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Work in progess: Love Is A Losing Game
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ValleyDuke
21 posts
Apr 19, 2016
12:32 PM
Almost figured this out by the end of the song - it's a Lee Oskar C Melody Maker. What do you think - any suggestions? My harmonica teacher says I do my hand vibrato too much and it looks distracting. He says I sound fine without it. But it's hard for me to break the habit.


Work in progress - Love Is A Losing Game from Duke Berryman on Vimeo.

Last Edited by ValleyDuke on Apr 19, 2016 12:32 PM
Goldbrick
1389 posts
Apr 19, 2016
3:06 PM
Playing is ok but it sounds to my ear like it is not quite the right key or something is a bit out of tune ??
I played guitar along to it and C major Pentatonic works nicely over the song

Feels like chords are mostly C , D minor and maybe f minor or dim, might be an e minor in there too ( I just hit the e note on the guitar bent it a little and it worked )

I hit the C and Dmin chords full and just used scales around the rest

Might be a good harp approach too

Then again maybe not

It is such a pretty song

Last Edited by Goldbrick on Apr 19, 2016 3:34 PM
ValleyDuke
22 posts
Apr 19, 2016
5:39 PM
Thanks, Goldbrick. I'll try to focus on the pentatonic. Using this C Melody Maker, I can do a CMaj7 and a Dm7 - as well some other chords. Maybe I can hit those 2 chords and see if they fit better.


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