Re: [Harp-L] Blues Birdhead



...oh great... I meant:" If you can speed the track to G, which is where it would have been recorded, then the chord would be C and the OB F"....thats EFF!! sorry!
RD


>>> "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> 25/06/2008 10:35 >>>
I'm always hearing people saying how such and such a note occurs at 2.32 or whatever. Doesn't anyone round here know how to count bars? You start at the beginning and go:"ONE-2-3-4,TWO-2-3-4, THREE-2-3-4, FOUR-2-3-4" all the way up to:"TWELVE-2-3-4". That way you know what chord the note falls on (talking 12 bar blues here)  ie first 4 bars of the twelve are on the root chord, 5th & 6th over the IV chord, 7th & 8th over the I, 9th and 10th over the V or V and IV respectively (depends on the particular tune) and the 11th & 12th on the I (or root) with maybe a V on the last bar if you are repeating.
Very basic info, but I know from teaching that a lot of people do not have it.
I'll say it again: the overblow occurs in the second 12 bar, on the 6th bar on the beat "3 &", or just before you go from the IV chord back to the I.
If the harp is first pos. in F#, then the OB is being played over a B chord, and the note is an E (the same note you'd get by draw bending 3 one semitone.
If you can speed the track to G, which is where it would have been recorded, then the chord would be C and the OB Bb.
RD


>>> "michael rubin" <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> 25/06/2008 3:07 >>>
Okay, this song Mean Low Blues is credited as being recorded in 1929, I
thought the Birdhead recording with an overblow was in 1931.  I listened to
the tune and was not able to distinguish the overblow.    Since the link
provides the time, what minute and second does the overblow occur?  I heard
growl sounds, but it did not seem like overblowing to me.  Ron says the
overblow is on the 4 hole during the growl section.  Having never heard the
tune, I was under the impression the overblow was on 6 blow.
Help anybody?  Winslow?
Thanks,
Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com


On 6/24/08, captron100@xxxxxxx <captron100@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I had a lot of trouble trying to listen to Mean Low Blues from the
> Amazon.com link that Rick sent.
> Finally i discovered that if I scrolled down to the song list, i could
> click the arrow to the left
> of the song title, to enable me to hear it.  It sounds to me like this
> version is in first position
> using an F harp, but it is slow and therefore flat.
> Then harmoniman@comcast sent this link:
> http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/music/1929-Mean_Low_Blues.html ,
> which is the full song. This
> seems to be in F# in first position, except that there is a low note that
> isn't on my F# harp (about
> 9/10th of the way thru the song).
> Whatever, this song is a workout in both first or second position,
> entailing lots of
> opportunities to use OB's.  Fun stuff that could keep you occupied for
> days, if not years!  It also
> has a couple of examples of that growl which we've talked about before on
> harp-L (about 6/10th of
> the way thru) but at that time I didn't have the song to listen to, so i
> had little idea of what
> the posters were talking about. But that growl appears to be on a the OB'd
> 4 blow. I'm gonna save
> this link.  If anyone can shed light on what's going on in this song, i
> would be very interested.
> This was great.  Thanks for sending that link.
> ron
>
>
>
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