HOW TO PLAY THE HARP WHEN YOU ARE A GUITAR PLAYER
(See also post 260)
When you are a guitar player and also you play the harp (e.g.like Edmar Castaneda) , then you have finger nails only at the right hand , not at the left hand, and also the right hand is faster and more skilled in playing melodies compared to the left hand. It is not like a piano player who he may have trained both hands to play almost at the same complexity level. Then in such a situation , the harp player starts in playing with the right hand the melodic improvisation and with the lelft hand the simplicial submelody at lower octaves, which are so that there is one note per underlying chord , thus slow in changing, like the chords in a chord progression. In fact we just play at first one note almsot randomnly with the left hand when we feel that the chord changes or when we finish with the melodic theme with the right hand, and if the note that almost randomnly we play is not the right feeling we create a chromatic bass line up ot down till we end to a note that feels well and is in the underlying chord. Then as the skill is evolved instead of one only note per chord of the simplicial submelody we may start playing the whole chord or a bass-line over the chord.
