Re: [Harp-L] Jam track with tab

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

David Barrett's Classic Chicago Blues Harp has some of this, for example I'm 
Ready and Baby Please Don't Go. Has all you ask as well as two versions of 
the tracks without any harp so you can play right in, as well as versions 
with his harp so you can play along. That latter one has the harp on one 
channel so you can isolate, I think all his examples do. Make sure not to 
get the older version which was just one book/cd, get the newer version 
which was split into two books/cds, it has more updated content and more 
sound on the cds.

Or you could get the excellent Sittin In With The Greats play along cd with 
lots of classics played by some of the great musicians in playalong format, 
they leave you 12 and 24 bar sections to solo in, and get the tabs from 
books like David McKelvey's book with blues classics tabbed out for harp.

If there was one book, like McKelvey's, that had all of those classics he 
has in there with an accompanying CD that had them in 'straight' form and 
then one without harp (or harp on a channel that I could isolate) believe me 
I and others would buy it in a hearbeat. Doesn't even have to be the 
original classic by little walter, SBW's, or whomever, just as long as they 
are good professional renditions. Probably get into licensing issues there 
though, I bet.

Best you can do for now (although I recommend Barrett's Classic Chicago 
Blues Harp book/cd since it teaches you so much of this in other exercises, 
etc along with David's great playing on the tracks, which can be isolated 
left/right channel) is to get McKelvey's book and the actual recordings of 
the classics on CDs. Those wont' have the channel isolation, but you can 
always turn up sufficiently to play 'over' the original harp, or that tricky 
business of getting your levels just right so you can hear yours *and* the 
original harp to see if you are on or off.

PS get the Amazing Slow Downer as well, it's absolutely invaluable to 
slowing down, isolating this stuff. Although I'm still looking for the best 
setting with that to isolate the harp stuff so I can catch some of the notes 
with Bend-O-Meter.

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dina Janzen" <dlj@xxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Jam track with tab


> I am looking for an instruction book and CD that-
> Has blues harmonica classics in tab
> Has recordings of the songs with harmonica and accompaniment
> Has the harmonica on one channel so it can be silenced using the stereo 
> balance control.
>
> Thanks-
> Jim
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