Bryan A
11 posts
Oct 21, 2014
11:22 AM
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This just bothers me, I private messaged this guy but he said we'd have to agree to disagree. I just think if you're going to teach a Stevie Wonder song you need to do it right. I told him there are no draw notes above the 6 hole in Boogie on Reggae Woman and he just won't have it. I can see if he stated "this is my interpretation" or something along those lines, but he doesn't so it bugs me.
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Ted Burke
249 posts
Oct 21, 2014
11:31 AM
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The proof is the playing he's doing. If he's correctly describing what he's doing in this video, then I'd say his approach works. It sounds fine to me, although there are bound to be some who might find some small things in his performance to quibble with. I suspect you have your own approach to this tune, Bryan, that is as effective or even more. I would leave it at that.
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Bryan A
12 posts
Oct 21, 2014
12:05 PM
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Well, I guess I care about the student looking for answers and being misguided. Shortly after I learned this song I saw this video and I was glad that this video was not where I started. Also, this is not a performance, this is a lesson claiming to teach a stevie wonder solo, and he "teaches" it in a way that Stevie Wonder does not play it. Everything is good except 8,9 any draw note above the 6 is simply not the way Stevie does it.
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Ted Burke
250 posts
Oct 21, 2014
12:43 PM
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I think our hypothetical student comes away from this video just fines and no one will think badly of him if he plays the solo as this video instructs. I frankly your arguing distinctions that make no difference . As is, it is instruction in how he plays the solo; getting upset because he doesn't qualify as such is a waste of time. I think that is better spent posting your own videos about your own playing , monitoring your own growth as an artist.
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Gnarly
1142 posts
Oct 21, 2014
12:54 PM
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This solo lays out well on a Power Chromatic tuned diatonic--as a draw instrument--
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Bryan A
13 posts
Oct 21, 2014
1:17 PM
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true, I don't why it bugs me. I think it's the title of the video- ("How to Play Harmonica Songs "Boogie On Reggae Woman" Harmonica by Stevie Wonder-) Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ted, I'll let sleeping dogs lie
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kudzurunner
5072 posts
Oct 21, 2014
2:53 PM
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He's a good player with a good ear, and I'm happy he's trying to teach this song. But I agree that the 9 draw--the fourth--is wrong, and sounds wrong.
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Gnarly
1143 posts
Oct 21, 2014
4:40 PM
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I heard Stevie say it was first position (at NAMM), on I believe an Ab.
I also asked if he used keyed chromatics or pitch shifting, and he said no.
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Frank101
27 posts
Oct 21, 2014
5:05 PM
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Guy's about 20 years too old to be wearing his cap like that.
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Todd Parrott
1250 posts
Oct 22, 2014
2:21 AM
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Bryan, you are correct. Stevie doesn't play any 8 or 9 draw. It's easy for our ears to perceive the notes as 8 or 9 draw, because Stevie is implying those notes, but by blow bending.
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Bryan A
14 posts
Oct 22, 2014
7:46 AM
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I know, that's why I told the dude he was teaching it wrong. I had a one on one lesson in Austin, TX with Michael Rubin based around this song conceptually because I was playing with a new band at some larger festivals just last summer. Opening for the Buckwheat Zydeco and the Wood Brothers so I wanted to get it perfect and it took some work, I still don't have it all down but I think the teacher should at least put out the right note choices
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Michael Rubin
989 posts
Oct 22, 2014
8:24 AM
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We all teach what we know. That's what he hears now and is what he's teaching and that's a good thing. His mistake is not taking your critique seriously and fact checking your idea with a more advanced player or many more advanced players than himself.
I recently changed my methodology of teaching another subject based on a music major's opinion. You've got to keep growing as a player and if someone calls you out on something, you have to weigh that idea seriously. Which doesn't mean you have to change your method.
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timeistight
1648 posts
Oct 22, 2014
8:57 AM
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"I recently changed my methodology of teaching another subject based on a music major's opinion."
What subject was that, Michael?
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Michael Rubin
990 posts
Oct 22, 2014
9:42 AM
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Timeistight, pretty simple, although I say flat 3, I always write 3b. For certain jazz chords, like Cm7b5, I write the flat before the 5. I was taught both ways were correct, just different dialects. My singing instructor just about lost her mind when she saw me write 3b. She went to school for classical music. I'm trying to shift, but old habits die hard.
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walterharp
1542 posts
Oct 22, 2014
10:14 AM
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damn i love this song.. takes me back to high school and the groups of black girls dancing down the halls with one with a ghetto blaster on her shoulder.. they would laugh when i would dance with them on the way by!
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Gnarly
1144 posts
Oct 22, 2014
10:43 AM
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I like doing it because, although it is a bona fide hit and recognized by many, the words are naughty--how'd they get that on the radio?
And I get to do the harp solo.
Damn, I should do this song at every gig.
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