Re: [Harp-L] Country Tuning

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg, on your second playing on the word crazy, (the 'zy' syllable), you aren't getting the bend.
You need a sharp there.  
I loved your video and it was spot on. I came up with raising the 5 draw back in 1960, and used it 
2 decades before Charley. Why? For doo-wop, dance music, jazz, and dixieland.

I always held the feeling that tunes have certain notes..sometimes only one, sometimes more, which
MUST be hit or you loose the 'flavour' of the tune. And I used to use 2 or more harps on a tune until I 
came up with 'my' doo-wop tuning. Because if one cannot hit these 'critical' notes, one shouldn't play
the tune.  

Previously one would use 2 harps (for example a D crossed and an A straight) for Londonderry Aire (Oh Danny Boy), and 4
harps if you modulated . Like a D crossed, A straight, Eb crossed, and a Bb straight. 
With my system, you only need 1 harp (a D crossed), (or 2 if you modulated..like a D & Eb)). Recently heard a tune done by a 
rather well known name. 'Walkin after midnight'. In the 'weeping willow' phrase, he was hitting the 
wrong note. It was a natural, and it should have been a slur/bend flat. It was like my left arm. It was't right, and it wasn't fair. lol.

My video 'Georgia' is an example of correct 'critical' notes.     

smokey joe

On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Greg Jones wrote:

> Short video on Country Tuning
> I play the classic country song Crazy in key of (G) using a (C) Session
> Steel in standard tuning using OB for the major 7th and then using a (C)
> Session Steel that is country tuned.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehV5dR0iZak
> 
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