Major scale/arpeggio excercise
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Tenhole.com diatonic harmonica examples: The major scale is played up to the ninth, back down and then followed by a major seventh arpeggio. The example is played on a C major diatonic harmonica. If you have practiced the scales and the arpeggios you will know that a scale has a very different breathing pattern than an arpeggio. This excercise combines to two in order to familiarize you with switching between the two.
@gauravcha The excercise is this: Play a major scale up to the ninth and back and then play a major 7th arpeggio up and down. I could write that out in tab, but that would not help. You need to understand it in order to play it. If you need info on where notes are on a harmonica then check out overblow.com.
thanks a lot for posting this video tinus.. would it be possible for you to place the harmonica tab for this exercise online.. if not the whole exercise.. then maybe just scale by scale. much grateful. regards, gaurav
Impressive! If i could do that, I’d shelve my chromatic!
Very good and tunned! its really hard to do that!
impressive bro
Hi Tinus, Intonation is good, timbre very good, but articulation fair at best. Douglas Tate recognized true legato is impossible on a blow-draw instrument, thus, scales should be practiced mezzo-staccato. Douglas used a light, glottal ‘cough’ between all notes. Exceptions to mezzo-staccato in your vid are bent-to-straight and straight-to-bent transitions–still glissando. I’m an opportunist: lip lifts; glottal coughs; nose-leaks (bent-to-straight); and, if timbre is unaffected, tonguing. JT.
thank you for the intelligent insights into the scales of a basic harmonica. and a tasteful video too.
Tinus serieus ……………………. another level !!!!
i wish i could be your kind of happy
but im just starting blues on a diatonic
JAZZ on a diatonic harp F… Brilliant!!!!
Nice Tinus
Exactly what I should be working at. My wife wants me to practise more. Now I’ll just close the door behind me, start your video and pretend its me practising
Excellent exercice !!! I think your intonation is not so bad probalby your harp is tune pretty close to 440 that why could sound’s edgy and playing alone is different than playing in a band where you could adjust the intonation to other instruments. Anyways that’s cool stuff !!!
Jesus! Please, say that u are fake!
I’ve been trying to do this for one year…
Very Good. and hugs from Brazil
that was great
Wow.. Thanks for showing me that this is humanly possible to do!..
Greatly impressive! Very smooth overbends, clean intonation (sax players often don’t has as good intonation). I play all 12 scales, but don’t have even half of control you have, especially 1 hole overblow
Thanks for the suggestion Robert, but I don’t think that that will improve my diatonic playing. Besides chromatics just don’t feel right to me and I think I would rather be happy than in tune any day.
The intonation is horrible! Get a chromatic harmonica.