Hey Guys n Gals, You’ve most likely just seen that I’ve recently uploaded a blog post called “Improvising With Rhythm“, which expands on the concepts I teach in Step 13 of my Step-by-Step course. My question is… Who’s up for having a go at recording their own version either on video or audio and posting it here? I’d love to hear em, and I know everyone else would too! 🎶

Thanks Rooftop Cat. I try to use the top end just to mix it up a bit. It’s all coming together slowly. Ive also started listening to different music styles since picking up the harmonica which is great as I like music where ever I am. Nice sounds Andy, I found myself tapping my foot to the rhythm, which has to be good..Well done…

Hey Andy that’s a cool jam man! I’m glad Mitch pointed that out about the twelve bar blues. That’s something that I am wanting to keep in mind as I’m improvising. I really enjoyed this, thanks again for posting it here!

Nice one, Jonathan and Andy! Jonathan - I liked your melodic ideas up and down the harp and all came back to your chug rhythm after each phrase. My favorite was when you let go a bit and ventured up to top of the harp and also the fat-toned resonance you got on your end chord. Great go! Andy - Great framework and you have a nice tone coming through for your single notes, especially the bottom end. Nice go! By the way, free backtracks on youtube: I've found MCCD Sessions to be great for some common harmonica Chicago-focused blues grooves and Quist good for that and modes exploration.

Hi Andy! I just edited your post and embedded your jam. It's awesome. That's a great example of how to combine learning the 12 bar blues, single notes, and rhythm. Once you're a little more confident I suggest expanding on it and including some notes other than the root notes too. Really good stuff! For future reference (and for everyone else too) when using SoundCloud first click on the 'share' button, and then choose to 'embed' the clip. You can then copy the embed code and paste that directly into the forums.

Thanks Shawn, I appreciate your comments, it really means a lot. It's great now I've broken the ice on the forum, I feel like doing more and will some day upload a video for a bit of fun, inspired by Rooftop Cat. Ive just watched step 14 and I'll be giving that a go over the next few days, loads of great stuff in there that will definitely help with improvisation. I'm having an awesome time playing, it's like being a kid again, I'm having so much fun. Hoping that's there are some others that will join in as well.. Hi Andy. I'm unable to play your jam, doesn't seem to have uploaded. It took me a few attempts to work it out so stick with it and I looking forward to hearing you..

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Mitch Grainger
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December 25, 2022 at 00:08

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#24325

Hey Guys n Gals,

You’ve most likely just seen that I’ve recently uploaded a blog post called “Improvising With Rhythm“, which expands on the concepts I teach in Step 13 of my Step-by-Step course.

My question is…

Who’s up for having a go at recording their own version either on video or audio and posting it here?

I’d love to hear em, and I know everyone else would too! 🎶

Freddie
Participant

December 27, 2022 at 06:32

Post count: 606

#24328

Thanks Mitch…This was some good inspiration!

Here’s my jam from this morning
https://app.box.com/s/djtftyo24r09xfx1sol9fb2kr74ju9y1

Mitch Grainger
Keymaster

December 27, 2022 at 21:10

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#24331

Hey Shawn, Thanks, that sounds great! Short and very sweet!

Who’s up next?

You can upload to Youtube, SoundCloud or a file-hosting platform like Shawn did!

🎵 😊

Freddie
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December 28, 2022 at 02:02

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#24335

Thanks Mitch!

Jonathan
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December 29, 2022 at 20:09

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#24337

Nice going Shawn, sounds really good..I’ll give it a go over the next few days

Freddie
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December 30, 2022 at 01:13

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#24338

Thanks Jonathan… I’ll be looking forward to it!

Rooftop Cat
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January 4, 2023 at 03:15

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#24358

Sounds awesome, Shawn and Mitch! I’ll post one here soon too. Happy New Year!

Freddie
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January 4, 2023 at 10:38

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#24360

Hey Ryan! Thanks so much buddy… And happy new year to you too man

Rooftop Cat
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January 8, 2023 at 05:30

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#24366

Got some time to myself so I was able to record today.
Some practice & experiments from today on a G harp:

And this one for shiggles:

Cheers

Freddie
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January 10, 2023 at 01:36

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#24367

First of all… “shiggles”… The laughter started when I saw the word”shiggles”😂. I pressed play and saw you spinning…looked at the length of the video, I then began chuckling and thought “he’s gonna spin for the entire video isn’t he?!… spoiler… I was right. Clown in parade…You nailed it😂😂😂
And now with all the serious business out of the way… I loved hearing your experimenting. Man you got some cool tones coming out of there. Especially in your diddlin. And then your sonny Terri like jam sounds awesome Ryan!
I think it’s one of my favorite aspects of being a part of this forum is getting to hear other people increasingly getting better on the harmonica. It inspires Me more than anything.
I mean I listened to these recordings and man you can tell you’ve been practicing… nice playing Ryan!

Rooftop Cat
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January 10, 2023 at 02:16

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maaan I don’t record nearly enough and once I get the chance to it usually turns out like the clown spinning video lol. I’m glad you enjoy my humor Shawn. The rest of the world raises at least one eyebrow lol. I was gonna cut the video short, but I felt if anyone felt the need to watch to the end, they deserved to see the comedy in me struggling to hit that overblow haha. Appreciate your compliments too brotha. Took me long enough to even want to record myself or like what I sounded like. And I’m completely there w/ you – it’s really cool to hear others improvement on this instrument we love, especially when there’s so many different avenues to touch on. Your recordings and others through this forum gave me the inspiration to do so. You make me happy that the inspiration now goes both ways. It just hadn’t clicked that I should participate sooner than later, regardless of what I care about what I sound like, to get the feedback I need and to start a groove train up in here! Excited to hear who’s next!

Jonathan
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January 10, 2023 at 10:08

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It’s great to hear others playing and having so much fun at the same time. Great also to see you playing around trying different things and to hear your thoughts on recording yourself and uploading it Rooftop Cat. I’m still messing around trying to make something half decent to upload but I really need to just go for it and not worry too much about my mistakes. Thanks for uploading, awesome bra…

Rooftop Cat
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January 10, 2023 at 10:32

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#24371

That’s what I’m talkin about, Jonathan. Thank you, bro.

Jonathan
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January 11, 2023 at 09:58

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#24373

here’s my effort. I’m not the most confident but reading the posts, watching and listening to the clips I thought what the hell. I had plenty of attempts with varying success(and failure ha ha) but in the end just did it.

Mitch Grainger
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January 11, 2023 at 14:51

Post count: 338

#24375

Awesome guys, good to see you’re having fun with it!

From rooftop going for his overblown overblow 😉 to Jonathan’s catchy rhythm (with a great ending by the way Jonathan) It shows that it’s not about sounding perfect first go. It’s about having a go!

And sharing your versions here really does help inspire others to do the same while pushing yourself just that little bit too, right into finding some cool stuff!

Alright… who’s up next? 🎶
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