Re: [Harp-L] Autumn Leaves

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Always a good idea to learn to play the tune properly; but playing the tune well is one thing, while taking a decent solo over the changes, particularly on the diatonic, is entirely another.
RD

>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 22/11/2007 9:07 >>>
I beg to differ.

Check out these performances of the original French song, "Les feuilles
mortes" -

by Yves Montand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwJclybPhM 

and Juliette Greco (main melody starting about 1:42 after the
recitative):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGNRQzzfaE 

The section in question contains no chromatic-scale notes that would
require an overblow in fourth position. In A minor, Montand's would be
D (draw 4) for "but", E (Blow 5) for "I", and F (Draw 5) for "miss".
Greco's is a bit more florid but still requires no overbends.

Winslow

--- George Brooks <gbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Martin is right.  I don't know the tune and Martin's memory is
> perfect. 
>   On the line "But I miss you most of all...", I played "But" and "I"
> as 
> the same note.  I found the version Martin posted about, and the
> "But" 
> is a half step below the "I" and thus requires the 4OB.  Mea culpa,
> and 
> sorry for any confusion.  You can always play the song the way I used
> 
> to play it ("But" and "I" both played as 5 blow), but to play the
> song 
> correctly requires the OB.
> 
> George 
> 
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