Re: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nope. Slim is right. It's recorded on a four-octave C harmonica with no tape magic or anything else. And no need for it.


All the ornaments work and lie easily if played in G on a  C harmonica. Every single one. Some of them are slightly more awkward if transposed up a fourth played in C instead of in G. Anad why would you plays something a fourth up and then transpose it down a fourth if it were easy enough not to bother?


Stevie plays the high D - the highest note on a C chromatic and it's clear that he's doing for that special slide-in high D. (that rules out a G harmonica.)


Stevie's normal instrument for recording has always been a four-octave chromatic in C.

Recording it in C and the changing the pitch by a perfect fourth downward to put it in G would sound really, really, weird. Really, really, really weird. LIke underwater, slow motion on asylum-strength tranquilizing drugs kind of weird.


Why go looking for a solution that doesn't have a problem?

Winslow

 
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
Columnist, harmonicasessions.com


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From: michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:59 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question

Our new idea is that he recorded on a C and the engineer slowed to song to G.
Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:26 PM, michael rubin
<michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Working on Ruby with a student on a C chromatic.  He has a band that
> is playing in the key of C, but Stevie is playing in the key of G.
> When my student used the amazing slow downer to transpose up to the
> key of C, he noticed that all of the trill button in/out effects
> continued to work.  When we played in the key of G on a C chromatic,
> we needed a sixteen hole chrome to get the full range of the song.
> But when transposed, the entire song fit on a 12 hole chrome.  Is it
> possible that Stevie played this song on a G chromatic?
> Thanks,
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
>