This is the version of Rollin' I was talking about in an earlier thread. The guy who made this tuition tape is called Scott 'Harpo' McCloskey. I don't know if he's still around or not. If anyone has any idea, it'd be great to hear about him.
This section gives a slow version plus an uptempo version with some nice 'fiddle' playing at the end.
Is this the song you thought he might using the flat 7 draw tuning that Todd uses? He's actually using just a regular richter tuned harp. But he does start playing fairly fast at the end, so I can understand why it was difficult to pick out exactly what he was doing. I can hear him play the major third on the 7 draw, so the 7 hole draw definately hasn't been flatted.
That actually seems like a pretty neat beginner's book, harp, and tape set. Usually those sets that come with a cheap harp are pretty lame. Ussually they just teach a few boring simple folk tunes in first position, and they leave a lot of people thinking that that's all you can really do with a harmonica. This set, on the other hand, looks like it teaches you at least one cool second position tune that uses bending.
Last Edited by on Apr 12, 2011 4:02 AM
Yes, this is the track I was talking about. Thinking back I remember recording a copy for a friend back in 1998, but the last time I studied from this tape was in 1988, so I'm happy to be wrong. I do remember trying to play this, but the 'fiddle' part wasn't notated in the instruction leaflet and for a beginner it wasn't possible at that time to learn it.
Hey, but now we have Audacity and can slow stuff down! I might try and learn it now.
Thanks for posting that Steve! Yep, like REM said, that's just a standard tuned harp. He seems to be a pretty good country style player. Sounds like he was influenced by Charlie McCoy.
If you are able to slow this down and learn these Charlie McCoy style patterns, they will help you later on for blues too.
charlie mcCoy has wonderful instructional material too.
he plays a lot of second pos. really fast on his records. blues harp technique w/ melodies, bridges, choruses,etc. one of my biggest influences. ----------
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