Re: [Harp-L] Jazzy mid- level complicated tunes for a jam - a list/Harlem nocturne

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rick, and modesty is always becoming. 

  And "Harlem nocturne" is an absolute bastard!
  I must confess I gave up on it several years ago, to some extent depending on that I play only un-modified diatonics (I am a klutz, can´t work on my harps) and my OB´s and OD´s mostly lack the stability required for longer notes: I could not find a way round that tune without long OB´s/OD´s. My execution -- already on the verse! -- had too much of anguished cat over it. Not the proper framing for this elegant and moody tune, I decided.

  Then comes the "waterfall" ...

I assume you play it in 3 pos?

Cheers,
/Martin


PS: On a string instrument, I´m not at all unhappy with the version I give it on slide guitar, in open D. That is, up to the waterfall ... then it gets a little mushy. 


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 From: Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
"we can deduce that Rick is a fairly advanced player. " No! Don't deduce that! They are just all the tunes I struggle to play. My playing is advanced like a serious disease! But I am very fond of all those choons. Speaking of Harlem Nocturne, it's not the verse that's hard, it's just what Smoky Joe would call the 'waterfall', ie the cascade of 4ths/5ths in the bridge that's hard. Took me a good year to get it down. I can do it on chrom or diatonic. On a string instrument, it's child's play. Best thing to do is to learn to sing it so you know what it's supposed to sound like.
RD