Re: [Harp-L] Just The Way You Are Billy Joel




I Had to sing it in a wedding...and dont want to play with a damn recorded
track...Anyone knows..if i can play harmonica on it...and what key should i
use

I don't have an answer to this question, but it sounds like you don't like the tune much.


If that's so, I recommend you work on it double-hard. You may wind up respecting, if not liking the tune.

A few years ago I was asked to play "Lara's Tune" at the burial of someone I liked alot. I had always found the tune loathesome, but I was doing this for a family of people that I loved, so I approached it with the seriousness I'd use if I ever attempted to learn a Bach Cello sonata.

I worked on the overall piece, then on each phrase and then on articulations and dynamics until I turned it into a story that got people at the burial crying. I wound up with a great respect for the tune.

Not that I ever played it again.

K




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