Wednesday, 31 March 2010

The Plan

seems reasonable enough. To practice specific harmonica techniques which I'm pretty useless at, record them and then to record again one month later. Hopefully, over a year, I'll be able to hear some improvement.

Things wot I wanna be able to do better:

1) Pitch the flattened 3rd more accurately (3 draw) in cross position.

2) Play faster!

3) Tongue block octaves easily.

4) Be able to play 3rd position.

5) Get a warmer sound (vibrato).

6) Incorporate some more licks into my playing. (Shellist, Gussow, Ricci ideally!)

7) Get those wide trills 4/5 draw to work quickly without missing notes.

So I'll attack the list in any order!


Octaves