"I Wonder" by Humble Pie Harmonica Solo Tabs

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@daniel.baxter turned me onto this track!

I used to listen to Humble Pie, but didn’t remember any harmonica work in their music. Great really soulful playing here. This solo is a good example of why it will pay rich dividends to practice your 2nd position blues scale:

-2 -3’ 4 -4’ -4 -5 6
6 -5 -4 -4’ 4 -3’ -2 -2" -1 -1’ 1 -1’ -1 -2" -2

99.9% of this solo is made up of notes from the blues scale!

Here’s a a quick rough sketch I made of the tabs for this solo:

-2” -2 (vibrato) -2” -1 1

-2” -2” -2” -2” -2 (vibrato) -1 -1’

-4’ -4 (vibrato) -4’ -3’ -2 -2” -2 -2” -2 -3’ -2” -2 -2

234 -4’ -45 -4’ -3’ -2 -4’ -45 -4’ -3’ -2

-3’ -2 -2 -2” -1 -1’ 1

-4 4 -3’ 3 -3’ 4 -4 4 -3’

-3’ -4 4 -3’ 3 -3’ 4 -4 4 -3’ -2 -3’ -2 3-3’ -2

345 -4’ 4 -45 -4’ -4 -4’ -4 -4’ -3’ -2

-2” -2 -2” -1 -1’ 1 -1 -2” -2

-2 -2” -1 -1’ 1 -1 -2” -2

-3’ -2 ‘2”

6 -5 5 -4’ -4 -5 -4’ -4 (vibrato) -4’ -3’ -2

-2” -2” -2” -2” -2” -2 -3’ -2 (vibrato) -2” -1 -1’ 1

-4’ -4 (vibrato) -4’ -4 -4’ -45 -4’ -45 -4’ -3’ -2

-4’ -45 -4’ -3’ 234

-4’ -45 -4’ -3’ 234

-4’ -4 (vibrato) -4’ -3’ -2 -2” -2 -3’ -2

I love getting turned on to great harmonica solos that I’ve never heard before! Thanks @daniel.baxter. Rock on fam. :metal:t3:

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Ye I really liked that.

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I looked on the AllMusic database to find out who played harp on this. The harp player’s name is Steve Marriott. Haven’t heard about him until looking up the album’s credits. He plays the harp very well. It’s miles ahead of what rock harmonica during these times sounded like.

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Steve was the band’s singer. I remember my elder brother getting the live album “Performance Rockin the Filmore” back when it came out in 1971. Super album (even though not soaked through with harp).

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