[HTL-92] Harp Time Live
Start with Harps Tuned in C
[HTL-92-220728 – HARP TIME LIVE #92 – Thu. Jul 28, 2022]
Comments from This Session of Harp Time Live
Today we are going to play the Blues.
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Our harps are tuned in the Key of C.
We are playing in D – Dorian.
It’s all about repetition, patterns and most of all having FUN!
DHC was using a Looper today and playing along to it using different Riff’s from the Blues Jam Harp Camp. You could mimick what DHC did or do your own thing.
Pentatonic Scale
(decending from Right Hand [Thumb – 1st finger – 2nd finger to Left Hand [Thumb – 1st finger – 2nd finger])
(RH) D – C – A (LH) G – F – D
T – 2f – 3f T – 2f – 3f
Raising the 4th (G to G#) Play around with notes
G# – A
G# – A – F
Bending the G to G#
You can do this slowly or quickly play around with the sound.
The power of pattern. Try different patterns and move them around. Don’t worry about the rhythm just have FUN and feel the music.
You can use a SLAP BASS (in your left hand)
D (slap) F (slap) G (slap) A (Slap) D – wait REPEAT
Playing 4ths in Pentatonic scale
A+D, G+C, C+F, D+G.
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Please add your own insights, revelations, and takeaways below in the comments, even if someone else already said the same thing! Just say it in your own way or say it again the way they did.
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The Chat Feed (click to open)
16:45:48 From Kimberly to Everyone:
Loved not having to worry about the harmony
16:46:00 From Kristen Barry to Everyone:
me too!
16:46:07 From Tammy H to Everyone:
As long as you play the pentatonic scale no note sounded wrong!
16:46:51 From Sarah to Everyone:
Love call and respond! It worked fine for me.
16:46:55 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
I got mixed up between the recording, you’re cal and respons and what I felt to do myself.
16:47:03 From Tara to Everyone:
The backing track made the rhythmic groove clear and steady.
16:47:06 From diane giorgi to Everyone:
You can get lost in the beat because you don;t have to worry about the notes
16:48:03 From Faith to Everyone:
Knowing I can’t play fast (yet), I played the notes of the modal scale at half time or slower or in different order, and that worked fine.
16:48:03 From Elizabeth Murphy to Everyone:
I had so much fun watching you, I forgot I was supposed to play too…haha
16:54:50 From Linda to Everyone:
your singing helped
16:55:05 From diane giorgi to Everyone:
Loved discovering different chords and sound combinations
16:56:13 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
Still got mixed up between the piano and you.
16:56:22 From Sarah to Everyone:
A lot worked fine. Sometimes I thought you played something else with the left hand. I’m curious what you did.
17:06:36 From Julia’s iPad Pro 3 to Everyone:
That was very helpful and clear
17:06:42 From De Luna to Everyone:
it was so much fun, i let my self experiment
17:06:43 From Tara to Everyone:
I liked playing with the 4ths together (notes from the pentatonic, so there are 3 combinations).
17:06:51 From Melinda Ostrander-Aviles (NM) to Everyone:
The faster tempo was a little more tricky to catch the response, but it still was good practice.
17:07:07 From Cherrie Mooney–(Bad Axe, MI USA) to Everyone:
I liked learning new ideas. Repeating the same pattern helped.
17:07:59 From Sarah to Everyone:
Question do you starts this little melody’s on purpose on the d and g g#?
17:08:09 From Cathy Hornby to Everyone:
Finding it hard to avoid the E and the B and stat on the pentatonic
17:09:00 From Cathy Hornby to Everyone:
Especially if I bend the G – sends my fingers off pattern
17:09:14 From Faith to Everyone:
Can we use that (your creation that weone for our background in homework?
17:09:33 From Linda to Everyone:
looper pedal worked
17:09:34 From Elizabeth Murphy to Everyone:
I want to learn what you did muffling with the left hand over what you were playing with the right hand
17:10:00 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
my mission today is to play both hands together to work on getting my left hand back in shape.
17:10:18 From Tara to Everyone:
Oops, I think there are four combinations of 4ths in the pentatonic. A+D, G+C, C+F, D+G.
17:12:55 From Julia’s iPad Pro 3 to Everyone:
I loved seeing you play the melody with your RH while resting your chin in your LH. …so cool 😎 & laid back bluesy!
17:21:14 From Faith to Everyone:
Just realized if I miss the next beat to repeat my motif, I can just breathe for a beat and it becomes a syncopated motif which I can keep for the next one or go back to playing the motif on every beat.
17:23:18 From Heather F to Everyone:
Yah there is so much music in the rests!
17:24:13 From Tara to Everyone:
Mostly I kept to the same 3 RH notes, but they weren’t always in the same order, even if I didn’t intend that. It was fine any old way.
17:24:30 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
I was able to keep the rhythm, too, and I did “melody” in my left hand only
17:25:24 From iPhone to Everyone:
I liked the 8th on the Bass line.
It wasn’t really Hard to play with the melody with the right Hand.
17:25:28 From Heather F to Everyone:
Brilliant Cathy!
17:26:52 From Jeff to Everyone:
IPhone is Jeff lol
17:27:30 From Jeff to Everyone:
I thought I was labeled as Jeff lol
17:29:19 From Sarah to Everyone:
To hear the rhythm one more was very helpful. I’m going to play with the replay and practice this groove 😀.
17:31:04 From De Luna to Everyone:
I am so tempted
17:31:16 From Lynne Lapidus to Everyone:
do it!
17:31:23 From Carol Booth, Australia to Everyone:
So was I De Luna, so glad i did
17:31:59 From De Luna to Everyone:
Thank you so much
17:32:14 From Tara to Everyone:
Thank you, this was great fun!
17:32:18 From Elizabeth Murphy to Everyone:
My takeaway is learning the new damping while playing the right hand and I will try the Cathy!
17:32:24 From Kimberly to Everyone:
Thank you Deborah!
17:33:09 From Carol Booth, Australia to Everyone:
Came in late, but love R hand metronome
17:33:12 From Pam Jurgens to Everyone:
Thank you, Deborah!
17:33:17 From Julia’s iPad Pro 3 to Everyone:
I loved Cathy Hornby’s idea of jumping over the RH with the left. It then felt like I had a bass in the LH, the keys in the mid section and the vocals on top
17:33:22 From Cherrie Mooney–(Bad Axe, MI USA) to Everyone:
I’m glad to have new ideas for my meditation project.
17:33:34 From Elizabeth Murphy to Everyone:
Thank you for a fantastic session!
17:33:38 From Jeff to Everyone:
I liked the 8th bass line
17:33:40 From Cathy Hornby to Everyone:
Great fun – like the freedom to play about! Also going to practice the damping ! Thankyou again !
17:33:47 From Nicole DeVault to Everyone:
Thank you!
17:33:58 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
My biggest takeaway is the new baseline to try out, and to work on moving my left hand more quickly.
17:34:38 From Tovelah to Everyone:
Thank you
17:35:09 From Deborah Henson-Conant to Everyone:
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17:36:15 From Joke Verdoold to Everyone:
Wel have a nice time, here it’s time for sleep. `bye
17:52:15 From Tara to Everyone:
I’ve got to go. It was fun harping with you all today!
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