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

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael - 

Fair enough. Your initial queries seemed to suggest that you were trying to discover what Stevie actually did as opposed to speculative alternatives. The one about pitch shifting down a fourth seemed pretty extreme.
 
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: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Eivets Rednow Question

Winslow,
Why go looking for a solution that doesn't have a problem?  Because I
am teaching my students about resources.
He had an idea.  I said, that's possible, let's see what the internet
world thinks.  And we sent the question to harp-l and MBH.  It has
less to do with truly figuring out what Stevie is doing and more to do
with there being a world of resources through people like yourself on
the net.  Almost anytime I start an email with "a student wonders"
that is what I am doing.

Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.)
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> Stevie's normal instrument for recording has always been a four-octave chromatic in C.
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> 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.
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> Why go looking for a solution that doesn't have a problem?
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> Winslow
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> 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
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> Our new idea is that he recorded on a C and the engineer slowed to song to G.
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
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> 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
>>
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