I used the 'Texas Shuffle' track off the Ultimate Blues Jam Tracks for this one. Anyone know what's going on with the chord changes at the end of each 12 bars? I kind of bluffed my way through those, but I'd like to know how to match the chords properly.
EDIT: I got it wrong above - it's a Jimi Lee backing track
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Lovely work again Jodan! You always manage to keep it fresh and interesting with the varying colour and shades you use in your playing (I especially liked around the 1 min 30 mark). BTW if you were bluffing, remind me never to play you at poker. .__. (°,°) /)_) ” “ Grey Owl YouTube Grey Owl Abstract Photos
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My theory is not the greatest in the world so I may not be technically accurate but I'm pretty sure what's happening is (from the top using numbering)1-4-1-4-1-5-6-5-1. There's some passing chords being used in the body but for the end of the sequence I think basically that's it. It's just sliding up a half step from the 5 to the 6 then back down again. The 5-6-5-1 is used on Little Sister as well, if that gives you a reference.
@Jordan: At about 2:20 you get up into the high register for a little bit. If you wanted to linger there for a little longer, you could work off this scale and without hitting any bad notes: 6B 6D 7D 7B 8D 8B 9D 9B. Try working from the top down and move around that scale and I think you will find it fits well and will sound good with the other things you are doing. It has a name, but but just try it and see what you think.
You observe that the chords you played at the end of the tune didn't fit perfectly. There's single notes on the harp that WOULD fit, but i don't think you have any chords available to play on the harp that would fit those chords the guitar is playing at the end of this tune. I'm not trying to be argumentative or negative about this, so please don't take it that way, but this is a decent example of why i sometimes say you can fit harp to a wider range of material if you don't concentrate on playing chords. The guitar players have a lot of chords available to them that fit material we are able to play on but which won't fit with the chords we happen to have on the harp. So...sometimes playing fewer chords and focusing on appropriately selected single notes works better in those circumstances.
Nice groove! I really like your stuff. You always have great chordal work and nice lowend bends with superb intonation and timbre. The part at 2:20 got me a little surprised, it really cuts away from the rest of the song. Not in a bad way, mind. I've listened to it a few times and I seem to hear a 6 OB at 2:26 when you disengage. I can't remember hearing you Ob in your other videos. Sounds good!
Thanks guys. @hvyj - I haven't had chance to try out the scale yet, but I will - thanks for that. With the chords, what I meant was I'd like to know which single notes fit over the jam track chords, not which chords I could play - LSC said the track shifted up a half step towards the end, so I guess moving up a half step from where I am on the harp would work? I seem to remember a Budda video about Stormy Monday where he demonstrated that.
@Pistolcat Yeah, I got a bit carried away on that bit! Basically, it just became an excuse to try out a repeating pattern I heard recently on an RJ Mischo track. And it was a 6 overblow, though rather strangulated. I can't do them with any consistency though. On some harps I have to pucker to get them, on others (like this one) I can only seem to get it tongue blocked, and on some I can't get the 6 at all. I can get an occasional 4 or 5 overblow on some harps but I don't really know what to do with them. I got a hole 1 overblow about a year ago and have never been able to get it again!
Man your getting good,I hadnt had a chance to hear anything from you in a few months ,damn your laying it down nice,Do you practice 8 hours a day,cause you sound like you do,Are you still with David Barrett?Nice work endeed;-) ---------- Hobostubs
I hear D. Barrett influence thrown in there too...No advice at the moment on your tune, it sounded okay lettin the band breathe through the last few bars. As you know there are a million ways you could arrange that tune as far as your improvisational ideals. What I like to do especially with Jimmi Lees BT's is create a CD on Audacity in every key. So, if/when you get some time, here's an ideal - upload that track into Audacity and there is a tool to change the key and make it in 12 different keys, burn those to a Cd and then it makes learning that groove a lot more enjoyable, because now you can play it using a different harmonica each time the song ends, there are 11 more versions of it playing next, only in different keys. So by the time your finished playing the Cd, you have played that particular BT quite awhile and had the chance to really explore your ideas. And depending on the order you burn the Cd, you can dictate which keyed harp is used next. For example...I have mine arranged so the first harp I use is a "D" then "Db" "E" "Eb" "F" "F#" "G" "Ab" "A" "Bb" "B" "C" So you also get to play with all your harps to the tune and many times you'll be pleasantly surprised by the results that one key gives you too the next,and of course experiment with multiple positions as well as breakin the Chromatic out and goin to town,. Anyhoo - way to blow your horn, nice groovy little shuffle...
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