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Impovisation Indiara Sfair

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Wed, 05/23/2018 - 12:35
Eron Black
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Hi guys

 

I just found this video of Indiara Sfair and that song it caught my attention. I would like to know if someone told me how to play it in C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-JRUyKV08 

Ty guys! :D

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Tue, 07/17/2018 - 04:16
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dej
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Use Audacity

Hi Eron

One way is to download this song from youtube by means of a youtube-to-mp3 convertor freeware to your pc.

Then import the mp3 into Audacity (also a freeware which you can install on your pc); in Audavity you can manipulate the song; for example you canalter the pitch towards the one you like.

Let me know if my answer is not clear to you, using my Belgian English :-)

 

Joris

(Belgium)

 

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Tue, 07/17/2018 - 14:22
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Expert Winslow Yerxa
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Some basic orientation

She's using a Bb harp and using it to play in C minor (as indicatedin the opening credits).

The first three notes she plays are Draw 4, then 5, then 6 - which outline a C minor chord on a Bb harp. These notes also occur in Draw 8-9-10.

Third position gives you its home chord in the draw notes starting in Draw 4, as I describe in the paragraph above. The lower holes form another chord in the draw notes, though, and it takes bending skills to bend them down to chord notes.

You can use all the notes, of course, not just those chord notes. But those are the focus notes.

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Sat, 07/21/2018 - 16:56
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JeremyHunt
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Looks like 1'' and 4'' in the

Looks like 1'' and 4'' in the tab are typos. They should be plain old half step bends. Otherwise we'd surely just want to blow!

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Thu, 08/16/2018 - 15:39
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Same song on A harp.

Here's the same song being played using key of A harmonica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bPC-k5Qu4

 

So it is possible to play using any harmonica.

To play on A harmonica, just lower the original background track's pitch in audacity by half semi tone.

For C, increase pitch of original track by 1 semi tone. Use Audacity as mentioned above by dej.

 

Backing Track link: https://youtu.be/qKf-2MwsEac

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