Re: [Harp-L] Re : Guitar as a way to the harp

[Richard Hammersley <rhhammersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Music Schools require students of melody instruments to study piano/  
keyboards or guitar also, as learning harmonic principles is extremely  
difficult on monophonic instruments. Harmonica has harmonic  
possibilities, but you cannot see what you are doing. I was rubbish on  
the harp until I learned the guitar. It is also very difficult to work  
out song arrangements on harmonica alone (as opposed to simply copying  
the harp or other melody line) I am saying this as a lazy,  
autodiadatic amateur.
Richard
On 8 Jun 2008, at 03:03, Hurricane Ramón wrote:

> Phil sez :
>
> Excerpt .
>
> Adam Gussow woodsheds Ray Charles "Hallelujah I Love Her So" on the  
> guitar to get the right chords so he can work it out on harp. (And  
> if you play guitar , you get the fretboard shapes free!)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwztD2VuzSI
>
>
> Phil Lloyd
>
> =================================================================
>
>
> Hurricane sez :
>
>
> The demonstration Adam Gussow did on this song was outstanding .
>
> The guitar ( and keyboard too ) is an excellent vehicle to help a  
> harp player nail down an arrangement ( note I said { arrangement }  
> and not song ) to make it solid in their mind and then take it to  
> the limits or one's ability and creative imagination .
>
>
> Harp players need to understand that learning an other instrument is  
> key to expanding a persons proficiency . It's not set in stone mind  
> you ,  sure you don't have to learn an other instrument to really be  
> good on just one instrument .
>
>
> It's kind of like this joke :
>
> Question :
>
> What do you call a person who speaks 3 or more languages ?
>
> Answer :
>
> Tri or multilingual .
>
> Question :
>
> What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages ?
>
> Answer :
>
> Bilingual
>
> Question :
>
> What do you call a person who speaks one language ?
>
> Answer :
>
> An American
>
> the above mentioned joke is not meant to bash or ridicule anyone at  
> all . It is meant to stir and provoke one to rethink their learning  
> strategy and only that .
>
> I began on a diatonic Marine Band in 1954 at age four . I did not  
> stop there and began the rudiments of acoustic guitar ( only to have  
> to quit later on in 1962 -- then restart it all over again in 1998  
> after a little miracle ) in 1956 . Trumpet in 1958 . Along the years  
> I learned to play a little on the drums and in 1993 began to learn  
> keyboard .
>
> I have a nice flute and clarinet here at home I want to some day  
> try  my hand ( and lips / lungs )  at too .
>
> By seeing how it's played chordially and hearing it's rhythmic  
> structure you can't help but fall into a song in my book .
>
> But their are some unfortunates who can't carry a tune even if it  
> was super glued to them .
>
>
> Sincerely :
>
> Hurricane Ramon
>
> Aka :
>
> Party_Man1@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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Richard Hammersley
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