greetings all! Haven’t been posting in a while since was practicing on this specific piece - the previous stuff I learned was for building up my “skill tree” to be able to play it, and it’s still not perfect due to the occasional dirty note and other issues, but overall I’m quite happy with it and will be hanging up my proverbial “absolute beginner” hat, so to speak
Some things I encountered/noticed that may help others:
with this type of music, if you make a mistake it sounds like a broken piano, whereas in blues you can sometimes get away with the wrong note and no one would notice
recording yourself - super important
After a while, the tabs became a hindrance, and I found it easier to just occasionally look at them and otherwise try to focus on the actual harmonica (otherwise, your attention gets diluted by the tab instead of focusing on the actual playing)
it also helped me to make small mp3 “chunks” of the original music so that I could loop those and focus on those specific lines
Keypad…
What blues melodies may I find in the key of C? On any level.
I have the twelve bar blues. I have patients coincide. I can put feeling into it. C Scale, Chords
I went to look at blues for allah, GD. It’s not in the key of c. …Ideas…
Rolling around in my head for a while I’ve had pride and Joy, by SRV, it’s not actually a song I’m all that into but I thought with my own harps and a Wilde tuned harp I might be able to do a harmonica version of this, I know a couple of bands I can actually practice it with. But it’s explaining to the missus why I spent £80 — on harps — she wouldn’t be amused.
I’ll often pick up my harp and just blow on it until something familiar comes out and then continue on playing the song, as best I can. I never know if it will be Brahams lullaby or marry had a little lamb but it often amazes me how my hands seem to know where most of the notes are… sometimes
This is now played by me with a G harp, and not the C harp as I did originally here
when I did this original version of mine, for the longest time I was learning it the “wrong” way in that, while it sounded like ‘something’, it didn’t sound like the kesh jig. My next goal now is to speed it up and make fewer mistakes. Now, I’ve had to more or less re-learn it due to initially learning it ‘wrong’ - still, that old version will forever hold a special place in my heart since it has become its own thing for me now.
Hi all, I haven’t been on here for ages, I hope you are all doing well. I have a gig coming up and I wondered if anyone has the harp tabs for Squeezebox by The Who? I’m winging it pretty well (I think!) but the tabs would be useful, especially so I can play the melody line as a lead break, it’s surprisingly hard to find online so I thought I’d ask here. Thanks in advance!
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