Re: Chicks, Looping, and Harmonica (was Why...?)

[chaz worm <chaz@earthwormandfire.com>]

Harmonica to me is another "sound source". As sub-par to mediocre i am at my current chosen instrument ('clawhammer banjo' but I've been informed it isn't) I'm worse at harmonica. I will often "try" to use the harmonica to do the synth line of the new wave song I'm doing. 

On my YouTube page there is an example of me trying to do that on a Sparks song (Angst In My Pants). Why that song is my most viewed song on YouTube is a mystery to me. It was done right after I started playing banjo and harmonica. I can more readily do it now but that clips lives on in infamy. Haunting me really.  

Chaz Worm - singer, bass, banjo

Earth, Worm & Fire

http://myspace.com/earthwormandfire

http://YouTube.com/ChazWorm

On Oct 23, 2011, at 2:25 PM, "Clayton Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net> wrote:

Hi Mark and all,

Of course it worked! I can stop making noise and start talking to them while my performance continues . . .

But seriously, since we are all ‘fessing up (again—one wonders how many times this thread has come up on LD), I might as well confess why I find looping so attractive.

Making music is like painting the silence with sound—so loopers enable you to accumulate those brush strokes.

I play plectrum guitar (as opposed to fingerstyle—hi Ted) and so find it harder to play contrapuntally—although I am heavily into harmonica now, that helps.

I have tried looping harmonica, but just putting guitar thru the signal processors in addition to the free reed sounds seems to be enough noise—and of course, chicks dig harmonica!

I am retuning harps, and have started really digging into the tuning I used on my track for the 20^th Anniversary clip collection—I think it’s on Kris’ website.

It’s a IV6 blow/V6 draw tuning—so no tonic chord. It’s fully chromatic with draw bends, only one note needs be produced with the extended technique known as overblowing.

Brendan Power claims to have used it first on a recording, I think he calls it Power Chromatic. But it is a 10 hole diatonic tuning.

I just retuned a Steve Baker Special 14 hole to this tuning in C, and am reeeally happy with how it turned out. I have also built chromatics with this tuning, but I don’t like it as well as bebop tuned chrom.

Chaz, nice to see another harp player on these pages—some great players are starting to show up.

I am also glad you like the RC-20, I want to hear when people like the tools they have chosen.

I am on tenterhooks waiting for the next level of pedal loopers, the LP-2 by Bob Amstadt. Even as we speak, he is assembling my unit in his garage.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hamburg [mailto:mark@grubmah.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:10 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Why...?

 

On Oct 22, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Clayton Gary Lehmann wrote:

 

> We just did this six weeks ago . . .

> I was trying to get chicks-

 

Did it work?

 

Mark