Hi just an idea came to me, what song is it your ambition to play. Although I’m a bluesman, I’ve always wanted to have a crack at Herb Alperts theme from the Green Hornet. For one I’m a big Green Hornet fan whether it be the old cliffhanger serials, the TV shows or the comic books or even the radio plays. The other thing is I am trying to get as near as damn to but add my own inspirations and improvisations. I did part of it with a pretty good band who could keep up with all the chops and changes ( I actually inserted it into a blues the rythm was slightly slower, but it worked the band leader looked at me with a big smile on his face and said now you’re just showing off:grin:
but it was fun. It’s obviously a very fast thing to play but even slowed down a bit it sounds cool as soon as I can meet up with this band again. I’ll see if I can get the wife to bring her iPhone as my phone is pretty naff when it comes to sound quality. Still working on the key really, it may differ slightly to the original as I’m inserting it into another song (hence not quite in the correct key) I believe the original is in a key of D, so it’s completely do-able but at the moment I love just doing B Flat on diatonic harp.
Hi,
I’d love to play Bad Boys heaven by Sugar Blue in a decent way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__28xmz2oQ
But this is a very long way to go…
Greets,
Christofer
I’ve met Sugar Blue nice chap. I’ll give this a look later. I think I’m correct in thinking he’s a lip purser, if I can work out the tab I’ll post it for you. But it comes with a warning I’m not great at writing tab
Hi Christopher,
Had a listen the hardest parts to this song are the intro and the solo, everything else is pretty much standard. I’ll have a go see if I can’t work it out for you
Oh I’m starting easy peasy … Love me Do by the Beatles then I’d like to progress to It’s Raining Again by Supertramp … I can but dream!!!
currently working up to some day be able to do this:
Awesome, than you!
This will bring me one step closer, even though I think the hardest part will be to add the same „feeling“ and doing the different techniques correctly. As I‘m a total beginner, this will be the biggest challenge. But I‘m looking forward to this 
Whammer Jammer and Big Walters Boogie.
It would be fun to be able to whip both of these out at a moments notice
Hi Christofer
Don’t worry I will figure it out the thing is with blues it’s like a language we all speak with a different accent but everyone recognizes the feeling. I doubt very much I could play it myself with the same feeling because sugar Blue is sugar Blue as much as howling wolf is howling wolf and so on you add your own inflections make it your ownn
Love these whammer Jammer is something I’ve been trying to nail for some time Walters Boogie was one of the first things I learned along with Juke, my babe and Who.
Is the last video generated with AI? The movements of the hands with the harp are not natural.
hi! If you mean the Badinerie Bach video, then it was made 9 years ago so not AI
I want to play my harmonica solo for The Allman Brothers version of Stormy Monday.
Don.
I’ve been doing that song for many years now, except I became familiar with the original by T-bone Walker first.
When I get a moment,( I seem continually busy ATM, I’ve got 8 Grand children and 1 brand new to the world great grand baby) I will have a go at working this out. It will take some time as I’m not good with harmonica tab. But I’ll get it as near as possible
I’ve figured out the key, and am close but no cigar as yet, it’s literally got to be broke right down into independent parts so I can figure out what he’s doing.
Instead of starting a new thread I am dropping this in here, if there is a better place let me know.
I want to learn the melody of “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey - I know the tabs are out there but I want to challenge myself to tab it out on my own by ear.
I need a couple of things to get me started and am hoping the awesome community can help.
I’d like to play along to the original - I am pretty sure so far that it is in the key of E.
I do understand positions however, I am having a hard time determining if this should be played straight harp (1st) on an E harmonica or cross harp on an A harmonica (2nd). So if someone knows the proper position please and I’d love to know how to determine it.
The song is not clearly bluesy or folksy so it’s seems a tuff call in my beginner opinion
Any guidance would be appreciated
Thanks
Mike
I like melodies and there’s a few that I can now play, probably poorly, but I’ve had a few compliments. One of my children died from cancer, when he was just 13. It was 20 years ago but of course my heart is still broken. I wrote him a poem and his siblings chose the songs to play at his funeral. They were just children at the time also. One of the songs was ‘I don’t want to miss a thing by Aerosmith’ and I would love to be able to play it. It’s a profoundly emotive song for me, so I would like to do it justice by playing it well. That same reason also makes it difficult for me to focus. It’s also difficult in a practical sense because of all the high notes. Paul Lassey plays it beautifully, I think with an A harmonica, and he seems to switch positions and play lower notes in places where I’m trying to play higher notes. I would love to know the tabs for his version and play it half as well as he does. If you like the song, google his rendition on harmonica, it’s awesome.
Great song @PapaCurly my wife and I consider (Don’t want to Miss a thing) To be “our song. We heard for the first time while we were dating
Hi Mike, If you are following the vocal line, very closely, I think if you listen to Steve Perry he has a few blues inflections as most modern rock singers do. And first position playing is usually the area of folk and some country. So I would go with second position myself and slowly pick the notes out, paying special attention to those particular notes. I have played this in a band on guitar, but I can’t recall the actual key or whether we changed the key for our singer not. You might actually have more luck however playing this song on a Seydel Wilde side tuned harmonica to give you those high notes, maybe someone who has one on here could advise as I don’t actually own one, but I believe the high notes are very high to mimic guitar solos. So you could use two harps one standard in second position for the melody and the Wilde side for the guitar parts. I think @Luke has done a great post on here recently about playing by ear. As some who plays by ear exclusively I can highly recommend this post as the advice on there is very sound if you want to play by ear.