I've been perusing the forums for a couple weeks now and occasionally have ran across a vid or two or 186 of some of the members here and I've found myself more and more these past couple of days looking SPECIFICALLY for those.
I'd love to have this here thread as a place for folks to post links to their vids so we can sort of have a collection in one easy to find place :) At a minimun post your YouTube nick so we can look for ya!
My YouTube nick: Bluzeman420
I personally don't have any vids yet. After 3 weeks of owning my first harp I'm finally starting to just jam with it a bit and starting to feel more comfortable with it. I am planning on posting something soon to get some feedback.
Same here. I always think its very nice to be able to see who's behind the post I'm just reading...
If you want to know how to link your your channel in your signature check out the forum how-to.
Here's a vid of a little summertime practice session.
The first half is played with a Bluesband in G. I followed a tip of odalanizi of applying some nail varnish on the reedplates... It didn't really work. However, the thing which is worse: I can't play more than a couple of minutes without my lungs hurting. The smell is gone, but there still seem to be some gasses evaporating...
Btw. Bluzeman, another thing you can try is to search through the harpfriends channel. You can often connect the people that subscribed to the channel or posted videos, with members of the forum...
Very very kewl vids guys! I've started lookin you all up on YouTube and MAN... I love how there is such a kewl range of styles and voices in this community.
I have made my first Video Diary installment as well just a couple hours ago. Check it out! Here's a link the thread since I'd rather keep comment and critique's in that thread.
I just created a youtube account for harp stuff related to this forum: blackbirdseattle65
I don't have any videos there, but one of these days, I may have the computer hardware and come out of the woodshed to inflict my playing upon the world. But not yet. I've got work to do, compared to the playing I'm seeing throughout the forum.
I've never posted here before but I read the threads a couple times a week. I find there is a lot of interesting dialogue on this board. Maybe one of these days I'll join in!
Some nice touches in there asilve3. I thought the first bit was going to be an entry for our Summertime Competition. Take it you were playing a Golden Melody? Oh! and nice blues hat, by the way. ----------
Keep em comin guys! Advertise! I've found a ton of your guys' stuff on youtube, and started adding friends. BTW I am still needing to record my next Vid Diary, Just been buried with school and work this week.
Hello everybody, i have a few youtube videos up. If you type in Tom Walbank there are a few. A video called Harmonica Guru was posted and shot by someone else but it has me playing whoopin' the blues by Sonny Terry. Deford Bailey, Freeman Stowers, Phil Wiggins are also influences in the piece, and hopefully some of me in there too.
Not bad! All it really needs is more pain and desperation. It's not easy to unleash that on camera. You're driving the car at 58 mph. I'm pegging it at 107 and the windshield wipers are beginning to lift. (In the original recording, I mean.) But you're on the road.
Blackbird, I couldn't find your channel on youtube!
I've been sendin invites, but apparently I hit some kind of limit for some indeterminate period of time before I can send more invites.
As for the Vids, I am totally diggin each and every one of them. I said it before, but I wanna say it again.. I LOVE how everyone has such a differnet voice, all bluesy yet distinct.
asilve3, I like how you step outside the traditional sound. You've definately got something unique there and it works. Love to see some more vids!
Sorin! Nice job on CC Rider... That is such a kewl tune. ---------- Bluzeman YouTube: Bluzeman420
Not bad! All it really needs is more pain and desperation. It's not easy to unleash that on camera. You're driving the car at 58 mph. I'm pegging it at 107 and the windshield wipers are beginning to lift. (In the original recording, I mean.) But you're on the road. "
Thank you for your kind words , I am just a beginner and after 2.5 years I am pretty sure I cannot drive it at 107mph , also I am very uncomfortable playing with a mic ,I never use it , I am just a leaving room player . Like I said in the beginning of the video ,all I know about playing harp I own it to you ,this particular piece made me learn TB.
I forgot to tell you but to hear the audio of my video you should have the volume of your speakers quite high because my recorder is a little bad.Asilve3 i really enjoy your video and the Kingley's video too .Just one question:Kingley before you have the youtube channel Bbmarine band didn´t you have another channel?Can you upload the music that you had in your anotther channel.There was some bad ass playning speccially your version of easy.
Jason Ricci and Dave Payne putting lead back in the harmonicas:
Shooting Bluesbands with dad... you have to see Dad's shot to believe it. It was so far away, you couldn't even tell there was a harmonica there. We had to put the Bluesband in a big black circle and put the harmonica in the middle of it.
here's a video of my band, feel free to comment - on the harp playing not the silly presentation of the video, I don't have a video camera, so just put together some bits to fill the space over the audio.
don't know if any of you saw this video, but I got a really snotty email from the lead singer of the band....
"Just listened to the Utube thing you did and I must say it is truly awful. The recording is poor and does not reflect the sound we achieve live. Whilst I see the potential in doing something like this it must be done properly with a much better sound quality so heres what I want you to do: Remove this from Utube right away please In future if you plan on doing anything regarding advertising for BH or if you have ideas on ways forward then you will consult with myself and Chris before doing anything. This is not the image, sound or type of advertising I want to see or hear for BH.
Cheers"
after my holiday I may try to 'rebrand' it and upload it for your comments. I treat it as a learning aid, but 'they' think different.
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My band - one of the few numbers I get to play harp on these days. The gig was an agency showcase, we had to fit three numbers into 10 mins, so it's a bit fast! Soundman clearly wasn't able to deal with anything other than karaoke club singers - after the horns fedback he cut ALL the monitors out. Helpful.
Below is a home video I did about 3 months ago. I play out on a steady basis in a duo thing with Daniel Sean ( an acoustic/electric guitar player that has all original songs) and with local legend the Reverend Elvis Jones. I gotta get me a digital camcorder for X-Mas. Best Steve Harvell
Nice one Steve. What key is that in? I don't have much of a range of harps yet ... Just an A and an E harp... until I get my new ones cleaned up and playable.. ---------- Bluzeman YouTube: Bluzeman420
Bluzeman, I am using a low tuned (F) harmonica in this video. I am using a "Shaker" dynamic harmonica microphone straight into a "Pignose" 7-100 amplifier (no special effects at all). I have the "Pignose" amp almost halfway wide open, just under half. The background song I am playing to is in the key of (C).
Here's a hodge podge of melodic stuff improvised slowly just to see if i can play the notes i want, when i want. This is at around five months since I started playing. In January I left one band and took this up in february, not knowing a blues band was about to pick me up on percussion..cool coincidence. I've been working on harmonica since then. I also play trumpet in the band and sing.
