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Diatonic harmonica skills on the chromatic.

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Thu, 08/21/2014 - 00:57
luckyharp
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Hi David,

This is more a consideration than a question:

I have been working 8 months on diatonic harmonica and only once I worked on chromatic study 1 "no sweat", that was several months ago.

I decided to spread the other three chromatic lessons in loa 6,7,8 and I was a bit scared about going back to the chromatic harmonica because I played a lot the diatonic and I thought not to have much skills on that one.....

Instead! ...With a big surprise I can play slaps and pulls quite easy and even that 2 draw that was so difficult to get to play nice now is working great, without efforts. It's like if my mouth and my breating now are more controlled and my skills are reflecting on the chromatic instrment. That's really encouraging :)

 

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Thu, 08/21/2014 - 07:44
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David Barrett
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Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

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