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Switching Harps

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Fri, 02/13/2015 - 10:14
Taylor Ward
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I know you're working on a lot of other lessons right now but I'd love to see a short "Switching Harps mid song" Video Lesson.  It seems trivial but it would be great to see visual tips on the actual process of how to quickly swap harps quickly (diatonic to diatonic, chromatic to diatonic) mid song.  

-Taylor

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Fri, 02/13/2015 - 10:18
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David Barrett
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Watch the Peter "Madcat" Ruth video, he has a good system. Other than that, I don't have anything to say about it... just do it as fast as you can without tossing your harps everywhere.

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Fri, 02/13/2015 - 12:56
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Taylor Ward
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haha. ok

haha. ok

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Fri, 02/27/2015 - 09:37
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marcos
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Here is a quick lesson.

Norton Buffalo's classic. Solo starts at 1:36. He looks a little frantic, but he keeps up.

http://youtu.be/HPzcZNgVfpA

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Sat, 02/28/2015 - 13:26
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Taylor Ward
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Haha. That's cool man.

Haha. That's cool man.  Thanks for sharing!

 

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