This is one of the first harp songs I tried to learn back in 1968’ish. As I said in Iceman’s recent thread, it drove me nuts because on the top note of the solo Alan Wilson used an altered tuning. It is believed he retuned the 6 draw up a semitone!! I kept thinking ‘where the heck is this note on my harp’.
Anyway this is my take on a short solo which I’ve tabbed out what I’m hearing. I’ve used an overblow on 6 rather than messing around with retuning my harp. Hope it's useful to some folk.
I love those little modulations AW does on the low end.
Slowdown
Someone just asked me about the Flute part in Canned Heat's 'Going up country' another great song but I've never tried the opening flute phrase on harp before.
I'm a bit rusty on the flute now but I've recorded flute first then harp.
I just started diggin into them a lil more. For years the only album i had of theirs was Hooker N Heat. I bought a best of album the other day. I was thinking of learning how to play this. I had heard of the heat tuning before. Would be easy enough to do with an extra harp.
Good stuff Owl. I dig it.
The country flute and harp part is awsome. I bet with a bit of playing around with effects you could make the harp sound very close to the flute. Maybe. Might be fun to try. ---------- "Trust Those Who Seek The Truth. Doubt Those Who Say They Have Found It."
Cheers Killa. Yeah I tried a tight cup with that but the harp overtones still came singing through. I’m not that up on effects but I agree it would be nice to get a flute type sound on the harp. I have a Vox DA5 amp with effects so I could try it amplified with a tight cup using one of the Blues settings maybe
It just sounds so 'beginerish' to me, soz but thats the way It sounds. In 2014 whats left of the band came to Sydney and sounded great with a harp and seemingly bugger all effects, Kim Wilson was also there, ya Kimbo!!!
Last Edited by Steamrollin Stan on Feb 24, 2016 3:00 AM
