well this is my attempt at stone fox chase 9 months into my playing. i think i played it a little too fast. i might make anouther video with out the effects an a differnt mic an new speaker. comments welcome.
I don't think you were too fast. Your bends were pretty good, but your phrasing was off sometimes and the whole thing had a very self conscious feel to it. Let it flow - don't think about it so hard!
I would definitely try again without the effects too,
that sounded as good as it can get.. if you played that for people that dont study like us they would love it.. you make it look easy and it is not that easy
if I get it right : distortion+delay+reverb+chorus and I'm MY opinion all too much...Counter clockwise your effects
For your play this is more or less the notes, but the rhythm is completely backwards most of the time. To cure this, listen to this song, measure the beats with your hand and sing the rhythm while trying to understand where is the theme on these beats, and do that a LOT until you've understood where all the rhythmic pattern is going on, ALL that without playing during at least a week.
Once it's done and that you're sure you've get it right, then take your harmonica and record yourself with having in your mind to apply "the groove".
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the only effects were delay an chorus. thanks for the advise ill try that. here is anouther one with only delay an my new sm57. an anouther video just havin fun with the sm57. half the video has chorus the other half dosnt.
You are choosing the wrong note for the "chucka" part of the phrasing. If you want to exhale for the phrase, go through the 3 blow only. Otherwise, it is an inhale chord instead of the exhale. It sounds discordant like you are in the way of a bus. da dat da *honk* da-dat da da-da *honk*... You also gotta find a groove to sell it.
I think all three videos show an interesting experiment in progress. The beginning of the third video in particular has some really neat Indian-sounding scales. (I'm sure they're familiar to the more adventurous among us, but they're not anything I could play right off the bat. Younger players these days make my youthful experiments seem as primitive as a guy nailing a wire to the side of a shotgun house.) I agree with Chris (and Christelle...a Chris-heavy board we've got here) in terms of basic observations, but I suspect that what they don't like is a function of what you're less interested in; your videos strike me as tonal experiments rather than disciplined attempts to nail the original groove. They're valid as that. My own taste, of course, demands that strong groove--that dance groove--and you'll probably want to work on that. But don't lose your willingness to experiment with way out tones. Maybe five boxes is a way to get at something new.
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