Re: [Harp-L] the melodious gg speaks on OBs

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps you'd like to expand further Dear Gypsy..........if that's possible.
RD

>>> "groovy gypsy" <groovygypsy@xxxxxxxxx> 07/07/08 10:15 PM >>>
Dear Rick Dempster,

There is no Chris here so do not refer to me or him or us as such or who.
Secondly, we have many students to which we teach such methods from the
beginning. Take it under advisement that you're brain is most likely locked
into thinking it is not possible. You've teaching for 30 years? Then you
must be fabulous at teaching and playing and thus, correct. We here at gg,
LLC have only been in business for 19 years and teaching for 11. Maybe our
students will suddenly not be able to OB in the first five minutes (after
learning to bend) once we hit the 30 year mark. We will have to discuss it
with R&D and the Marketing Group.

You sir, are creating discouragement in young players, something that is the
hallmark of a poor player and teacher. Speaking of Chris, have you ever
considered the whys and hows of why and how he's developed his iconoclastic
vibrations of delight? It's because he believes it's possible to develope a
uniquely original voice in an environment where there are people who have
played for 30 odd years and can't carry a tune.


Thank you and toodles,

gg.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> "OBs are no more or less difficult to play than
> anything else "
> Chris, I believe this is  demonstrably untrue, and therefore misleading.
> You may be speaking of your own experience perhaps, but the majority of
> players (I've been teaching people for nearly thirty years) will find the
> overbends difficult to control and difficult to use effectively, even ift
> they do learn quickly to produce a passable  squawk in the right general
> tonal direction.  In fact it's probably less painful for everybody if most
> people let them alone, unless they can show good reason why they need them.
> Most of what I've heard of this technique does not demonstrate such a need,
> and a great deal of it is gawd-awful (mine included no doubt)
> RD
>
> >>> "groovy gypsy" <groovygypsy@xxxxxxxxx> 06/07/08 6:54 AM >>>
> The Senior David of Payne writes:
> "On the overblows, just learn it when you feel like it, then work them
> in to what you are playing"
>
> We in gg's head and spirit feel this is bad advice. As the gypsies
> from the Andromeda Galaxy once elucidated to us, it's it best to start
> OBs and all other techniques universally.
> Strive to play what is inside your illuminant being rather than what
> you hear on records unless of course you want to sound like a record.
> OBs are no more or less difficult to play than
> anything else so why avoid them.  More advice from the tethered one on
> the vulcan planet Maruvia indicates that one should start out treating
> the harmonica as if it is a "real" instrument
> now. Learn to Clefs and Staves, rests, double stops and the like now
> rather than having to evolve through the system of suck blow on this
> arrow.
>
>
> This has been a message from the most lyrical and melodious one.
>
> Thank you,
>
> gg
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