General Discussion

Hello everybody, i´m having many problems when I try to mic my amp on the bandstand...

I did as David taught us, but I´m getting too much feedback. I´m not sure if I´m doing everything right. Sometimes, if I just turn the volume control I little bit, I get lots of feedback..

I set my 20 watts (small gig) on MAX, almost no gain, bass on 10 and treble around 2.

But what about the settings on the mixing table? should I let the controls "flat"? ou should also turn the bass up and treble down? We don´t have a sound engenieer, how do I know if I´m playing too loud?? continue reading...

I have purchase quite a few Hal Leonard Chicago Blues Harmonica tab books. But for the life of me I cannot figure out the tab.

I am a advanced beginner and I want to hear the classics beging played and attempt to play some of it. Some follk say just listen to it and you don't need tabs.

Well later on, maybe for me. Does anybody know of a good source of maybe Little Walter's songs or anyone of that stature that I can find.

I love playing the instructional songs, but I am trying to get playing some Classics. Maybe when I go to heavean. ha...

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 I don't know if this is something which is a sensible question or not as I am not sure what the situation is so forgive me if I missed the obvious.

But as a beginner I have noticed several variations in the way tabs are written. Some draw notes have no symbol, some draw notes have an underline etc.  Some effects can only be reproduced with a special symbol like slaps, draw bends or shakes which can't be done on a keyboard. continue reading...

One of the biggest problems I have at the jam session is improvising good licks to fit with the songs. Sometimes the creativity well runs dry. I have learned many licks from songs that I have picked up, but still grasp at coming up with ideas. Does anybody have any recommended material (books, CDs, downloads, etc) on basic/common licks to help build a vocabulary? Preferably with audio so I can hear the beat, groove, phrasing, etc. Would like to build up my repertoire to have more to pull from at the jam session.

Thanks

Brian

Just discovered the Alan Lomax collection online. It contains interview with Sonny Boy 1, songs with Memphis Slim and Big Bill.

You can hear then talking and joking. Its very cool.

http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp

For anyone suffering from 2Drawitist, ie., the sound is terrible etc...because you're either a rookie or newbie to tongue-blocking or both, here are a couple of things that helped me.

1. Search the forum and you'll find several posts

2. Checkout the video in the FAQ section regarding continue reading...

wich is the right version, I found many on youtube and I don't know wich to chose to study :)

thanks

I was getting ready to do the "P" word...practice...when I noticed my A harp 5B/D had the same pitch. It was ok yesterday so I'm kind of befuddled as to what the problem is...The pitch is almost perfect to the point I thought only the blow reed was working. So I took off the cover plates and inspected the draw reed....looks ok...and is vibrating ok...I decided to file a bit off the end...hoping to raise the pitch...hmmm...whoa Nelly... continue reading...

I may have made a mistake in 'upgrading' to GarageBand 10.02. Anyone else tried it?? Opinions? I have to go into the instructions now to see where they've hidden all my favorurite stuff.

Also - when I recorded on the 'old' version of GarageBand, I suddenly had a very serious latency problem. The harp track was almost a full beat behind the backing track. Where do I go to fix this? This was on an old version of GB 6.05. Do I have to go back and download my previous version??  continue reading...

Thats gotta hurt.

I chipped a tooth playing harp seriously.

You have to be carefull.