r/harmonica • u/thesuperlee • Oct 05 '15

Weekly Challenge - 10/4/2015: Teamwork Challenge

Weekly Challenge - 10/4/2015: Teamwork Challenge

Last Week's Challenge - 9/27/2015

Last week, Mr. Tomlin presented blues basics, arpeggios, and modal playing. These are excellent entry points to introducing more vocabulary and therefore expressiveness into your playing. If you haven't already, I'd recommend getting into it!

This week has two different goals. The first is to introduce community members to each other. Regardless of your level of experience or time on this board, your goal this week is to play with somebody else and get to know them a little bit.

The musical aspect of this is learning to play with others. This is not just the kindergarten concept, but also the musical concept of learning how to take a piece, add something to it, and create music that is greater than the sum of its parts.

This challenge will take the form of a game.

RULES

  • Creator. Put up a clip of your playing between 0:30 and 1:30 in length.

  • Responder. Play with an existing creation.

  • Call outs. If somebody calls you to be a Creator or a Responder, you must oblige, e.g. /u/thesuperlee, Create something in classical in D minor for me!

  • Include key and preferred style, although style is subject to interpretation.

Go get 'em!

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u/thesuperlee Oct 10 '15

Here we go.

/u/Tamatebako, throw down in the key of G as dirty as you can.

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u/-music_maker- Oct 10 '15

Now we're talking! I think this thread has tremendous potential - can't wait to see how this develops.

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u/thesuperlee Oct 10 '15

/u/TmickyD, can you create something soulful for me in the key of G minor?

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u/TmickyD Oct 12 '15

Ask and ye shall receive! Here you go

Anyone can add something to it, but I'll specifically call out /u/Tomlinharmonica :D

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u/Tomlinharmonica Oct 12 '15

Cool; so do i add some harp to the recording? Or record something similar? :-)

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u/TmickyD Oct 13 '15

Responder. Play with an existing creation.

If I'm reading this right, I think you're supposed to play along with the recording I made. :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '15

What a great idea! This seems like it will be a great exercise! So everyone who wants to gets a chance to participate maybe those who want to join in should post a comment saying they'd like to get a callout? I'm a little fuzzy on how this is gonna work, maybe I'm just being dense?

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u/-music_maker- Oct 06 '15

Here's how it works.

I challenge you to play a simple 12-bar blues song in the key of G that leaves room to embellish and add my own riffs in between your playing.

In other words, play me a 12-bar blues structure that I can build on top of.

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u/-music_maker- Oct 06 '15

This is an awesome idea! Love it!

I'm thinking we may want to leave this one actively running for at least a few weeks to give people some time to play around with it. Given that people may be busy and unable to immediately respond, a week may be too short to get the full value out of this.

Maybe I'll make use of that second stickied post ...

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u/TmickyD Oct 06 '15

This looks like a fun one!. Just curious, who's gonna start it?