Is it just me, or is it extremely difficult to do this properly without landing on a slightly thin sounding 1 draw?
I know it's quite difficult to describe these things. Nevertheless, anyone fancy having a go?
I honestly do believe this is the hardest thing I've yet tried to master. Throat vibrato, draw bends, blow bends, overblows - well, 6OB - all seem easy by comparison.
---------- 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchen; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty' - Frank Zappa
the 1 draw on my low harps sounds rattly unless i'm VERY careful about my embouchure and breath control. This makes it very hard to hit fast, which is necessary for some tunes. I've been kind of treating it as an "avoid" note when I play on low harps, but that is FAR from ideal... I've tried the wax/nailpolish tricks, but they don't seem to work on the very low harps (fine on an A harp, bad on G and lower). Strangely, I don't have any problems with the one blow, even though it is a lower note, and thus a longer/heavier reed...
I don't have that problem. I play this on a low-D with glissando because I misremembered it (I thought it used a glissando, but it doesn't much, but you can if you want, for practice)
Last Edited by on Aug 09, 2009 3:52 AM
