The audience will never know. Only advice i can give is it sounds like your breathing with your chest. It might be your mic, but try breathing with your stomach. You'll get better tone that way.
There is some improvement from the last video I saw from you, but there still needs to be more use of your hands to shape the sound, and you still need to have your entire body, including facial muscles, chest muscles, diaphragm, etc., more physically relaxed. Don't worry about the mistake that much for now because in front of an audience, unless you're playing in front of a house full of very picky professionals, most people in the audience ain't gonna notice it unless you make a dumb face. Also consider using more vowel sounds, AKA manipulating the inside shape of your mouth for different tonal qualities as well and also using varied breath levels too. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Thanks for the tips so far. I am not sure if it's the bad computer mic, my technique, or my dead harmonicas so I switched harmonica, position, and mic'd it this time. I am having trouble incorporating different hand shapes , even cupping into my playing so maybe practicing mic'd a little would help. I play everything tongue blocked in these videos, are the vowel sounds still applicable to tongue blockers? Also, what were the cues that I wasn't relaxed BBQbob? This is another hard one to start changing as well.
I use both TB and puckering, often switching in mid phrase and the vowel sounds definitely works both ways and it`s a matter of relaxing, experimenting, and making very subtle adjustments. Sometimes creating more space inside the mouth can do what you need bv always being physically relaxed is key. There were different times when you began a phrase (not all the time) was when I detected it and when you hit the clam, it came right out. Remember, this is an ongoing process and so not everything is gonna take hold right away. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Many things I learned from taking vocal lessons, including breathing, relaxation, playing with an open throat (which also comes from being fully relaxed), as well as how you shape your mouth/oral cavity to form your vowels are all very applicable to harmonica. Just gotta take the time to experiement and adapt. Too many players tend to play very physically uptight all the time and they just don;t realize that they're making an excessive amount of uneccessary work for themselves, hurting their tone and chops big time, in the process. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
