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Minor Details with XXL Blues(my band, we live in Portugal)

Posted Sun, 05/22/2011 - 07:42 by Luis Marques
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I everyone, we were preparing a new song and I have the idea to use the minor details study to fit thought the music.
In the early chorus as a back support and finally using the last chorus as solo part.
Tell me your opinions...
Luis

Good morning everyone!

Posted Sat, 04/23/2011 - 00:30 by claudio aguilar
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...well i thought : if everyone (or most of people) is using backing tracks .. why not using my own harp as a backing track? so i ended up recording my harp a couple of times ...... and this is what it came out of it... I challenged my self to improvise without making any previous arrangement in a casual way.......

Let Me Help You

Posted Sun, 04/17/2011 - 02:10 by laurentHarp
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Based on the Gm backing track provided by David in his Minor Playing Lesson, an impro clearly inspired by the Greatissime song by Sonny Boy Williamson II.
I think it has to be improved on the IV chord, but I wanted to share it with the great bluesharmonica.com community.

Comments are more than welcome!

Laurent

Trust My Blues

Posted Mon, 04/11/2011 - 13:32 by jodanchudan
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Trying some first position stuff here - I got inspired by SBWII's Trust My Baby. I was really after the giant wah sound he gets, the slow bends and the extreme dynamics, so ... er, the song structure got totally lost and I ended up playing fairly cliched stuff. Noodling. Oh well, one step at a time.

Pacing Blues

Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 16:04 by jodanchudan
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Trying out some first position stuff - but haven't really figured out the high end yet so I stayed away from that. It's a pretty noisy recording I'm afraid - all that background clatter is my son playing around with lego (a sound I'm definitely starting to associate with the blues).

Imported Scotch

Posted Sun, 03/06/2011 - 09:26 by hank stefaniak
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Tried to get some sense of chorus forms and themes into each chorus. Backing track by djaznbluz from Harmonicaboogie.com.

Swaying Blues

Posted Fri, 02/25/2011 - 12:48 by jodanchudan
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Been trying to focus on dynamics and, after watching the improvising lessons, more repetition.

Raining outdoors

Posted Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:05 by Steven Troch
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This solo piece is played on an Ab harmonica (2nd pos). I rarely play it but it comes in handy when our guitar player breaks a string or some other technical problem occurs. I'm not a good storyteller or joker so I just take my harp and play this song to avoid an awkward silence during gigs.

I tried to play in a Sonny Boy II spirit ("No nights by Myself" feel) but when I listened to it afterwards I noticed I didn't quite succeed.

Hope y'all enjoy it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stuck Blues

Posted Sun, 02/13/2011 - 09:19 by jodanchudan
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The intention here was to play a head, then do a chorus using octaves (well, 'splits' anyway - can't manage octaves yet), then shift to the bottom end of the harp and finally to return to the head, but I messed up the guitar playing (as usual!) and played an extra bar in at the start of the 4th chorus. I didn't realise until I tried to play the harp part, so I just faded out instead. The title refers to being stuck in because it's raining, not to any problem with the harp's slide or anything like that!

You gotta move

Posted Fri, 02/11/2011 - 13:36 by tomsnow
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This is a tribute to the great Mississippi Fred Mc Dowell (You gotta move/Amazing Grace). I'm not a singer so I decide to blow harp rather than sing. I just recorded some backing vocals for the rythm base. All the best from france.
Tom