Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I'm an ear player. I tried teaching myself to sight read a few times over the years, and can use the dots (very slowly) to help resolve the correct notes in a certain passage, but I'll only resort to them rarely. I memorise by simple repetition, going over and over a phrase until it feels flowing an...

For the lower 2/3 of the reed you should do standard embossing. It's not possible to use the nail art pen further down as the reed is flexible; it will slide underneath the tip of the tool. Anyway embossing the lower 2/3 in the conventional way is easy and effective, so there is no need to do anythi...

Here's a video to accompany an upcoming article in the UK Harmonica World magazine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQP6tZRXbTU

Thanks oldstudent. Do you have any musical examples of your tunings in action? That would be nice to hear

Well said rishio. Just three harps, huh? You win hands down on that count, without a doubt! And what you say about delving deep into just one tuning makes good sense - it's certainly worked for Howard Levy.

I look forward to hearing some tracks from you when you're ready to share

This is an interesting discussion, but with music, words only go part of the way - musical examples can be more viscerally effective in making a point. As noted earlier, I like to use several harmonica tunings/types and choose between them depending on their effectiveness in different situations or ...

Thanks Rishio for your in-depth comparison of the two tunings, ED/PaddyExtended and PowerBender. As stated elsewhere I have explored both going back quite a few years, and and have recorded albums with each. As with all harmonica tunings, they each have their pluses and minuses. You make some good l...

I think harple might be inquiring about the notation software rather than the pdf conversion per se? Assuming so, here is the process I used. Since I don't read music, I wanted to input the score by simply playing - rather than laboriously dropping in notes one by one with a mouse, as I've had to do...

Book of drills, as in practice routines... Ha! I hadn't ever thought of that, but it works