Xpun3414
17 posts
Oct 09, 2010
11:16 AM
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Hi all,
Well,Ive been looking for some harp tabs & cant find them any where. Im lookin for asked her for water,Smokestack lighting,& How many more years by Howlin Wolf. Standing around cryin,Baby please dont go,& I just wanna make love to you by Muddy waters to name just a few. Any ideas? Im dyin' to play these songs.
Harp on,
Jimmy
P.S. Just wanted to say, Albert Cummings is playin here in my town on the 15th. I think thats soooo cool. Cant wait
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nacoran
2920 posts
Oct 09, 2010
11:47 AM
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Adam has some tutorials in the *The Store* to the left, but I don't think those are in there. The record companies have sued a lot of site that have tab up (not just harp), so it's hard to find a big library of it. Sites either end up paying royalties (which can put a small site in financial trouble in a hurry), or they stop posting it, or they go underground. I'm hoping they switch to a advertising model instead, where you have to watch an ad for something related and get the tab, but until then, it can be tough. Try Google searches, 'Song Title' harmonica tab.
http://www.harptabs.com/song.php?ID=2661
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Xpun3414
18 posts
Oct 09, 2010
11:52 AM
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Ive googled till my eyes fell out :)
Thanks for the link
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HarmonicaMick
187 posts
Oct 09, 2010
12:44 PM
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@Xpun: In all honesty, I think you're gonna have more luck (and fun) by trying to tab some stuff yourself. I know it's hard work, very hard work, but read on.
1) A lot of tabbed stuff you're liable to find on the web will not be all that accurate; it will be the best that someone could come up with given the limitations of their own playing ability.
2) Tabbing a tune yourself will make you much more than just a passive learner. You will have to listen like hell to hear what's going on.
3) There is - to me at least - much more of a sense of accomplishment in working out a tune than having it handed to me on a plate, but that's just me.
4) Some pieces contain far too many subtleties for them to be tabbed with any degree of accuracy, at least not without extensive footnotes, which I've never seen. Take that tune you mentioned, 'Standing 'Round Crying'. There are little sparks of genius in that that are very hard to notate in any form; neither tab nor conventional manuscript has symbols to describe what's going on.
If you want to work stuff out then get some software to help you. I know that Adam uses - and so do I on his advice - the Amazing Slow Downer. It doesn't cost the earth, and is very easy to use.
I think some of the fellas on here use Audacity, which is free, but I've not tried that myself.
EDIT: And, unless you want to go completely insane, use another line above or below the tab, to show where the notes go, e.g.:
Splitting the beat into 3
1 & a 2 & a etc
or into 4
1 a & a 2 a & a etc
The more complex the tune, the more you'll need that kind of accuracy, unless you're gifted enough to hear something and just 'get it'.
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Last Edited by on Oct 09, 2010 2:20 PM
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Greyowlphotoart
121 posts
Oct 09, 2010
12:50 PM
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@ HarmonicaMick. Nero Premium burning software also has a time correction facility and a transpose key feature as a matter of interest in the Nero Wave Editor section.
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jonlaing
124 posts
Oct 09, 2010
2:00 PM
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@Xpun3414
If you're anything like me, you're going to get real bored of tabs real fast. Figure it out for yourself, you'll have so much more fun doing it, and you'll feel so much more accomplished by then end.
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hvyj
690 posts
Oct 09, 2010
5:59 PM
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Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I've been completely frustrated trying to find tab or sheet music for the Howlin' Wolf tune "Who's Been Talkin'?"
I'm not that good at transcribing accurately from recordings.
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DanP
149 posts
Oct 09, 2010
8:54 PM
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Jerry Pornoy in his his Harmonica Masterclass says that if you want learn a particular riff, you should do it by listening. He went on to say: "When you are trying to learn a riff or solo off a record, listen to it until you can sing the part you are trying to play. Then finding the right notes will be much quicker."
Last Edited by on Oct 09, 2010 9:32 PM
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nacoran
2933 posts
Oct 09, 2010
10:02 PM
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Dan, that's good advice. I can pick out the melody for songs I can sing. If I have to think of the melody for the song AND figure out on harmonica at the same time I'm pretty much sunk. Singing the harp parts might just turn you into a jazz vocalist.
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GamblersHand
224 posts
Oct 10, 2010
4:15 AM
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Could be wrong but I think Tony Glover's "blues harp songbook" has a transcription of Standing Around Crying
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Philippe
10 posts
Oct 10, 2010
7:27 PM
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I'm actually working on playing "Baby Please Don't Go" (C harp) and "Standin' Around Cryin'" (Bb harp) right now because I really need to practice tunes and not just licks!
The others said to figure it out by listening to the song and not by tabs. I couldn't agree more. I never really liked tabs because it's impossible to convey all the important subtleties.
Just tackle one at a time and I am sure you will pick up on the melody. I listen for the 2, 3, and 4 draws which are blatantly obvious when bent and work from there.
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