Desperado

Since yesterday after reading your post, I’ve been out riding fences, for so long now… :smiling_face:

Here’s my take on a “C” harmonica:

Desperado
5 -4 -4’ -4 4

Why don’t you come to your senses?
5 -4 4 3 4 3 -4 4

You’ve been out ridin’ fences for so long now
4 4 5 6 5 -6 6 5 5 -4 -4’ -4

  • Not sure why, but even if I give spaces to align the notes with the lyrics, the program seems to put a single space between each note after I post it, so they don’t coincide. Maybe someone has a better way to keep the tabs in line with the lyrics? :thinking:

In both cases above :point_up_2: on the bent notes (-4’), they can be done away with, without too much harm, but I like the expression they give to the song. I almost put another one at the end of the first line as well, since I sometimes go there as I play it, but then I came back to my senses. :wink: :laughing:

I tried to play the tabs @Dai posted, but they weren’t working for me. I’ll go back and watch the video and try again, since I think they are probably more correct and seem to be in the key of G.

But with that said, I wanted to post the tabs I hear them as I go through my “process”. Not sure what position my tabs are in, but I’m gonna guess at a first position in key of C, rather than the actually key of G, in which the song is written. I’m really not much of a tabs guy, and they often confuse me when I try to play, because I can’t visualize the rhythm of the song as I see them, and when the tabs are wrong, even more so :woozy_face:

Your comments @craiginker have led me to review some of the things I’ve learned about the difference between Relative Pitch and Absolute Pitch. I thought I read it here, but now see the main topic here which talks about this is on EAR TRAINING.

I did a quick search on You’re Tube, and there are loads of videos talking about the phenomenon, but here’s my quick take:

Absolute pitch helps us determine the pitch of particular notes
Relative pitch helps us to determine the intervals between notes

I’m not very good on the first, but getting better on the second.

Surely others here can add to this thought with much more exactitude, but it seems to me that as harmonica players that RELATIVE PITCH helps us to be able to reproduce songs more rapidly on our trusty harps, regardless of the key we happen to have at the time, while ABSOLUTE pitch helps us to pick up the right key harmonica.

As long as the song is in a Major scale, and we have a Major scale harp, it seems to me we can make the song sound pretty much how it should… With the right amount of skill, we can even do a flip flop, playing a Minor scale on a Major harp or vice versa, but I’m not quite there, yet.

@Slim, you care to weigh in on this subject?

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