Solo Harmonica study 2
Hello David !
I was wondering whether this kind of solo playing is generally adapted to play with just another acoustic guitar doing a basic two notes chords accompaniment.
We've tried with example 1.5 and it works really great.
I'm wondering what I'm going to try next and I was looking at the baseline examples.
In example 2.2 on the IV chord we're playing a draw chord a few times which if I'm correct contains the following notes in relation to the root note : maj7, 6th, 4th and 2nd. Isn't it a lot of notes that aren't in the actual chord, which might not work ? I would try and see for myself and I probably will but I haven't learned it yet so I wanted to have your thoughts before I get into it.
Probably example 2.1 is more adapted. But I would very much appreciate if you could give me some general guidelines about it... Thank you !
P.S. (edit) Same happens on the I chord we sometimes play a blow chord which contains the 6th and the 4th but that I guess is more likely to work. In fact it happens with example 1.5 and it doesn't seem to be a problem at all.
Hello miggyb00gie. Yes, though these examples are designed to played solo (what you can think of as self-accompanied harmonica playing), it often works well when playing with sparse accompaniment. The chords you're speaking of are played with the Pull technique (taught in Tongue Blocking Study 3), and are much more rhythmic than harmonic. For this reason, they don't clash with any chord.