Thank you everyone for all inputs. I know I’m not the only one, but as the topic was not really discussed I was wondering if I wasn’t just crazy trying to play lo-fi hip hop on the harmonica (even if I would not stopped if everyone was telling me it is stupid ).
@scott4 I really like your approach about pickup songs that challenge your weaknesses. I do that to some extent too with @Luke lessons as I go back through all of them tongue blocking
@Corky_Music Thank you for sharing and for the advice. O love Love Filikso’s Dream! Truly impressive. I guess the difficulty for me is that I have been playing (harmonica and music) for just 2 years and since 4 months ago in the process of switching all my technique to tongue blocking. I am still trying to work on some basic technique. Point is I do not have a “style that is already me” to bring at the moment. I also like your point about “but always successful as an artistic endeavor”. I guess even if I’m not successful with that as an artistic endeavor and, as I was writing above, even if everyone would tell me I’m stupid, I think I would still do it if I have fun.
@Mugen a friend just sent me a link to this song, the last one I recorded with blues rap duo project before it broke up in 2019. Funny song. I’d totally forgotten about it. What genre is it?
Yes. Having fun! I vote for that! I had my string quartet play a piece that had about 20 different genres in it. As it turned out it all sounded like string quartet, music. LOL! No matter what you plan the harmonica it’s harmonica music.. So yes; “Having fun!” Let’s stick with that!
I think probably because I grew up listening to good harmonica playing in country music instead of the blues, this is why I believe the instrument has so much potential beyond how it’s stereotyped by both the general public and harmonica players themselves. The reason why I say that because a lot of harmonica players wrongly assume that everybody in our community has to play the blues and no other genres are brought up unless they’re being bashed on for not having Little Walter on it. The only exposure that most blues harmonica players have towards non-blues harmonica are Bob Dylan and Charlie McCoy, clearly liking the latter over the former. That also leads to stereotyping all country harmonica players as clones of McCoy.
I wish that other harmonica players who don’t fit the stereotype of being a carbon copy of somebody else get more love. I knew it was extremely rough for me because I didn’t want to sound like a popular bluesman and got a huge amount of flack for it on Facebook. So much so that people were making horrible memes about what I wanted to do and calling me names/slurs. Some people nearly tried to manipulate me to shut up about what I’ve been through. Nobody should have to go through that at all. The current online landscape for the harmonica is incredibly toxic and unwelcoming to anything that isn’t Chicago blues but I had no choice when I started out because I lived in the middle of nowhere, being the only harmonica player within my immediate area.
@Carlos1 that is amazing! I jumped off my seat at 1:23. What the heck is that!
I think I found the answer to my own question about Konstantin Reinfeld technique he uses in that video: a tongue tremolo. And seriously who is this guy? In his top 10 harmonica technique, his #1 is : bended overblows …
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I’d totally forgotten about it. What genre is it? 
