Re: [Harp-L] O, Come All Ye Faithful played in three positions on diatonic

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

This raises the topic of yuletide christmas winter songs that that provide an easily recognizable collection of tunes to practice harmonica chops. And most of the time, the songs are so familiar that you don't need sheet music or tab, just the lyrics -- and sometimes not even that.


Happy holidays, folks!


Phil






-----Original Message-----
From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Harp-L List <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 12:47 am
Subject: [Harp-L] O, Come All Ye Faithful played in three positions on diatonic


Somewhere in all the back-and-forth challenging someone mentioned the idea of 
playing Adeste Fideles (aka O, Come All ye faithful) in the first  octave of a 
diatonic where there are missing notes.

OK, I did it and you can hear the results.

I found a piano backing track in the key of F, and then played along with it 
three times, each time using a different key of diatonic harmonica and playing 
the tune in the low register, or as deep in the low register as would fit on 
that key of harp. All three harmonicas were in standard tuning and had not been 
tweaked or altered for this recording - they were what I had lying around in 
interesting keys.
 
When I recorded, each rendition was done as a single take - no piecing together 
cherry-picked fragments. And no pitch correction, either. Just a bit of reverb 
and mastering plugins.

You can listen and judge the results - and figure out which keys of harps I used 
at this link:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2901194/Adeste%20Fideles%20in%20three%20positions.mp3


Winslow
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