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Teeny Weeny Bit
Teeny Weeny Bit
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bubberbeefalo
42 posts
Oct 28, 2011
10:01 AM
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Click on arrow to listen on myspace to stuff by Rick Boyd and our band The North End Rhythm Kings Teeny Weeny Bit by Rick Boyd
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bubberbeefalo
43 posts
Oct 29, 2011
1:27 PM
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ok try again
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clamsharpplayer
119 posts
Oct 29, 2011
3:21 PM
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Does anyone know the first harp player to do this song?
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hvyj
1914 posts
Oct 30, 2011
6:52 AM
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Nice slow tempo groove on this recording. The band sounds great, but the harp player never plays the head--not even once. He just screws around vamping off of the head, but never actually plays the head note-for-note.
Now, on this tune it can be be tough to take the head through all 3 chord changes. But at least playing it on the I is NBD--not technically difficult, but it does take some discipline. IMHO, to be effective a harp player has to anchor any solo on this tune with playing the signature riff from the head on at least one chord change. If you don't start with the head, that's ok, but then you need to return to it in order to anchor the solo. Otherwise, IMHO, the player is just screwing around.
I'm not big on playing any tune "just like the record" but certain tunes have signature passages and if you don't play that passage note-for-note, you're not actually playing the tune.
This player gets up on the high end for 2 or 3 notes at a time and then moves back down. How cool it would have been if he threw in the signature riff from the head while he was up there, which is very doable. But he just moved right back down without developing any musical ideas in the upper register. Some of the lower and middle register licks sounded very cool but IMHO the soloing and filling AS A WHOLE had not enough coherence in relation to the tune--which, btw, is a GREAT tune for harp. Just my take on it, FWIW.
Last Edited by on Oct 30, 2011 9:05 AM
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ridge
291 posts
Oct 30, 2011
4:07 PM
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Yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat with hvyj. When I hear this song, I just really want to hear the main riff played. I find myself playing it quite frequently.
It's a really good exercise in hitting 2 half step bend and your 3 whole step bend in succession.
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