"Born in Chicago": two choruses of a 12-bar blues by the Butterfield Blues Band (intro and solo), appropriate for ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE players and INTERMEDIATE players unafraid of a challenge.
Harp: D Video: www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1727835-Documents-eBooks-Music-Tutorials Tab (intro): www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1727833-Documents-eBooks-Music-Tutorials Tab (solo): www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1727834-Documents-eBooks-Music-Tutorials
Hat's off to you again, Hakan, for taking the time and going through the drudgery. I think an important part of the lesson is when you say we don't have to play it "exactly" the way Butterfield did...the object is to understand what he's doing. Many times I take a lesson like this and modify licks to either fit my preference or fit within my technical abilities.
By the way, upon visiting Pat Missin's site a couple years ago, I checked out his suggestions for funding the site. It starts out with "buy me a coffee" for a buck. Then "buy me a piece of pizza" for maybe two bucks, and it goes on. I have taken to sending guys like Pat, Adam and Ronnie Shellist ten bucks from time to time when I get something from their free videos. I'm not a wealthy man, but I feel ten bucks has the same impact as a "thank-you" card. I wonder if you have a site that supports, say, PayPal donations and whether you offer Skype lessons.
Adam, I just tried to buy your Born in Chicago offering (and Tequila) and was unable to do so. I want to eliminate the possibility of any friction here, although I don't expect any...still, it IS your site. Anyway, I'll try again when I'm less intoxicated.
Noticing the tile in the background for that great natural reverb. It brought me back to when I very first started playing and was fresh out of high school. I'd hooked up with this guitar player who had been sent to a special state school for incorrigible teens. Really good guitar player for his age but messed up. He'd cut class and we'd meet up in the boys toilets where we'd jam. Got that same reverb going on. Word quickly spread and we got a good crowd in there until staff busted us.
My guitar player friend was being raised by a one armed alcoholic grandmother. During his parents divorce neither parent showed up at the custody hearing. Grandma used to beat him and his younger sister with a coat hanger. Now there was some blues. ---------- LSC
FMWoodeye, Thanks for your comments. I have always listened to Paul Butterfield. But these lessons also force me to study more deeper his harmonica. And it is rewarding! I have not planned to get any site for donations. I am doing this because I think it's fun and it is a great hobby.
Hakan: I love your rock harmonica and your lessons, but I am having one problem getting the most out of them.
THE TABS.
You write them like this, each note with its own separate line:
2 draw 3 draw 4 draw bend 4-5 draw vibrato
It takes up so much screen space. If I'm looking at the video, I can only see 5 out of the 13 phrases. It makes it very difficult to follow along with the videos.
It would help me, and probably many others, enjoy your lessons if you wrote the tabs in an abbreviated fashion, so each phrase gets its own line (or even multiple phrases per line), and I can see the video and simultaneously see most or all of the tab.
Please consider doing this for the next tab! I really want to enjoy these lessons but the tabs make it much harder than it has to be.
Last Edited by on Feb 06, 2012 9:37 PM
I sure put some time in it, but I did it because it was fun so it's OK. And I know there are other ways of writing tabs, so I will use that method next time. Thanks for suggesting that! It could be nice to quit some of my old habits...
You obviously do put a lot of time into this and really care about making the best lessons you can. I think this style of tabbing will make the lessons better with very little additional effort on your part. (It's a lot less typing!)
