Here ya go! Happy thanksgiving y’all. This Video explores the connection between the “Harmonica Train Imitation” and “The Shuffle Rhythm.” Any questions pls let me know! I’m here for ya. I’m thankful for many things in my life and being able to teach and share my passion for the harmonicas is near the top of the list. Thank you Joe Filisko for your Friendship, Instruction , Generosity, Guidance, and Patience. I couldn’t do any of it without you. …and thank you Adam W West for the amazing editing once again.
I remember doing this exercise when I first started playing when I got it down, I started inserting tongue articulations changing yukka Tukka to shock the Doctor and tukki ti tukka and duh dada Duh ( my wife thinks we’re all ready for the funny farm when I tell her that this is like a language we speak)I love the use of the metronome I never had one back in the day because they were these big wooden and brass things that were extremely expensive. I use my little electric one all the time now. It really does help, even with your foot stomps it gets it closer to true time. It’s also a wonderful tool to help you get faster too. I love your videos, especially the ones on different styles. If there’s any more to that would love to delve a bit deeper especially with Cajun/ Zydeco styles. For some reason I can’t seem to wrap my head around them their a different feel entirely.
It’s basically my guitar tuner I only discovered about a month ago it has a built in metronome l, I used it mainly for guitar and getting my bend right. It’s a Donner DMT-01 tuner/metronome. It took me awhile to get used to it ( still getting used to it tbh) but I’ve found it does improve your playing on a lot of levels
I’ve got the train up to, 130, now, I can get it better, but as I get faster, I start running out of breath and then I lose my rhythm . I can’t tell what I’m doing wrong, maybe I just need to get used to the speed until my breathing patterns kick in better, at about 100, it feels comfortable as soon as I speed it up increments of five I’m ok, until I get it to 130, I think the body movement stuff in conjunction with this will be a big help. I can’t play sitting down, due to having one lung, I find that very constricting on my breathing. The other problem is when doing this in particular I am producing more saliva than normal which is part of my condition so I’ve got to find a way of preventing that as the excess is getting into my reeds and Jamming them. On the plus side doing this has worked wonders for my Asthma.
Keep it quiet and relaxed. That will give you your most speed. Also tip your head back when playing, it will stop all saliva issues and gravity will be working in your favor.
This Video explores the connection between the “Harmonica Train Imitation” and “The Shuffle Rhythm.” Any questions pls let me know! I’m here for ya. I’m thankful for many things in my life and being able to teach and share my passion for the harmonicas is near the top of the list. Thank you Joe Filisko for your Friendship, Instruction , Generosity, Guidance, and Patience. I couldn’t do any of it without you.
…and thank you Adam W West for the amazing editing once again.