[Harp-L] Re: Runaway - Bonnie Raitt

[Roger Myerson <rmyerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Runaway lays so beautifully on a fourkey-tuned harmonica that it 
sometimes feels like Del Shannon wrote it for this instrument!  I play 
it on an Ab fourkey harp, which can play the Ab, Eb, Bb, and F major 
keys without bending.  But the key of F is played mostly on the blow 
notes, and the key of Ab is played mostly on the draw notes.  So the key 
change that others see as a need to switch instruments is, for a fourkey 
player, largely a shift from blows to draws.
But I admit that, in the organ-solo section, I simplify the sixteenth 
notes down to eighth notes.
-Roger

http://4keyharps.wordpress.com/

On 8/12/2012 7:25 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:29:56 -0500
> From: Doug Schroer<dougharps@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Runaway - Bonnie Raitt
> To: Harp-l for posting<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It can be played on one harp (an F) as Winslow suggested.  It is also worth
> exploring with 4 harps (F, Eb, Db, and C), too, just for the experience.
> ...