thanks a lot for posting this video tinus.. would it be possible for you to place the harmonica tab for this exercise online.. if not the whole exercise.. then maybe just scale by scale. much grateful. regards, gaurav
@gauravcha The excercise is this: Play a major scale up to the ninth and back and then play a major 7th arpeggio up and down. I could write that out in tab, but that would not help. You need to understand it in order to play it. If you need info on where notes are on a harmonica then check out overblow.com.
Hi Tinus, Intonation is good, timbre very good, but articulation fair at best. Douglas Tate recognized true legato is impossible on a blow-draw instrument, thus, scales should be practiced mezzo-staccato. Douglas used a light, glottal 'cough' between all notes. Exceptions to mezzo-staccato in your vid are bent-to-straight and straight-to-bent transitions--still glissando. I'm an opportunist: lip lifts; glottal coughs; nose-leaks (bent-to-straight); and, if timbre is unaffected, tonguing. JT.
Exactly what I should be working at. My wife wants me to practise more. Now I'll just close the door behind me, start your video and pretend its me practising :)
Excellent exercice !!! I think your intonation is not so bad probalby your harp is tune pretty close to 440 that why could sound's edgy and playing alone is different than playing in a band where you could adjust the intonation to other instruments. Anyways that's cool stuff !!!
Greatly impressive! Very smooth overbends, clean intonation (sax players often don't has as good intonation). I play all 12 scales, but don't have even half of control you have, especially 1 hole overblow
Thanks for the suggestion Robert, but I don't think that that will improve my diatonic playing. Besides chromatics just don't feel right to me and I think I would rather be happy than in tune any day.
Are you overblowing or its just regular?Thanks for the video.
werneck2000 1 month ago
@werneck2000 Maybe you should checkout my series of videos on major scales.
TKoorn 1 month ago
@TKoorn I will. Thanks !
werneck2000 1 month ago
thank you for your answer. I will defineteley try
marcoferaldi 7 months ago
oh my god...
such a monster. impressive, really impressive.
just a question, is it normal as a beginner to feel pain on my mouth doing scales and exercises?
marcoferaldi 7 months ago
@marcoferaldi relaxation is key. If you play scales you have to work on doing them as relaxed as possible.
TKoorn 7 months ago
thanks a lot for posting this video tinus.. would it be possible for you to place the harmonica tab for this exercise online.. if not the whole exercise.. then maybe just scale by scale. much grateful. regards, gaurav
gauravcha 10 months ago
@gauravcha The excercise is this: Play a major scale up to the ninth and back and then play a major 7th arpeggio up and down. I could write that out in tab, but that would not help. You need to understand it in order to play it. If you need info on where notes are on a harmonica then check out overblow.com.
TKoorn 10 months ago
Impressive! If i could do that, I'd shelve my chromatic!
itswitzmoab 11 months ago
Very good and tunned! its really hard to do that!
marcofognog 1 year ago
impressive bro
flip3213 1 year ago
Hi Tinus, Intonation is good, timbre very good, but articulation fair at best. Douglas Tate recognized true legato is impossible on a blow-draw instrument, thus, scales should be practiced mezzo-staccato. Douglas used a light, glottal 'cough' between all notes. Exceptions to mezzo-staccato in your vid are bent-to-straight and straight-to-bent transitions--still glissando. I'm an opportunist: lip lifts; glottal coughs; nose-leaks (bent-to-straight); and, if timbre is unaffected, tonguing. JT.
ublokr 1 year ago
thank you for the intelligent insights into the scales of a basic harmonica. and a tasteful video too.
prettycarnations 1 year ago
Tinus serieus ......................... another level !!!!
i wish i could be your kind of happy
but im just starting blues on a diatonic
JAZZ on a diatonic harp F... Brilliant!!!!
xraylax 1 year ago
Nice Tinus
Exactly what I should be working at. My wife wants me to practise more. Now I'll just close the door behind me, start your video and pretend its me practising :)
prahssiws 1 year ago
Excellent exercice !!! I think your intonation is not so bad probalby your harp is tune pretty close to 440 that why could sound's edgy and playing alone is different than playing in a band where you could adjust the intonation to other instruments. Anyways that's cool stuff !!!
Tidiable001 2 years ago
Jesus! Please, say that u are fake! :P
I've been trying to do this for one year...
Very Good. and hugs from Brazil
Oroneki 2 years ago
Wow.. Thanks for showing me that this is humanly possible to do!..
valeskathomas 2 years ago
Greatly impressive! Very smooth overbends, clean intonation (sax players often don't has as good intonation). I play all 12 scales, but don't have even half of control you have, especially 1 hole overblow
etaborya 2 years ago
The intonation is horrible! Get a chromatic harmonica.
bach484 2 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion Robert, but I don't think that that will improve my diatonic playing. Besides chromatics just don't feel right to me and I think I would rather be happy than in tune any day.
TKoorn 2 years ago