the frozen canuck
82 posts
Feb 23, 2010
6:12 AM
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i`ve seen many performers,some move their head & some move the harp.Is there a right way or wrong way to perform warbles. the east coast blues is heating up
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toddlgreene
867 posts
Feb 23, 2010
6:20 AM
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I've heard third-hand from someone at a SPAH convention that the head-moving variety should be avoided by players with eyesight issues as it's somehow damaging. I do both, and have yet to look like the folks who sued Steve Martin's character in The Jerk over the OptiGrab...
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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Bluefinger
103 posts
Feb 23, 2010
6:33 AM
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If it sounds right, it is right, because that's the whole purpose ... do whatever works for you.
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If it ain't broke you just haven't fixed it enough ...
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LeeEdwards
32 posts
Feb 23, 2010
6:47 AM
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You can always combine the two. The head motioning toward the hand which is motioning towards the head means there ends up being less movemement required. Economy of motion and all that.
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"You will never get every possible thing out of an instrument, but the instrument will get every possible thing out of you" - Ray Charles.
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toddlgreene
869 posts
Feb 23, 2010
6:50 AM
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If you are playing on a stand-mounted mic and using your hands as a sound chamber cup, you'll pretty much have to shake your head, lest lose your cup.
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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barbequebob
527 posts
Feb 23, 2010
8:58 AM
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There is also another way to play the warble, one Sonny Terry used to do and that's move his tongue very slightly in an arc side to side.
Each way you do it has a bit different characteristic of its own and I make use of each of them.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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toddlgreene
873 posts
Feb 23, 2010
9:05 AM
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@ Bob-The tongue-blocking version is something I would like to master, as there is a definite sound difference. Hints?
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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barbequebob
530 posts
Feb 23, 2010
9:17 AM
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LIsten to any of the warbles Sonny Terry uses and it is distinctly different sounding. What you have to do is open your mouth using the pucker method opened over 2 holes, then kinda point the tip of the tongue behind the lower teeth (it's kinda like curling the tongue), and then move the tongue VERY VERY SLIGHTLY from side to side). It took me awhile to get the hang of it.
I actually learned how to do it from modifying a technique LW used for the 2-5 octave tongue rolls, where he'd open his mouth a tad wider than doing the normal 2-5 thing, do the exact same thing as with the Sonny Terry warble, but also play a throat vibrato at the same time and LW uses that quite a lot. I was taught that by a good friend of mine when he was up here in Boston named Seth Holzman, who now plays and teaches in the Philly area.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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Kyzer Sosa
140 posts
Feb 25, 2010
11:29 PM
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Im having a hard time with committing it to memory with my hands. I do both hand movement and head movement with warbles on a Sp 20, but not so much on my Manji...it's hands only. Im starting to think the differences in the comb (mouthpiece in particular) has something to do with it...
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Kyzer's Travels
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Bluzdude46
513 posts
Feb 26, 2010
2:45 AM
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LoL in truth I had to pick up a Harp and see what I do. It seems everything is moving both feet, head, Hands, belly (in a jolly santa kinda way) They don't call me The Fatman for nothin'!!
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The Original Downtown Philadelphia Fatman... Accept No substitutes!
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barbequebob
539 posts
Feb 26, 2010
5:45 AM
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Kyser, it`s all about the technique and making the subtle adjustments necessary to do it. The comb material or design has absolutely nothing to do with it at all.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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