Killa_Hertz
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Mar 19, 2016
6:04 PM
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Dig it bro. Sounds very cool that way. Amped would be cool also. But i like the feel of it that way
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MindTheGap
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Mar 20, 2016
1:51 AM
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Thanks folks, and to Mrs Tiggertoo! Listening again this morning, I still think hmmm on the funky notes, but I'm going to make myself like them. I've taken other funky notes to my heart - e.g those blow bends at the top end substituting for draw notes. That's because Charlie Musselwhite plays them.
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Truth2012
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Mar 26, 2016
12:43 AM
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Truth2012
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Mar 26, 2016
9:07 AM
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https://app.box.com/s/zgk79gfj9lyq0dw5raox2bgeitmd7ayf
Not sure if this will work but I've tried to upload a sample of me playing the beginning of St. Louis Blues.
Not sure how the overblow sounds at the end!
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Killa_Hertz
825 posts
Mar 26, 2016
1:16 PM
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Truth .... you have to right click the sound file on the box website. If using your phone make sure you user desktop version of the site. Right click the sound file. Goto share .... embed widget ... copy paste that. It will be much longer than that.
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Truth2012
28 posts
Mar 26, 2016
2:56 PM
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Kh
Can't seem to get it to work. Tried the full site with the same result. Maybe it's this iPhone.
I think the time I get the hang of technology I won't need the help to learn the harmonica! ??
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Killa_Hertz
832 posts
Mar 26, 2016
5:37 PM
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You have to HOLD the file till the menu pops up. Select... "SHARE".... "EMBED WIDGET" ... the link you copy will start with "iframe src=" it must be from the menu NOT from the button up top
Took me a while to figure out too. Hope that helps bro.
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Truth2012
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Mar 26, 2016
11:49 PM
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Truth2012
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Mar 26, 2016
11:52 PM
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Done it!!!!!!
Thanks KH
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MindTheGap
1343 posts
Mar 27, 2016
12:38 AM
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Truth - Yeh! And nice work. I like the OBs at the end. I mean I subjectively like the sound of them. And you got them out in rhythm.
It's a good exercise in those bends, and they sounded really good too e.g. the classic 2'' 2' 3'' 2' 1 phrase around 23s.
I may be wrong but I think that ~7s you play an unbent 3D and that needs to be bent down a little. Not sure if it needs a blue 3rd there or actually a minor 3rd.
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Truth2012
31 posts
Mar 27, 2016
12:46 AM
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Thanks MTG
Yeah think your right about a couple of the 3d's. I played that against my bending app and they were not quite down enough.
When I've got it all down I will speed it up a little and try and play the whole song. I'm trying to make this song a bit of a show piece, if that's ever possible!!
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harpsquealer
12 posts
Mar 27, 2016
1:21 AM
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I liked your playing. You did a good job.
I really have not had much time to practice these past few weeks or to post on the forums, but in regards to TB, I have found that though it is difficult to get the hang of, there is a lot to work with when messing around with melodies. The techniques that are possible open the breadth of the harmonica and give it a lot more variety. I guess that there's a ton more frustration up front, but I think that it is quite rewarding to start to reap those long hours of frustration. In terms of TB bending, it's difficult but not impossible. I still can't hit the 1 draw bend yet :/
I don't want want to hijack the thread's direction, I just want to comment on the embouchure discussion.
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Killa_Hertz
837 posts
Mar 27, 2016
7:40 AM
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Harpsquealer. .. TB is tough. I'm learning it in chunks. Letting it develop naturally kindof. Learning to bend in a different way is tough.
Truth ... Gald you got it working. I love being able to share sound clips. Wish ide been doing it all along.
St.Louis sounds like it could be tough in its own way. Sounds pretty good. The OB blended in pretty well. Dig it.
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Tiggertoo1962
58 posts
Mar 29, 2016
10:23 AM
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Not really something I'm working on, rather something that just popped up.
I was messing about with my looper, just comping on an A harp with the mic coming through my DA5 to see what kind of sound I could get. Thought the harp sounded pretty good (well, to my old ears anyway) and listening to the playback of the guitar and harp, I thought "I wonder if I can get Sweet Home Chicago to fit in there?"
Tried it on the A harp, but not being able to overblow, blow bend, or whatever you have to do to get a G in the middle octave, I was missing a note. Couldn't do it on the bottom octave either, cos the harp doesn't go low enough, so I messed with a couple of harps til I eventually got it - more or less - on a D. If I'm not mistaken, this must be my first attempt at 3rd position. Must admit, there are a few more bends in there than I'm really comfortable with, but it's all good practice.
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MindTheGap
1359 posts
Mar 29, 2016
11:13 AM
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Nice one! 3rd position - excellent. Good ensemble sound. And what a great job with those bends on the V chord.
In fact you've really inspired me there. Coz I've been listening to a lot of 3rd position and I don't think I've heard anyone play the 4' as there - but it's a great note choice. I've just been trying it out.
I'm having that one. Thanks!
EDIT here it is the library. Forever known as "Tiggertoo V start w 4'". When I'm rich and famous you can have a cut :) It's not plagiarism if you quote your sources??
Edit2: At 18s I'm sketching the whole V chord using 3'' 4' 5+ 6+. This is very useful. It's the same as 2nd position 1 2' 3'' 4+ which I hear a lot.
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Killa_Hertz
872 posts
Mar 29, 2016
5:31 PM
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Tigger ... sounded good man. Really makes me want to learn that song.
I made a pretty crazy, all harp, loop like that. Actually was the first loop i made. Mine went in an entirely different direction. Maybe ill upload it some day.
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Tiggertoo1962
62 posts
Mar 30, 2016
1:18 AM
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Must admit, I spent about 10 minutes trying to get those V chord bends down before I tried dubbing it in. Even then, I'm not quite satisfied with the hold on the 3 '' at around 15 secs, as it's a bit off, but that'll come with practice.
Would you mind enlightening me on what you reckon I'm doing with the 4' that's different, MTG? I've been trying to figure it out, but I'm just playing what I hear in my head (or more accurately, memory), so I must be missing something.
Absolutely LOVE that 3'' 4' 5+ 6+ over the V chord. Reckon it'll take me a while to nail it as clean as you have it there, but definitely another good one to stick in the box of tricks ;)
Killa - c'mon buddy, you've started uploading stuff already, so there "ain't no stoppin' us now" as they say. You have the loop sitting there waiting, all you have to do is paste & copy ;)
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Killa_Hertz
876 posts
Mar 30, 2016
3:09 AM
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Hah. Alright ill put it up this afternoon.
As far as the 3". Its a tough one to sustain and make sound good sometimes.
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MindTheGap
1361 posts
Mar 30, 2016
6:53 AM
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Tiggertoo - your bends sound good to me, I was following your lead in fact. That's the 3'' for you.
Re the 4' - simply you were playing it right, and in the right place! So I looked it up and it's the major 3rd of the V chord in 3rd pos (well, of course :)). I believe the blues-way to play a 4' in 2nd position is often to floor it to well below that pitch (Superbee's pet peeve) but when it's part of a tune like this it needs to be on pitch, as you did.
I've been doing a lot on 3rd position - and just recently specifically on single-note stuff at the low end, and neither noticed this, or thought of it for myself. Maybe now you've played it, I'll go back and find it all over :)
That's why I keep coming back to MBH, despite all the obvious difficulties, to pick up bits of inspiration like this. Otherwise I get a bit tramlined.
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Killa_Hertz
878 posts
Mar 30, 2016
7:36 AM
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I hear you MTG. I love this forum. I pick up lil things everyday. And sometimes HUGE things. Eg. The vibrato thread in main forum. I had no idea that what i was doing wad actually tremelo.
MTG. Suggestion. The 145 chord thread i started in the main forum is FULL of great info. Maybe a good one to add to your list.
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MindTheGap
1364 posts
Mar 30, 2016
8:37 AM
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Good idea, I've added it. My 2 cents would be that learning all the note names, and all the scales and chords so you can recall them is a long-term project, unless you are Mr Memory. It's a task even on one harp.
While you are enjoying doing that, something for right now would be to exploit the fact the all the blow notes are IV-chord tones. It may sound simplistic, but it's definitely 'theory'! If you play a lick you like over the I chord, then you can often modify one note from draw to blow, and it immediately signals 'IV CHORD'. You hear it all the time from the harp masters.
In fact you're doing it already, I can hear it. It's good when the theory and your ear match up, otherwise it's all a bit dry. Once you are conscious of it, you can do more with it. E.g. at the top end you can now safely use the nice expressive blow bend notes when the IV pops up. Loads of people use this to go up top at that point.
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Killa_Hertz
883 posts
Mar 30, 2016
10:08 AM
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That's one of the main reasons for learning it. I seem to be playing right, but im just playing by ear. And it's mostly just mimicking. I don't wanna be a playing parrot. .. lol. I want to KNOW why I'm playing the notes im playing. But more importantly what other notes i could be playing.
I do want to get up to the top end more.
As you said its hard enough on one harp to learn all this stuff. So that's what i have planned. Learn the C harp in 2nd position inside out n backwards. Then leverage my knowledge to 3rd pos. Then leverage my C harp knowledge to the A. Etc.
We ll see if it works. N how long it really takes. I suspect, best case scenario, a couple of months. (Just for the C )
Anyone wondering how the chords are made up in the 12 bar blues should really check out the thread ......
"The 1-4-5 .. What notes to play"
There is very good advice and explainations in there. Helped me out a great deal. MTG has also added it to his favorites.
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MindTheGap
1369 posts
Mar 31, 2016
12:18 AM
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Looking at your rate of progress kHz, I bet you'll have it learnt sooner than two months.
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Killa_Hertz
892 posts
Mar 31, 2016
4:34 AM
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Well i think my rate of progress is due to a few things:
1. I have no life
2. I play harmonica constantly (not practice, but PLAY)
3. Listen to great inspiring music constantly.
4. Great Learning Material (via Adam, Ronnie, This Forum. Mostly)
5. I don't really try hard to learn any specific thing. Be it a technique or whathave you. I just play as normal and work in this new thing bit by bit everyday. And that way I never really get frustrated with it. Besides it takes time to perfect a technique anyhow so practicing it all day isn't necessarily going to get you anywhere. It will evolve with you if you let it.
6. Keep it fresh. When things get stale i go back to the beginning and take a slightly different path via a different tradebit lesson, revisit ronnies lessons, youtube.
The point being just keep the momentum going and it ll all work out.
Sorry that turned into more of a post for the listeners than for you MTG. But thanks man. Ill keep plugging away at it. Wish i could be playing right now. But i got get back to work. Lol.
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Tiggertoo1962
64 posts
Mar 31, 2016
10:57 AM
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Suppose that's the thing about playing by ear... if it sounds right you just put it in there and don't worry about why or how ;).
I actually did the rudiments & theory bit some 40-odd years ago when I was learning piano and clarinet, but then I switched to guitar, found out what tabs were, and completely forgot all I knew about musical theory and how to read standard notation. Think it's maybe about time to "jump over my shadow" as they say over here, and get back into it.
MTG - just been trying out your 3rd position 3'' 4' 5+ 6+ part above. Having just scanned it earlier and not put too much thought into it, I hadn't realised what a nice job you were doing on the 2'' with the little upwards slide - mucho impressed. At the very end of the clip, you play a 6 draw, pulling it down to a 6' then going to the 6+. Is there a trick to getting the transition into the 6+ so seamless? Had to listen to it a couple of times til I actually caught you were going from a draw note to a blow.
Killa - where's the promised upload? :P. Sounds to me like you're either working too much, have your head buried in a book on musical theory, or have suddenly got yourself a life :D.
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MindTheGap
1373 posts
Mar 31, 2016
11:47 PM
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Just to say I road-tested your phrase with the band yesterday, and it's a great tool to have in the box. And you see, because we've discussed it here, I'm going to remember it and have it on tap (see other thread about remembering/forgetting phrases to play in the moment).
Re playing by ear, yes and IMO it's the best way to play the bends in tune.
Thanks for the kind words. That 2D bend thing - that came directly from a series of lessons with Todd Parrott who is into playing 3rd position MAJOR. Most 3rd position stuff is introduced as the natural way to play MINOR, but all the notes are there in the bottom octave for either.
The 2D contains the minor 3rd, blue 3rd major 3rd and 4th. So in principle it's as rich pickings as the 3D in 2nd position. The standard 3rd position bottom-octave lick you hear uses 2'' and 3''' on the floor, which is very minor, dark sound.
As for 6 6' 6+. I don't know about smoothness, I'm not consciously doing anything. It's possible the that the touch of reverb gives it a legato sound. But it's an important bit of 3rd position 'theory' that those notes are the same as the much-loved 4 4' 4+ in 2nd position. So I'm on those notes all the time as 'safe' things to play, just like in 2nd.
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Killa_Hertz
902 posts
Apr 01, 2016
5:18 AM
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I been really into James Cotton lately. I started listening to alot of Muddy Waters again. Muddy is also great because you get multiple great harp players in one. Cotton, Butterfield, Walter. Listening to alot of King Bee, Hard Again, Fathers and Sons, etc.
But you can always pick out who's playing by their signature licks. I always loved Cottons Licks, but never really took the time to try and figure them out.
After actually trying to break them down, they seem to just be mostly triplet rythms. But here's a couple i stole out of different songs. You should recognize them right away.
Any idea what he's playing here? Note wise.
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Killa_Hertz
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Apr 01, 2016
5:19 AM
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Killa_Hertz
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Apr 01, 2016
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Killa_Hertz
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Killa_Hertz
906 posts
Apr 01, 2016
5:24 AM
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Theres more i want to find, but keep forgetting to write the songs down that they are in.
These are pretty straight forward. But they are the roots of some of his much longer licks.
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MindTheGap
1378 posts
Apr 01, 2016
5:42 AM
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Nice. I reckon it's along the lines of...
2 / 2'' 2 2'' / 4 5 / 5 4 5/ 4' 4+ 3' / 4+ 3' 2 / 2
Where the '/' is each 1/4 note beat. Starting on beat '3 and'. With loads of inflection e.g. the 2'' goes right up (a bit like my 3rd pos thing) the first 4D is scooped right up. The 4+ is more like chord etc.
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MindTheGap
1379 posts
Apr 01, 2016
5:57 AM
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Ah there's more! I'll let someone else have a go, I don't want to hog all the fun :)
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Killa_Hertz
910 posts
Apr 01, 2016
6:11 AM
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nah go for it MTG. I think ive got alot of it. As I said it seems straight forward note wise. But I just cant seem to get it to sound right. maybe im missing some inflection somewhere. His sound is so big that its probably just my sound vs his. His hard hittin sound is tough to replicate.
I havent put a ton of time in trying to figure this out, but im starting to. So i figured Ide bring yall along for the ride...... lol. n see if I can get some help along the way.
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SuperBee
3557 posts
Apr 01, 2016
6:13 AM
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Too late for me to try listen and transcribe but maybe tomorrow. I am picky ATM...and I saw that mention of butterfield in association with muddy waters...that is not a connection I'd draw, but the point is well made nonetheless.
Little Walter, junior wells, big Walter, James cotton, George smith, Paul Oscher, mojo buford, jerry portnoy, and I'm sure I've missed at least one notable...did Carey Bell have the harp chair at some point?
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SuperBee
3558 posts
Apr 01, 2016
6:18 AM
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And tonight...I've been work on the "love theme" from the godfather.
It's addictive and never-ending. Makes particular use of the 3 3draw bends if played beginning from 3".
Niño Roti is the composer. I must try it on chromatic. I love this music.
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MindTheGap
1380 posts
Apr 01, 2016
6:25 AM
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kHz - If you've got the notes but can't get it to sound like Cotton, then join the club! :) I can't help you with that one :) There is a lot of inflection going on though and it all adds up.
The Godfather theme, yes that's good. If I were to try it, it would be on the chromatic.
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MindTheGap
1382 posts
Apr 01, 2016
10:16 AM
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But they are good licks. I like the ones that dance around the 4 and it's bends. They always sound tricksy and satisfying. Quick difficult to unpick between 4+ and 4' I find.
So, the 2nd one is...
3' 4+ 4' 4+ 3' 4+ 4' 3' 2 2'' 1 1 1
3rd is...
4 5 6+ 5 4' 4+ 3' 4+ 3' 2 2
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Killa_Hertz
912 posts
Apr 01, 2016
10:57 AM
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I dont necessarily have the notes. I THINK i do. But not sure. After work Ill TAB out what ive got n maybe some sound clips n see what yall think.
Yes Tricksy. Thats why when I actually tried to break them down i was suprised how easy they "SEEMED" to be. Because they sound very busy.
What key harps do you assume for each?
I think one of them is on a C# because I cant seem to get to match. I think it was the boogie thing. the third one.
Ill check it out later. I cant play harp at the moment.
I found a few more licks from Cotton I like aswell. Ill try to post them later too.
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MindTheGap
1383 posts
Apr 01, 2016
11:37 AM
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If you like those tricksy licks, have a listen to this. One the first things I came across actually, using that 'Bendometer' app. When I was unpicking the mysteries of which notes bent and where the 'secret' notes lay. What an exciting time I remember.
Right near the start at 8s there is a triplet phrase for a few beats around the 4 and 3 bends.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoK-OmANoj8
The trick is to take a four phrase and repeat it but with a triplet rhythm. That way the beat (and the accent) fall on a different note each time as it cycles round.
Most often you hear it round the 4 and it's bends and it sounds complex and syncopated, but you can apply it to any four note phrase, doesn't even have to be four different notes.
The only problem is resisting the urge to play EVERY phrase like this :)
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MindTheGap
1384 posts
Apr 01, 2016
12:29 PM
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And Keys? I played the last on a D-harp. Sometimes the pitch varies on older records, so can be a bit off.
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Killa_Hertz
915 posts
Apr 01, 2016
1:39 PM
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Ahh you think it could be the record. Maybe in remaster is was tweaked or something?
And how did you figure them out so fast?
Ive been meaning to try to learn these. And hadnt put any time into it really.
But today i spent most of the day trying to work them out in my head listening to them over n over. Playing harp for a few hours in the truck. N just couldn't get em right. The second one gave me the most trouble. I think because it's not a regular pattern that i would use. And it's a bit fast. I need that show downer app.
As far as the first one. That isn't even the specific riff i wanted. But it's like that. It's a bit more high pitch. I find another that's similar, ill post it bellow in another post. Its the same riff, esecially.
I think it goes more like this though:
Lick 1 : 4'4 slap5slap5 slap5slap5 4' 3' 4+ 3' 3' 2 2 (slaps with the 345 chord underneath. what do you think? Listen to the one below aswell)
The second one i think you nailed. I couldn't figure it out. It was too fast.
Third one i got more like:
4'dwah 5 5+ 4' 3' 4+ 3'3' 22 (no?)
Idk .. i could be WAY off, but see what you think.
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Killa_Hertz
916 posts
Apr 01, 2016
1:47 PM
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This isnt EXACTLY it either. I can hear it in my head and is very much like these two, but don't remember what song its in. Cotton has SO much stuff ill just have to come across it by chance. Its kindof a combination of this lick and the first one i posted. But its high pitched like this one.
But i think it's 5 slaps that he uses. Maybe not, but i like it.
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MindTheGap
1385 posts
Apr 01, 2016
2:05 PM
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OK, yes with the slaps and dwahs, and possible 3'' 3' where I've put 3'. I've just sketched out the basic notes, you have to add the embellishments, depth of bends, precise timing. Difficult to annotate those, especially to share. I think in your slap5 sequence you are missing some notes though.
I have the Paul Butterfield tuition CD, and someone has scrupulously annotated ALL his notes with standard notation. It's extraordinary - grace notes all over the place, precise timing 'slips', and practically impossible to follow.
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SuperBee
3560 posts
Apr 01, 2016
4:03 PM
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Good stuff from cotton. I'll have to go work those out later.
I've got this regular garage jam happening. It's very casual but cool because I get to try things and work with my stage gear so that is nice. My chops fell away fairly dramatically after about 6 months of no performance training. In regard to timing and listening to others and such. I was still playing a lot, but just following my own personal interests. So the discipline things we're dropping away.
And I wasn't singing at all. That is slowly coming back also. We only jam every 3 or 4 weeks.
Ah, the godfather theme...I saw a guy play it with lots of hand vibrato so I tried that. Harder than I expected, to play it constantly. I have a tendency to tendinitis from years of slumping at a desk in a cubicle. Or playing Galaga when I was younger. Not sure. Anyway, I can't play any arcade games these days if they require me to do rapid-fire slapping a button and that's what this constant hand vibrato felt like up my arm
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Killa_Hertz
917 posts
Apr 01, 2016
5:12 PM
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Yea mtg ill have to make a sound clip of me doing it. The missing notes are the backround chords, i think anyways. Once ive worked out the bugs ill share n u cansee how far off i am. It sounds better than i have it notated. The #1 riff i mean. Also having listened to it again i think i already had the slap in my head from the other riff. I think the one i posted did sound more like individual notes, but either way they are cool licks. I want to run then all together in a cotton frankenstein luck n see where it goes.
Imma keep my ears or fire some of the other ones i want to learn. Alot of them are exagerated versions of these.
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SuperBee
3564 posts
Apr 01, 2016
9:09 PM
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Heres my 'godfather' diatonic version on A harp, fwiw
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SuperBee
3565 posts
Apr 01, 2016
9:27 PM
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that is literally my first attempt to record it. i can hear the bends need more work. i like that it uses all 3 3 draw bends and the 4', 2" and 1'
all tongue blocked.
now for a chromatic version. not too difficult but with the chrom just have to get used to the idea of playing the next lower note with the slide in rather than bending the note you are playing lower.
here is my first recording of chromatic attempt, complete with stumble/error
thats enough brain stretching for now. i can feel that ive been making it work outside the comfort zone
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MindTheGap
1386 posts
Apr 01, 2016
11:36 PM
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Nice work on both. My purely subjective view is that I prefer the chromatic one, but take that with a big pinch of salt because I simply prefer the sound of the chromatic over the diatonic for actual tunes. That said, I do like the hand tremolo on the diatonic one, and the 3D bends are exemplary.
I wish I could go back and listen to harmonica afresh, without the experience of having played it myself.
The standard way I hear a plaintive harmonica-tune like this is drenched in reverb. Christelle does that. I bet it you did that it would press a whole other set of buttons in the listener. For our purposes, it's great to hear it straight-up.
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MindTheGap
1387 posts
Apr 02, 2016
12:11 AM
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kHz - Re missing notes. Yes you could well be right. Picking up all the ghosts notes is a difficult business.
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