Nicely done! I've seen several of you stuff and am always impressed. Glad you dropped in the tabs. I find them very helpful. They help me remember the song. I struggle to remember how I played something the first several times.
I've already recorded this and working on it.
I'm no tech guy, so, what is Dropbox (geez, did I just look like an idiot asking that question? :-) )
Nice work Grey Owl. I was just thinking about posting for a melody to make use of a country-tuned hohner, but decided to check your song out first. Of course, I heard that OB, oh well, too bad I can't do that...hang on...
Eleanor Rigby require ideal smooth intoning, which always hard to get on harmonica as well as on any other diatonic instrument. Especcially, taking into account that it played over orchestra back track, where instruments have this ideal chromatic intoning.
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Dmitry, the video won't play, says its unavailable. Actually second try it worked. yeah ok, whatever floats you boat hey. That's the sort of stuff you like huh? ----------
Thanks LumberjackShark, I wish you well with it. I have tabbed it out quickly for playing along to the backing track using a D harp as an alternative.
Dropbox is simply a website where you can upload files (music or otherwise) from your pc onto and then you can share the link to a particular file with others by directing them to the link.
Thanks Superbee. I don’t know that much about alternate tunings. I take it the country tuning still wouldn’t avoid the overblow.
I’ve taken a look at this in 12th position on a D harp and there are no overblows required but I find the bends a bit trickier (esp on the D harp)
-2-2-3**-2**-1, -2**-2-3**+4-3-3**-3-3**-2-3**-2-2**-2,-2**-2-3**-3*-3** x 2
-2-2**-2-3**-2**-1, -1-4-3**-2-2**-1,-2-2**-2-3**-2**-1,-1-5-4-3**-2-2** this could also be played on the next octave if preferred+6-5+6-6-5-4 etc w/o OB’s.,
Grey Owl, no, that's the thing. The 'country tuning' sharpens 5 draw so I can play this no prob. Without the OB. I've played it a lot today. On a country tuned sp20, G. Much better since I got home and spent some time on the gaps. It was taking a LOT of air before. It's been great fun. There's a big festival here this week for the solstice, I really should have been busking. I can tell this will be a great busking tune, even without backing. My third tune this week. And the best of the three. Thanks!
Nice one Superbee! It's good to have a couple of Beatles songs in the mix as a hook, as most people will know them and hopefully want to hang around and take a listen.
Thanks Groyster, I wish you well with it. The thing that threw me at the outset was playing along with the backing track. 1. It was faster than I thought 2. It's awkward playing to the backing track sections where you just have the percussive strings playing.
Very nice as usual! One of my favourite Beatles song. As for bends precise playing, I don't hear any bad notes. This is a C harp, so bends control is hard enough like and intonation. Grey Owl did you learn it by ear or by music sheet? Cool work on tabs also! I listened it with pleasure! ---------- my music
Thanks very much Wheel, I appreciate that a lot coming from you!!
I'm playing by ear on this one and this is what I normally do. I'm not so good with music sheets or even learning quickly when reading tabs for that matter although I am getting quicker at tabbing out what I play or hear. ----------
@ Superbee. Dammit, as soon as I think I’m getting to grips with this theory stuff, this happens. I’d figured the song was in G and I was playing 2nd on a C harp. So you got me thinking about resolving on E and I looked the song up and yes it is largely in E minor!
So 5th would be right for a C harp in the key of E minor. This is strange that I’m gravitating towards 5th position accidentally (it’s happened more than once) I nearly always played 2nd position!
That makes my 12th position on a D harp which I tabbed out, incorrectly labelled, as it should be correctly named 3rd position. I will get the hang of this one of these days...right now my confidence is shaken:)
I only wondered because I enjoyed playing it so much, I looked it up in Revolution in the Head, and read that McCartney described it as a plain E Dorian melody over a vamp in E minor. I wasn't sure that your backing track was the same as the original record, but I noticed your overblow-free version was on a D harp, which would make sense for E Dorian. I think sometimes 5th just does layout well. I know I had to retune the harp, but having done that its simply better to play on the C than the D. I remember the former member hvyj was a great advocate for 5th for minor tunes. ----------
