Re: [Harp-L] Ragtime harmonica / Walnut Valley Festival?

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

A few years ago, I made an arrangement of Joplin's "The Entertainer"  for 
guitar and chromatic harmonica.  I used the piano music as a starting point 
and arrranged the left-hand part for the guitar and the right-hand part for 
the chromatic.  My purpose was to play both parts solo using the 
Hands-Free-Chromatic on a holder.  However, the arrangement would also be 
suitable for a guitar and harmonica (or any C instrument) duet.

It seems to me that it would be exceedingly difficult to play on a diatonic 
because it is very chromatic with many accidentals and modulations between 
the keys of C and F.  My arrangement has the harmonica part in standard 
notation on the upper treble-clef staff.  The guitar part is also in 
standard notation on a lower treble-clef staff.  I tried to remain as 
faithful to the original piano arrangement as the limitations of the 
instruments and my chops would allow.

I performed it at open-mic at SPAH06 and at the Garden State.  In both cases 
the audiences were very small so probably very few remember.

I can email a copy to anyone interested.  Email requests to me off-list.

Vern







Visit my harmonica website www.Hands-Free-Chromatic.7p.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Anderson" <dandyd55@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Ragtime harmonica / Walnut Valley Festival?


> Phil Lloyd mentioned ragtime music on the harmonica and I thought I'd 
> chime
> in
> with a tune that I'm workin out.  It's called "Russian Rag" and was 
> written
> in 1918
> and based on a famous prelude by Rachmaninoff.  I met Todd Hallawell (a
> great
> fingerstyle guitarist), last year,  He plays it and challenged me to play 
> it
> on my diatonic.
>
> The first two sections are in D minor which works out well on a C.  The
> "trio" section,
> where it get's "raggy", is in F major which works out well again.   Takes
> quite a few OBs and an OD but.... it's a challenge....  You can find the
> chart and mp3/midi  and many others at this link:
>
> http://parlorsongs.com/issues/1999-6/jun99feature.asp
>
> If anyone from the list is going to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield
> Kansas this year, drop me an email and we can get together and play/chat.
> It's a very harp friendly "bluegrass" festival where I have jammed with a
> variety of groups containing instruments such as guitar/banjo/mandolin,
> sax,clarinet, flute, pennywhistle,and trombone, but not all at once.  I
> especially like the "jazz standards" jam!
>
> later...
>
> dick anderson
> Loveland Colorado
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