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interesting harmonica tab system, 1920s style
interesting harmonica tab system, 1920s style
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1177 posts
Jun 22, 2012
1:15 PM
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With everything that happened, I forgot to post last week's history of the week. It's a harmonica tab system invented by Sam Perry back in the 1920s. Perry was formerly educated in Europe's finest music academies, was a fancy concert pianist who toured Europe, wrote scores for movies in Hollywood. He's the last guy you'd think would invent a tab system, but he did.
Connor Frontera, Young Harmonica All-Star, suggested flipping it from vertical to horizontal, so I tabbed out Amazing Grace both ways. I also added some stuff to it to keep track of time.
Sam Perry Tablature, 1920s style
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Aussiesucker
1155 posts
Jun 22, 2012
1:47 PM
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Interesting how many different styles of tabbing are used. Personally I really hate tabs & have always been able to pick up most tunes easily by ear. Does that mean I can always play them....no!
I am enrolled at the Harmonica Academy & have had to use tabs for a lot of the fast fiddle tunes which don't have lyrics. A combination of intense listening + tabs was necessary with some tunes.
Personally I could never follow tabs fast enough as there always appeared too much information to take in and the way my brain was wired this information gave me only lots of singular single notes ie if that makes sense?
Instead of notes like 3Dbb 0r -3bb I simply put the blow notes in black type & the draw notes in red with bends indicated by ' or " or "'. I printed in very large font and hung it on a wall at head height. It might not be original although I have not seen or read of it elsewhere? But, my tabs enabled me to process the information a lot lot quicker. Sort of like STOP GO & BRAKE.
Incidentally, if I had had to cope with the Sam Perry method I think my harps would have stayed in the cupboard. Also I find Adams tabbing method impossible to follow but by simplifying to my method + repetitive listening I can learn the stuff that I want to play.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1180 posts
Jun 22, 2012
2:11 PM
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The Perry method is hard mostly because I think you would be reading them upside down in Oz, lol.;)
I prefer sheet music to tabs, myself.
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David
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At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong.
R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
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Last Edited by on Jun 22, 2012 2:12 PM
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Aussiesucker
1156 posts
Jun 22, 2012
8:01 PM
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David I read your post a day earlier than you sent it! We are wide awake and a day in front even though we are upside down. LOL(:
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