describes are good for learning note positions up there, 
> but I don't find practicing licks any more interesting than doing 
> exercises. I got comfortable with the top end of the harp by learning 
> fiddle tunes. Playing those fast melodies (mostly in first position on 
> the top end of a low D or A or G harp) got me moving around the top as 
> comfortably as I do on the bottom. Basically, I spent a year learning 
> tunes out of Steve Kaufman's Bluegrass Workout (Homespun Tapes).
> 
> Ken
> 
>>>   I have been playing the upper octave of my harp quite a bit
>>> now... I am still wondering what's the best way to overcome "the
>>> great divide" between holes 6, 7 and 8. Any tips, exercices ?
>>
>>
>> I detest "exercises", though they would probably improve my playing.
>> I learned to move from the lower end of the harp (hole 6 and below)
>> to the upper end and back by finding a couple of licks that worked
>> and using those to transition up and down.
> 
> 
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> 
> Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
> 
> -- Igor Stravinsky
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Louis Armstrong recorded a tune called "Laughing Louis" in the thirties. 
  In one of the breaks he played a beautiful lick that Armstrong 
collectors revere.  Supposedly when someone asked him about it he said 
it was from an exercise he played when he was a kid.

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