first experiments with cross harp on a home recording - tips for improving harp very much welcome!

http://www.box.net/shared/obz1a2j6jx
thanks
R
jeffl wrote:Overall it sounds decent, ric. The harp didn't seem loud enough, but it could be my computer here at work. I like the harp style matched to the "drone" style guitar, but I hated the drum beat. I thought it shoulda been eighth notes with a heavy 2nd beat, as in one, two, three, FOUR, one,two, three, FOUR. But I could be wrong on that one.
jeffl wrote:If you're not real comfortable with the drum thing mebbe you could try it with just using your foot. Do you have the acoustic version of a stompbox... an old wooden soda crate, or just a good wooden floor...? I think the drums might sound better for the kind of tune you're workin', but just a thump on the 2nd beat might do it. It's always worth the time spent to listen to Walter Tore's One Man Band stuff, to see how he works his harp comps when he's got his hands full with guitar/keyboards, and his feet busy with his trap set. I read a blog from the band "Harper" (an Aussie blues guy relocated to the U.S.) and he mentioned that one "special needs" school they visited had their music students doing drum circles where different people beat out different beats to fill a rhythm out. It's a good exercise to just slap on your knees, doing quarter notes on one knee and eighth notes or triplets on the other one. Have you ever done that...? It's a beginning band exercise, but it builds fundamentals that apply to all levels of music.
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