the growling sound
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- How do blues harmonica players get that rough, dirty sound on the low notes? Here's how. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica.
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I LOVE your stuff, Adam. Thank you so much for making this content throughout the years. You are an inspiration.
Adam, you keep the fire alive! Ciao from Napoli, Italia!
It's about time somebody else covered this other than me. I use the growl all the time in my playing. The reason why I started doing growls was because of my harmonica hero, Terry McMillan, a session player that frequently used them. I get my growl through sounding a harsh French R sound as it vibrates my tongue and has the shape of a bend already in there. It's absolutely fun to sustain them. I learned this technique right after I learned how to bend notes. The way I like using them is growling on the 3 draw half step bend like Terry McMillan did a lot.
Do love your atmosphere videos, Mr. Gussow! I love rains. I lived in Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv region, and there were no good place to play harmonica, so I went to a cemetery. It was almost always empty. And I remember the day I learned how to do overblow. I also played harmonica, when it was raining. Everything is cool, except for the throat - there's a risk to catch a cold or a throat disease playing outside in such a rainy day.
not finished yet, but there is a growl achieved via the soft palate. like a snore while drawing. put that together with those full bodied low draws and you can make some cool sounds.
haha yeah, there's that too. I never tried to control it till now, might as well try.
I've been looking for a lesson like this for years. Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!
Yes!!! Always good to see you in the car about to give us a killer lesson. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thank you!! I've learned so much from you. You've made my inner child so happy.
Thanks Adam!
Rain makes the best backing track.
Hell yeah! “Long Distance Call” to kick it off!
Was just wondering about this, perfect timing!
Hey, I'm looking for a tab for a certain ending/turnaround. I don't know what to call it but it goes, da da
,da da, da da, da da, dunt, de, be, behhh
I'm happy you're still making videos. I just bought a harmonica yesterday and I have been using your videos to learn how to use it. You're a great teacher and I love to see someone have such a passion for it. Thank you and I hope you're doing well
Jason's early vids and Adam's helped me 7/8 years back. Keep practicing.
@@Kryynismme to 6 years but . Takes a lot of practice but you will do it
I've been playing for about one month. I got a full set of Lee Oskar's. I learned Rolling and Tumbling last night on mouth harp. I can play it on slide guitar too.
Long time no see Adam :)
couple of my students showed me, what they mean by "growling". It were low bended double stops on amped harp.
I JUST wanted to ask you this yesterday! Sonny Boy Williamson II tune, he makes it growl, on the one, draw, right at the beginning, like a boogie woogie thing, and it's got a klaxtony sound. Crazy deep sound. I wondered what key harp he had. I thought that was the deal, lower key harp.
"Bye Bye Bird" Sonny Boy Williamson II.
I've been using the flutter tongue technique from playing saxophone, that's an interesting growl.
Hey Adam, These videos are incredible! Thank you for sharing. I play harp and guitar at the same time, solo acoustic...just enough to get by! Hands obviously not available. Any tips for us guitar/harp players to better our playing? You are a giving spirit and that's a rare thing these days. Thanks again.
All I can do is direct your attention to the playing of two of my good friends who happen to be two of the very best guitar/harp players out there: Jimi Lee (Austin TX) and Deak Harp (Clarksdale MS). Search YT for their videos. (I've put some out there.) Great sound on both instruments.
Can anyone transcrip the intro to tabs? sounds amazing!
that is how you blow out the harp
You should have your own brand of harmonicas called the Gusso., so why don't you?
The Gussow!
Now he's stolen a car and is hiding from the cops with his stolen harmonica. This guy never learns.
Wow..Say what? The man himself said this is the way.. What man? Can't you hear the words coming out his harp? I thought he said something. Yeah, don't you know harp talk? dang.. Better read you a book son..
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Another possibility for a "growling" sound is (for lack of a better analogy) to _snore_ on the draw notes. The latter is something I stumbled across, while doing a hard bend several years ago; I pulled my tongue so far back that I accidentally snored...and the sound was _magnificent!_ Now, I do it on purpose. One can also "trill" the tongue (like a Spanish "rr") on the blow notes; it creates a similar...but admittedly not as dramatic...effect that I particularly like in the upper octave.
I think you're right. That "snore" sound is, I think, an intentionally (or creatively) disrupted glottal stop.
Finally I found a video about this! All the other videos I’ve found they think the growl is letting the next hole bleed in slightly.
Tha k you so much
I stumbled across your videos like 10 years ago after going through a terrible breakup. Back then I bought a dime store harp thinking I'd be shredding in no time (how hard could it be right?). I was obviously very wrong but I'm also very stubborn so eventually I got good. Good enough to need a better harmonica, good enough to join a jam session, good enough to get paid to play, good enough to conjure the deceptively difficult magic I first heard pouring through your cupped hands. After not thinking about your channel for years, I'm super stoked to see that you're still at it. I've borrowed licks and tricks from several greats but when people ask me who my biggest influence is I tell them its you, Mister Satan's apprentice. For that I can't thank you enough.
It's been 5 years since I picked up my first harmonica, and I've been learning the tricks and the feels and the philosophy of the bluesman with you. Now I'm a harp busker. I knew about the tongue trick at the end. It's a bittersweet feeling knowing I found out on my own, but it's been done already. Thanks for your work.
YEA !!! BLOWING THE BLUES IN THE CAR IN THE RAIN ,, VERY COOL!!!! 😊
More texture...
Just beginning but from watching your video I was playing around and tilted the harmonica down bc at an angle and got a cool “ growl” out of the harp,I’m not sure if this is the sound but it’s something I’m going to play around with
That can work. Some people do the opposite and tilt it up. Both of those things change the airflow and, if you handle them skillfully, can inflect the sound in nice ways.
Interesting stuff. I'm wondering though. I also like that "growling" style but I'm not sure I ever called it a growl. Then again maybe we're talking about two different things and I'm on a different page (?). What I'm referring to, and what I like is that Big Walter Horton sound which I always found to be sort of a growl. However like I said I never referred to it as such. I thought of it more like distortion or rasp as in singing. Sugar Ray Norcia is someone who also uses this. So I'm not sure if it's just technique or perhaps a combination of technique and mic/amp settings. But I do love that Big Walter and Sugar Ray tone. And that "growl?" is what I'm attracted to.
I make growling noises trying to swallow and snore sametime while bending note. Bb and C harmonicas are best for this tech. Growl sounds similar to Trumpet's.
Good to see you Guru Gussow! Wish you good health and longest life from Bangladesh!
I think some of it may be the Marine Band . You have amazing technique and embouchure …. Always love it ….but I have a suspicion that the bamboo combs and brass reeds side vented just lends itself to more sizzle than other harps like Rocket Amps or Spec 20’s .
That's a reasonable theory. I should see if I can make exactly the same sounds with a Special 20. That would be a good challenge.
Cool video, but sort of humorous that your car is your office.
It's a long story that I've told more than once. It began back in the winter of 2007 when I'd only done half a dozen videos and my wife shushed me, saying "The baby is taking a nap," and I retreated from the house to my car. The baby is now a 230-pound 16 year old euphonium player, but I still use the car as my office.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 A civilian can only stand so many hours of a new player trying to bend a note, or a teacher trying to teach a new player. And overblows, that will cause a divorce!
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 good acoustics..
Man i thought you were dead but nice to see you again 😊 ,i own one harmonica- c key lately I've been practicing soviet anthem on it but I'm having little problem can you make a little video about how to play the music
You got to be kidding me..
@@artwhat.. nope I'm serious what made you think that I'm kidding
Ок. And... where is growling sound?
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