Re: [Harp-L] Love Sick Blues

[Philharpn@xxxxxxx]

Here is   MusicNotes download site which offers a fake book style version. 
You will need to convert the music notation to harp tab -- but the good part 
is that you get this leadsheet just about as fast as your computer printer 
can print it out. Also, you can print the first page free -- to see what the 
final product will look like.

The leadsheet download in the key of G costs $5.25 unless you are a member 
of the digital club price ($4.73). You need a free program called Scorch to 
hear a brief section of the song. You can change the key if you want before 
you download (print out the sheet music on your own computer).

The notation consists of melody line with chord names G D7 C E7 A7 B7 Em 
above the notes and   first postion (cowboy chords) guitar chord boxes below 
the title on the first page. There is also guitar tablature below the music 
notation. 

Even if you don't read music or even plan to learn (a 5 minute process) 
having the sheet music in front of you helps with the timing (the beats).   
This song is 4/4 (4 quarter notes per bar) mostly. But there is a 2/4 bar "baby 
said good-" that you might not figure out otherwise.

 You must figure out your own harmonica tablature by deciding what 
position/key of harp you want to play it on.   You can use the Lee Oskar harp layout 
sheets (from the Lee Oskar web site) to figure out where the notes are. 
Another web site shows harp layouts and notation for all 12 keys. (I have used 
it for my Harmonica 101 classes when I show them how to make their own tabs 
from sheet music.) 

We simply find the key of G diatonic layout among the 12 keys and match up 
the notes on the layout sheet with those on the sheet music you just 
downloaded.

YES I KNOW THIS IS GUITAR TABLTURE. If you don't play guitar, ignore the 
guitar tablature.

This process may sound like a real pain in the neck compared to having 
someone hand you a harmonica tab all ready to go. But at least you'll know that 
there are no missing notes or wrong notes, which is usually what you get 
when you download harp tab. 

Of course the downside of making your own tab is that you might 
accidentally teach yourself how to read music and then you won't have to tab out every 
note, just play them.

Granted, buying individual songs -- as downloads or as individual sheet 
music -- is the expensive way to collect songs. Buying a folio (book of songs) 
is much cheaper; buying a fakebook of category songs (Country Fakebook, 
Broadway Fakebook) is cheaper yet.

Nowadays just about any blues song is available in fakebook format or piano 
notation in a book.

BTW this tune comes from a book. If you want more songs, it's cheaper to 
buy the book. Check amazon for a quick rundown on Hank William's songbooks.

Hope this helps.
Phil




In a message dated 11/1/10 11:07:39 PM, Cahebay@xxxxxxx writes:


> 
> Can not find Hank Williams "Love sick blues" harp tabs anywhere
> I really do not have much more hair left to pull out.
> Regards
> Mark
> 
>