Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson - Detailed Visual Tab (Low D)
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2020
- Sonny is using a Hohner Marine Band 364 Low D in this video. I'm a big fan of transcribing songs for lots of different instruments and I wanted to challenge myself by tackling this monster of a harmonica tune. A few notes about this transcription...
I) Can you use this video to learn the tune? Well.. kinda. The purpose of making this video wasn't so much to teach the tune, it was more about showing folks just how much is going on 'behind-the-scenes' when an experience player picks up a harmonica and starts to play. If you did want to try learning the tune using this vid, you could use youtube's 'slow down' feature to bring the speed down to 50%. The visual tab goes by pretty quickly at full speed. Why didn't I include a text tab? Well, this level of detail is impossible to show in a text tab. Once again, this isn't supposed to be a 'tutorial' video.
2) Yes, Sonny Boy is doing a lot more tongue-blocking then what is shown in the visual tab. I realized early on that it would be nearly impossible to tell exactly when he is using the tongue-blocking technique and when he is not. So, I decided I would highlight the tongue-blocked parts that are very obvious and tab the rest as if it were lip-pursed. Part of me thinks it is likely that the entire tune is tongue-blocked.
3) Yes, the harmonica shown on screen is not accurate to the one Sonny Boy is using (which had 12 holes). I did this because Sonny doesn't play any of the holes above hole 6. Instead of taking up more screen space by using a picture of a 12 hole harp, I decided to just use a 10 hole harp and save more screen-space for Sonny.
4) I'm not entirely convined that I have the main riff correct. Everyone has their own way of playing this tune and this is just another stab at trying to replicate what Sonny Boy was doing. After slowing the tune down to 25% and listening super closely, this is what I came up with.
Enjoy! I have fun making these kinds of videos so if you have suggestions for other tunes I could make a visual tab for, I'm all ears.
that brother hit single notes with that thing shoved in his mouth, i'm done. this was awesome.
This man is one of the greatest just trying to play and match the notes he hit is impossible props to him
Sonny Boy Williamson makes playing harmonica look so easy
This guy's an absolute genius with his harmonica.
I could listen to this millions of times and enjoy these truly down home vibrations. Thank You for posting this Masterpiece.
Yes! I’ve loved this performance for ages. I recently bought a low D, and you’ve provided invaluable insight into how to get into this tune.
Greetings from England. This is fantastic. You have done a fantastic job transcribing this great tune. Absolutely brilliant. Congratulations.
hi，This is the most accurate harmonica tabs I have ever seen. I tried to wrote down in notation before. But it seems like you did this in a more efficiency way! Thank you for all that you did.
Good job, Man. I admire your dedication. I've always dug this piece.
This is class, great notes too - really appreciate the effort that has gone into this not-tutorial!
That is absolutely brilliant! A really great insight as to what he's actually doing. Wish the technology had been around 45 years ago when I first started. It would have saved a lot of time trying to figure stuff out from vinyl!
You did a great work. Thank you for this!
I say it again, THANKS! Vraiment génial. Bravo ! Grâce à vous l'apprentissage est simplifié. Brilliant! Thank you so much for spending time to teach us how to play harmonica.
Great job! Thanks for this, it's terrific!
*Great transcription and the harp graphic looks cool and reads well. Nice work all round*
simply an amazing job you have done here. You have my firm subscription!!!
Great work on deciphering this tune! Can't imagine any better visualisation of it than this animated harp perfectly synchronised with the audio track. Thanks a lot!
I second that, very impressive and clear. I pay attention to systems for harmonica because it's such a strange instrument to document. The system in this video is fantastic, hadn't seen it before. Well done!!
This is an amazing visual. Keep up the good work!
This is fantastic. Thank you for this.
More and more awesome concept...made me pick up my harp after years of not breathing it.
Great video and excellent course of harmonica life
Can’t say thank you enough for putting the effort in! Based on the comments, you have a lot of thankful harp players. I say keep it up! Best harp tabs video I’ve seen
Always a buzz watching Sonny Boy live recordings
Amazing work ! Thanks a lot !!
cada vez mais ouço esse gênio da música.. .maravilhoso seu dom.
Thank you! This is fantastic!
Monstrão, tocava demais 👏👏👏👏👏
It's amazing what he does!
I've heard quite a few people try play this . And as good as they might be. This is the best version. Sorry guys
Nossa estou sem palavras... Eu comprei uma gaita e comecei treinar e aprender sozinha mas nunca tinha visto uma didática tão espetacular..... Parabéns ..
Cool! great stuff 👍
Beautiful playing
I lovr how you show what is being played. You deserve money for that.
It's wonderful!
This is the best thing I've seen! An amazing thing to do and super appreciated 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Just saw the first 3 seconds and I ran quickly here to write the same damn thing. I need more of these!
Magnifique, du bon Sonny :)
amazing work! Thank you
My dad played blues guitar and sonny boy williamson and Robert locwood were 2 blues artists we played with
great job!
Fantastic stuff. Thank you for sharing this 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 love from India 🇮🇳
You got this ❤
Man, that is great!
Amazing sound
Genial!! Que maestro!
more like this please
This men is amazing
This is awsome. Thanks a lot!!
Great work👍
Great job!
Brilliant!
Coolest Thing I've Seen This Year
Go on man...very good ! 😎
Hey now thats cool. I also saw the one on Indiara Sfair. If you have the time to do more of indiara Sfair I will certainly watch it. A much more fun way to learn.
Good work !!
thank you! keep doing this
Época boa que se fazia música de verdade
You are the music educator I aspire to be
Amazing good job
HOLY SHIT! This is GODLY!
Excelente!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesomeness 😎👍
amazing thank you
thank you for this
Very cool 😎
Damn good ♥️
谢谢您提供的音乐欣赏 。
epic style
Forget beat box harmonica, this man just blew his nose and music came out!
Thank you for posting this. This is a great video! You really should market this technology and sell it! Have slow versions too for us slow learner's. Lol
The Best !🎵
Brutal!!
Me: *meticulously attempting harp notes and tongue blocking*
Sonny Boy: *just shoves the end of it haphazardly in his mouth *
And thats why im watching this at 3 AM.
😂
Это просто высший пилотаж! Афигеннно! класс!! 👍🍀🙂☘🍀😮
Спасибо большое!
thanks brothers
Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you...peace
that just looks like fun.
Magnífico
un geniooooo
It is inevitable to feel that heavy air of cotton field, that fatigue from the train trip that brought him to sing for a while, that pain that represents them all
POR LA MADRE Y POR LA PATRIA , CON RAZÓN O SIN ELLA.
Wow ❤
The Man
Takie proste a takie ładne.
you a genius from land of the long white cloud
That's Appreciated
a made a comment on another video, you sound like sonny boy, and hear you are, your of the chart lady, incredible player.
HAHAHAHA!!! All natural this is the man!!!
O M G!!
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Hello Curtis, great job! Thanks! Must be a hell of a job to analyse an register a harmonica song in this way that you do. Very helpfull for everyone with a bluesharp. Think you'll get ton's of requests so you must be a very busy man. But still i want to propose a song that's worth it, Hakan Ehns version of sweet home Chicago on YT. It's great how he blows it away. Keep on going please!
Super
Great🎉🎉
Thx so good
Yea
I think you got pretty close
Well done
Muy bueno
Fabulous method to show what is going on in real-time. I find this very helpful and more instructive than seeing numeric tabs or traditional notes, as I normally play by ear. This is a very good bridge technique to learn a song for me. I hope to see more use of it. How did you create the graphic - what software?
❤
Thanks man! I don't like the notation, but the song is complete. I'm subcribed now. Have a nice day.
Thanks! You prefer text tab? If you read the description of this video you will see that the purpose of this vid wasn't really to ''teach the tune'. Visual tab on it's own isn't a great teaching tool because it goes by too fast. In most most all of my videos, I accompany the visual tab with traditional text tab. Cheers!
@@2-minuteharmonica-newlicks955I prefer the classic music sheet (notes) with the tab (numbers, etc...) in the botom. But this video is great, is just a comment. Thanks for the work. :D
Whatever can get through to people, I think. Everybody learns different. The more ways to connect people with the harmonica, the better! Sergio connects with notations, I connect with this visual, and we all connect with Sonny! Beautiful
Fun fact: he’s just a couple years older than Eminem in this video!
Who ?
Lol
Кайф,один чувак делает вещь👍