In order to help our friend Frank on his quest and distract him from posting more questions about buying cheap harps I have started this thread.
I would like to help him, so I have decided to do some research for him and try to find him some songs to learn in his genre.
@all MBH members; please refrain from bashing Frank on this thread. If you have no interest in helping him then this thread is not for you. If you have something to add that my help him play some Basic Biker Bar harp then feel free to add something.
Frank try this
How to do it
I know it is in French but I'm sure you can figure it out with the tabs
Sweet thread Stickman. Now that ya'll are helping me break my bad habit of buying cheap harps a thread like this will help me put the ones I do have to good use. I really do appreciate it. :)
O.K. Frank Put your undiagnosed OCD to good use and practice some of these until you get good at one. Borrow a web cam from a friend (I know you are broke) and post an entry in BYBO
Hey T-Mike with only 108 post you must have started playing about a week ago or so. Therefore I would suggest starting out with a B-radical. It is a very inexpensive harp and if you order one today you could probably be jamming on stage in a biker bar by next Thursday ----------
If your wife keeps burning out the clutch in the Chrysler Lebaron it might be because it is a crap car, but when she keeps blowing it out in your new Bitchin' Camero, Its time for her to learn how to drive.
LOL. I thought about posting that question as a new main topic... but felt I really shouldn't stir up the hornets nest that just seems to be settling out. ;-)
---------- The more I learn about harmonica, the more I learn how much more there is to learn.
If your wife keeps burning out the clutch in the Chrysler Lebaron it might be because it is a crap car, but when she keeps blowing it out in your new Bitchin' Camero, Its time for her to learn how to drive.
That guy doing Sweet Child Of Mine would be swamped with people telling him how much he rocked after that song. How many people would do the same after an accurate rendition of Sonny Boy's "Bye Bye Bird"? One, MAYBE two? Sad hard truth.
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Giving a plug to our host, click on the news and updates and follow the link and purchase the new Crossroads lesson by Adam. Eric Clapton has to qualify as a biker bar artist and hey it's only five bucks.
I don't get it. What's wrong with the guy doing Sweet Child of Mine? It sounds like good music to me, and decent enough harp. Does a harp player need to be as good as Jason Ricci before they get even a parcel of respect?
Respect to the Guns and Rose's guy. The video makes me laugh though. One of those "you can pay me $25 to do your thang and shake your money maker in front of my green screen and I'll give you a music video" places.
@markdc70- been working on "Bye Bye Bird" lately. It was just cool to see someone mentioned it.
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Lol. It sounds like he is trying to do a bad Ozzy Osbourne version of Axl Rose!
Guns and Roses had some of the sweetest melodies in Hard Rock. If all my stuff wasn't stuck on tape I'd still listen to them all the time. Personally I think Sweet Child O' Mine sounds better on the harp played clean though. ---------- Nate Facebook Thread Organizer
"Guns and Roses had some of the sweetest melodies in Hard Rock. If all my stuff wasn't stuck on tape I'd still listen to them all the time. Personally I think Sweet Child O' Mine sounds better on the harp played clean though."
....and in true R'n R fashion, that opening riff that Slash plays on Sweet Child was actually a warm up exercise he used to do during sound check. Axl heard him do it one day and said "what was THAT?"......they ran with it...and the rest, as they say, is Rock and Roll history.
I love those stories.
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