Month 2

Done a fair bit of harmonicing this month.

Octaves sounding a little better (maybe??). Certainly I'm better/ quicker (although not in this example) at finding them.

New challenge: Jason Ricci's slow blues (Root notes 2). I can't get the hand effects when I play into the mic.

Here it is so far.

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