Re: [Harp-L] unaccompanied harp

[Garry Hodgson <harp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

46long Blake <46long@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please do fire out ideas for pieces to play by yourself. Every now and then
> I'm asked to play unaccompanied, or my partner breaks a string and I have to
> fill 2-3 minutes on stage, and in neither case does riffing cover it.
> Something melodic, perhaps even including vocals - heck, I can sing........

a few that i've wanted to use for this purpose.  i work on them,
off and on:

Hot Tuna: Embryonic Journey, Good Shepherd, Water Song
Dead: Sage and Spirit
Allman Bros: Little Martha, Blue Sky

mind you, i can't do justice to any of these yet.  probably do best
on "Good Shepherd" and "Blue Sky".  but they're fun to play.  maybe
once i get these down, i'll go for Hot Tuna's "Mann's Fate".
or Beethoven's 7th.


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