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Roseanne Theme Tabs
Roseanne Theme Tabs
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imaginess
1 post
Jul 26, 2017
11:40 AM
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Can someone please check out tabs for the Roseanne Theme song. There are 3 versions I found. These are for the shorter one (video link included). Let me know if they are accurate and how they work for you if you try them out.
Roseanne harmonica
John "Juke" Logan (not John Popper version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSifPUimeMI
Theme Total 49 seconds
Harmonica: A
Song Key: E
00:00 - 00:05
-4(~)-5 (warble), -4'-4 -4'-4 -4'-4 -4'-4--slide-->-3-2 -2"
-2" -2' -2 (slowly letting up)
00:07 - 00:08
-2', -2, 3, -3', -2
00:13 - 00:16
-3',-3, -4, 5, -4', -4, -4', -4, -4'
00:26 - 00:28(29)
-3, -4, 5, 6, -5, -4, -4', 4, -4, 5, -4-4'--slide-->-3-2-2',2
00:38 - 00:41
---slide--->6, -5, -4-4'---slide-->-3,-2
-3'-3, -4, -4-4'--slide-->-3,-2-2'
# blow
-# draw
(~)warble
' half step bend
" whole step bend
'" Step and a half bend (3 hold draw)
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WinslowYerxa
1399 posts
Jul 26, 2017
12:03 PM
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Why don't you check it yourself? Load the audio into an editing app that will allow you to do precise starts and stops, such as Audacity (free and works on all platforms).
Pick up a harp and play along with each segment, trying out the tab. Does it sound right? If it goes by too fast, use the slow down feature that's also part of the app.
If you do this on your own, you'll learn a lot more than if you just ask other people.
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imaginess
3 posts
Jul 26, 2017
12:17 PM
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I am asking here, because the tabs that I was able to find on the internet so far were wrong. Typically people try to follow the sax melody versus listening to what the harp is playing. And since I was unable to find them, I figured if they were accurate, others would now have them too.
Also don't assume I didn't already do the work. I played along and put the parts I struggled with through the Amazing Slow Downer. The tabs should be fairly accurate, but I may have missed some small nuances.
Last Edited by imaginess on Jul 26, 2017 12:33 PM
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kudzurunner
6308 posts
Jul 26, 2017
2:08 PM
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After imaginess contacted me via email, I encouraged him to post here and ask for feedback. He'd clearly invested a lot of time an effort to this point; I think the request is entirely reasonable.
I'm sorry that you had to suffer a brushback pitch from Winslow, imaginess, in response to your very first post on the forum. It's an honor, in some sense. I've never seen a brushback pitch from Sir Yerxa. It's an awesome, comet-like thing. Once in a blue moon.
Welcome, by the way! Usually that's how we say hello to new members.
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WinslowYerxa
1400 posts
Jul 26, 2017
2:14 PM
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Sorry, but his original post did not indicate that he had already done what I suggested. And what I suggested was entirely reasonable and, I thought, stated in an even tone.
It was not my intent to give offense.
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hot4blues
63 posts
Jul 26, 2017
5:51 PM
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As much as I also enjoy the harp parts played during the Roseanne television show, I actually love the harp playing in the theme song for the old Welcome Back Kotter song played by John Sebastian. I had the record and played it constantly. And surprisingly, my dad liked John Sebastian, despite his hatred for modern music (his ultimate hatred going out to the rock band KISS), my dad actually liked John S. Miss ya dad. Wish you were alive to hear me playing harmonica.
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Tommy the Hat
636 posts
Jul 27, 2017
5:09 AM
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I didn't get too deep into it but I did kind of browse the tab above and the video while attempting to (sort of) play along. It seemed to work but like I said; I only briefly grazed the song.
I am a little curious though as to your reasonings for this as there almost seems like a sense of urgency here. (?) What I mean is that this song seems easy enough to at least get close even without tab. And it's the sort of song that is what I would call free flowing or a bluesy progression meaning you can kind of just play to it and it will sound good. It isn't a "set in stone" tune or melody that anyone would start complaining about. "Hey! That's not how it goes!"
I'm always for doing your own thing. The original is someone else's. Copying is...well...copying! Doing your own thing worked for Joe Cocker. His Beatles covers are better than the Beatles!
Just curious.
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Last Edited by Tommy the Hat on Jul 27, 2017 5:11 AM
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imaginess
4 posts
Jul 27, 2017
5:50 AM
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Tommy,
I did not mean for there to be a sense of urgency. This is my first attempt at creating my own tabs, and as I stated what I was able to find on the internet (primarily youtube) was just wrong.
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Tommy the Hat
638 posts
Jul 27, 2017
6:02 AM
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I'm sorry...my mistake. I didn't know those were your tabs? I thought you were looking for tabs to learn the song. I didn't realize you were creating tabs. So the tabs above are tabs you created?
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Last Edited by Tommy the Hat on Jul 27, 2017 6:03 AM
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Honkin On Bobo
1441 posts
Jul 27, 2017
6:18 AM
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I'll echo what The Hat has said here. I didn't have the time to go through it phrase by phrase. I did give the first couple a quick try and I think you've probably got it. If you're off by a note here and there absolutely nobody will know or care. Well, except Larry. I mean he has perfect pitch you know?.
On a side note I agree with you about tabs in general. What i've found is most of them simply play the melody line of a song and are often wrong or don't reflect the harp part of a blues or rock tune. For example, i once searched for tabs for the Little Walter classic My Babe. All I could find was somebody who had tabbed out "My Babe, don't stand no foolin', my babe"..etc. NOT THE SOLOS. It was frustrating. This was years ago, someone probably has tabbed that out by now. Most of them are for songs with no harp in them or that sound horrible as played on harp (IMO). I tend to use them as a rough tool, if available, to help speed the learning of a song, but not the be all end all. Winslow, is of course right, in the long run, figuring out songs for yourself provides so many benefits (and you've clearly done that here) its worth undertaking. But I totally understand using them to jumpstart yourself on a song. I say ANYTHING that gets you playing/practicing can't be bad. Welcome to the MBH forum, in all it's glorious funky insanity.
Last Edited by Honkin On Bobo on Jul 27, 2017 6:26 AM
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kudzurunner
6309 posts
Jul 27, 2017
8:05 AM
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I will admit, on Winslow's behalf, that when I reread the OP, there seems to have been a slippage between what imaginess wrote in his email to me and what he's written here. I just went back and checked that email. It was a request for me to assess the tab that he had created for the Roseanne Theme Song. It contained the following line:
"I was hoping if you had a moment you could check my work on tabs I created for the Rosanne Theme."
I replied, simply, that he should register for the forum, share his tab with people here, and ask what people thought.
That's an entirely reasonable thing to do. But the OP, above, confuses the issue by not making clear that the "tabs" mentioned in the first sentence is, in fact, imaginess's own creation. The phrase "There are three versions I found" could easily apply to other people's tabs--which is how I believe Winslow took it. I guess the three versions are different versions of the theme song itself, not different tabs for the same version. But I don't actually know. So.....a confusing first post, that we're still trying to decode.
We can all calm down now. No big deal.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jul 27, 2017 8:07 AM
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