RE: [Harp-L] little martha

["Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never tried this, but you might try a country-tuned a harp in second
position. 
Since the song lacks flatted thirds or sevenths, you'd be going for that
"sweet" feeling. 
A real challenge might be knowing when to assert the harp.  I can envision
playing rhythm harp while the guitarist plays the theme, and maybe you could
get him to let you take one or two iterations of the melody. 
Another possibility that just hit me would be to play the song on an a Steve
Baker Special, but I'm not sure how well that would work through the B-part
of the verse.
(It would probably behoove me to actually try some of this stuff before I go
suggesting you try it.)
Brad Trainham
 

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Garry Hodgson
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:28 PM
To: 'Harp -l'
Subject: [Harp-L] little martha

does anybody have any thoughts on playing the allman brothers'
"little martha"?  met up with a guitar player who plays it beautifully, want
to get in on that. 

i mean, i'll take a whack at it in cross or 3rd.  i'm just curious whether
it'd work better in another position, or how you'd go about deciding.


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