[Harp-L] Stevie Wonder FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE

[Richard Hunter]

Slim wrote: " Richard's book is great and I highly recommend it, but so is
his advice to work it out yourself."

1) Thanks!
2) Yes, it's powerful to work out those solos for yourself.  For me the
most important benefit that came from writing "Jazz Harp" was the wonderful
stuff I learned from doing those transcriptions (and then transposing the
solos into 12 keys).  But I've benefitted as well from transcriptions done
by others--looking at a transcription while you listen to the recording
makes many things clear that were previously unknown.

Thanks, RH

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:02 PM Slim Heilpern <slim at xxxxx> wrote:

> Richard's book is great and I highly recommend it, but so is his advice to
> work it out yourself. When I was getting serious about learning the
> chromatic  (over 40 years ago), I bought all the Stevie Wonder LPs I didn't
> already have and worked my way through almost all of his harmonica solos. I
> didn't memorize them, just figured 'em out by ear which showed me the basic
> techniques I'd need to be able to play in that style. I went through them
> in chronological order starting with his first LP (he was 12 years old)
> figuring that the easiest stuff would appear first. But the stuff he was
> doing by the time he was 19 (e.g. "Alfie") was not easy to say the least --
> still blows my mind how he had both invented a new chromatic style and
> played so damn beautifully by that age.
>
> - Slim
>
> https://slimandpenny.com
>
>
> > On Sep 23, 2020, at 6:57 AM, Richard Hunter <rhunter377 at xxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Brian Irving wrote: So, has anybody posted the tab in F# on a C
> chromatic?
> >
> > My book "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC, 1980) includes a complete
> > transcription of this solo in standard and arrow notation for C chromatic
> > harmonica.
> >
> > If you're not willing to pay for the book, you can of course work it out
> > for yourself. That's what I did, and I learned a whole lot from a lot of
> > other musicians by working out their solos note for note.
> >
> > Thanks, RH
> >
> > Author, "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC)
> > Latest mp3s and harmonica blog at http://hunterharp.com
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