Re: [Harp-L] Finding the Position - "Summertime"

[Ken Hildebrand <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I like playing 'Summertime' on a Lee Oskar Natural
Minor harp, usually a lower keyed one like an Em.

I start out on 6 blow (6B 5B 6B would sound out
SUM-ER-TIME)... You can pretty much figure it out by
ear from there... The part 'So hush little baby...
don't you cry' is played: 2D 3D 2D 3D 4B 5B 6B 5D 5B
5B 4B.

No bends, OB's, or OD'd !

I've always figured this was 1st postion on a LO NM
harp (so on an Em labeled harp, it would be Am).

Similarly, you can go right into the song "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home" (start on 3B)... I will sometimes
end "Summertime" with an ending lick from "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home".

Try it !

Ken H

--- Mike Snowden <mike.snowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been dabbling more with a natural minor harp,
> and I got the old classic
> "Summertime" into my head  I tried this a while back
> on a standard Richter,
> and I couldn't get it to work then, but this time I
> got the idea to try a
> "Natural Minor".  So I picked up and played by
> ear....  Starting on 7 blow
> seems to work really quite well.  If I could
> bend/overblow better, then
> starting on 4-draw potentially feels bluesier, but
> some of the steps at the
> end of the verse are much harder.  I have the sheet
> music hidden away on the
> shelf, so it's there if I want to see what I've
> forgotten....
> 
> 
> So the question goes, what do other people use? And
> if a Standard Richter,
> what starting position works for you?
> 
>                 Mike
> 
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