{"id":1628,"date":"2018-10-21T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/?page_id=1628"},"modified":"2018-11-12T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:22:49","slug":"marche-daincourt-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/en\/marche-daincourt-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Marche d’Aincourt Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bending and overbending technique has greatly changed over the last years. Knowledge has grewn, and, thanks to Sebastien Charlier, we now know that we only need 4 tongue positions to get all the bendings and overbendings available on the instrument.<\/p>\n

And moreover, we also know that, using the appropriate technique , bended notes can sound good enough to play melodies that sound great. This is a major breakthrough in the way we deem the instrument.<\/p>\n

To depict this change, and to encourage diatonic harmonica players to be creative, we decided to start a friendly challenge : the Marche d\u2019Aincourt challenge.<\/p>\n

J\u00e9r\u00f4me Peyrelvade (http:\/\/www.jeromepeyrelevade.com<\/a> ) has composed the Marche d\u2019Aincourt, a piece that you can find in the Valentine Goby\u2019s audio book \u00ab\u00a0Un paquebot dans les arbres\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

We think this piece offers a pretty good way to see what we can do to play melodic using bendings. The piece is in F# minor and features lots of F#, G#, A,C#, F (E#) in the lower range, that you can get using bendings on a C harmonica.<\/p>\n

J\u00e9r\u00f4me kindly agreed to embark on the challenge, and provided the first part of the score (the score is written for a lydian tuning, but it doesn\u2019t really matters since the 5 draw is not played).<\/p>\n

You can listen to the theme here :<\/p>\n

https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/laurent-vigouroux\/marche-daincourt-harmo-seul<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to listen to the theme in context from the Valentine Goby’s audiobook \u00ab\u00a0Le paquebot dans les arbres\u00a0\u00bb:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/laurent-vigouroux\/marche-daincourt-fille-de-tubar<\/a><\/p>\n

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The challenge rules :<\/p>\n