Re: [Harp-L] Country Tuning

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 26, 2014, at 6:43 PM, 16:23 wrote:

> Smo-Joe
> I really appreciate the comments. 
> I'm going to work on hitting the correct note on "zy"   and lock it in. 

Oooh. Greg. I just realized that I didn't expound enough on that. I should have explained that I realized that you were only setting UP the video and that 
you weren't going for any particular notes per se, but just trying to get into the technical aspect(s). Besides, playing off a rack AND manipulating a guitar at
the same time WHILE also talking and thinking is an art form in and of itself. Hope you didn't take it the wrong way. Sorry to have been so vague.  

> Great tip and good stuff you wrote. 
> 
> Just a side comment, somewhere along the line the pitch was shifted on this video.   I noticed it after hitting the publish button when Todd Parrot brought it up. 

Yes, these things are a hazard. And if Todd noticed it, I can take that to the bank. Mr. Parrot is one of my favorite players. He has intonation to die for. 

smo-joe  
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 26, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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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