Re: Intro

The only venue you I play, so far anyway, is church.  I have not played the
the Chordet yet in public but have found a few  tunes in our church songbook
that I believe it will work with. Still working on it. This morning I played chords
for a couple tunes on the diatonic but as I said i my fisrt post, I'm looking for
songs to play tremolo. Thanks for the ideas. What do you mean by 
' ".... I play solo and straight with vocals" and  "....I play it solo 
and semistraight with vocalists" What is solo, straight and semistraight?
Do you play a second instrument? Primarily I play guitar but I'm always 
looking for avenues to include the harmonica.
 
CW

"Jonathan E. Brickman" <[email protected]> wrote:

 > Hello,

 >  

 > Just wanted to say hello and give a brief background. I've been

 > playing harmonica for several years, mostly diatonic, and have

 > started playing at church. Mostly contemporary music with some

 > hymns as well. I am mostly a chord player with the ten-holer and

 > would like to start playing more with other harmonicas. I have a

 > Huang Chordet that sounds great and I am still practicing and 

 > getting more familiar with it. 

 

I had to look up Huang Chordet.  That sounds very interesting!  It seems to fall under the "orchestral chord" category, I presume?  For what kinds of music and at what kinds of venues have you been using it?

 

> I am also wanting to starting playing Tremolo. I have two Hohners that are Richter tuned which I like

 > only as I am just plain more familar with that tuning. 

 

Rather easily understood :)

 

 > Jonathan - on the website you mention you play in church and

 > with a trio. Can you give me a song list of what you play at both

 > church and with the trio. Really interested what styles you and

 > others play.

 

"When The Saints" is the first song I learned on tremolo, and still my very favorite.  I play it solo and semistraight with vocalists, and once played it utterly rockin' as part of a topnotch jazz combo (drums, Hammond/Leslie, piano).  Whenever I pick up my harmonica case I find myself asking the Lord to do the latter again!

 

"Amazing Grace" I play solo and straight with vocals.  I do this with any song which has a similarly single-key melody.

 

"Jesus is Lord of All" is a song for which I like to play a true accompaniment on tremolo, a part similar to the same accompaniment I play on piano.  

 

"Good, Good News" is a song of which I would like to find more of its kind.  It's very energetic and jazzy, just right for tremolo.  I have played it quite a few times on tremolo on small gigs, and it gets noticed.  It has one (1) off-key note, which is easily playable as the minor tonic of whatever key I am in.  I conventionally play it in C, so I have my C-minor in a shirt pocket for the one note :)

 

Our church has a small but real-live pipe organ, and last Christmas Eve we had a visiting organist play.  (I can wing it, she can really play it.)  I have been trying for years to figure out how to do ensemble with this pipe-organ: I learned that piano plus pipe-organ is futility incarnate (the pure sine tones of the pipes will make any piano sound out of tune), and guitar plus pipe-organ just isn't there at all.  Pipe-organ is almost impossible to sing along with, because of the long attack of each note, and so last Christmas Eve I asked the man upstairs for an idea, and He had me run to the car to get my harmonica-case. I thought it was crazy, but it worked very well.  My tremolos played the melody right on cue for everyone to sing along with, and the pipe organ provided excellent background accompaniment.  

 

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 Jonathan E. Brickman

 http://joshuacorps.org

 


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