Re: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:33 AM, michael rubin wrote:

> Winslow,
> Why go looking for a solution that doesn't have a problem?  Because I
> am teaching my students about resources.

WOW Michael, that's exactly what I think the lists should be. The wonderful resources that they are. (Thank God). I was just thinking the other day that if a body were to come on the lists (like I did about 11 years ago), even a village cretin like myself, could have written a Ken Burns style 986 page book on harmonica by now and not even scratched the surface. 

> He had an idea.

A GOOD idea. :)

>  I said, that's possible, let's see what the internet
> world thinks.  And we sent the question to harp-l and MBH.  It has
> less to do with truly figuring out what Stevie is doing and more to do
> with there being a world of resources through people like yourself on
> the net.  Almost anytime I start an email with "a student wonders"
> that is what I am doing.

A-Haaa, the ole "I have this friend" ploy......  lololol 
joey


> 
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Nope. Slim is right. It's recorded on a four-octave C harmonica with no tape magic or anything else. And no need for it.
>> 
>> 
>> All the ornaments work and lie easily if played in G on a  C harmonica. Every single one. Some of them are slightly more awkward if transposed up a fourth played in C instead of in G. Anad why would you plays something a fourth up and then transpose it down a fourth if it were easy enough not to bother?
>> 
>> 
>> Stevie plays the high D - the highest note on a C chromatic and it's clear that he's doing for that special slide-in high D. (that rules out a G harmonica.)
>> 
>> 
>> Stevie's normal instrument for recording has always been a four-octave chromatic in C.
>> 
>> Recording it in C and the changing the pitch by a perfect fourth downward to put it in G would sound really, really, weird. Really, really, really weird. LIke underwater, slow motion on asylum-strength tranquilizing drugs kind of weird.
>> 
>> 
>> Why go looking for a solution that doesn't have a problem?
>> 
>> Winslow
>> 
>> 
>> Winslow Yerxa
>> Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
>> Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
>> Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
>> Columnist, harmonicasessions.com
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:59 PM
>> Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question
>> 
>> Our new idea is that he recorded on a C and the engineer slowed to song to G.
>> Michael Rubin
>> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:26 PM, michael rubin
>> <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Working on Ruby with a student on a C chromatic.  He has a band that
>>> is playing in the key of C, but Stevie is playing in the key of G.
>>> When my student used the amazing slow downer to transpose up to the
>>> key of C, he noticed that all of the trill button in/out effects
>>> continued to work.  When we played in the key of G on a C chromatic,
>>> we needed a sixteen hole chrome to get the full range of the song.
>>> But when transposed, the entire song fit on a 12 hole chrome.  Is it
>>> possible that Stevie played this song on a G chromatic?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael Rubin
>>> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
>>> 
>> 
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