Re: [Harp-L] Jam track with tab



Jim,

David Barrett's Classic Chicago Blues Harp has some of this, for example I'm Ready and Baby Please Don't Go. Has all you ask as well as two versions of the tracks without any harp so you can play right in, as well as versions with his harp so you can play along. That latter one has the harp on one channel so you can isolate, I think all his examples do. Make sure not to get the older version which was just one book/cd, get the newer version which was split into two books/cds, it has more updated content and more sound on the cds.

Or you could get the excellent Sittin In With The Greats play along cd with lots of classics played by some of the great musicians in playalong format, they leave you 12 and 24 bar sections to solo in, and get the tabs from books like David McKelvey's book with blues classics tabbed out for harp.

If there was one book, like McKelvey's, that had all of those classics he has in there with an accompanying CD that had them in 'straight' form and then one without harp (or harp on a channel that I could isolate) believe me I and others would buy it in a hearbeat. Doesn't even have to be the original classic by little walter, SBW's, or whomever, just as long as they are good professional renditions. Probably get into licensing issues there though, I bet.

Best you can do for now (although I recommend Barrett's Classic Chicago Blues Harp book/cd since it teaches you so much of this in other exercises, etc along with David's great playing on the tracks, which can be isolated left/right channel) is to get McKelvey's book and the actual recordings of the classics on CDs. Those wont' have the channel isolation, but you can always turn up sufficiently to play 'over' the original harp, or that tricky business of getting your levels just right so you can hear yours *and* the original harp to see if you are on or off.

PS get the Amazing Slow Downer as well, it's absolutely invaluable to slowing down, isolating this stuff. Although I'm still looking for the best setting with that to isolate the harp stuff so I can catch some of the notes with Bend-O-Meter.

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dina Janzen" <dlj@xxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Jam track with tab



I am looking for an instruction book and CD that-
Has blues harmonica classics in tab
Has recordings of the songs with harmonica and accompaniment
Has the harmonica on one channel so it can be silenced using the stereo balance control.


Thanks-
Jim
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