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Adam's Sonny Terry rhythm video
Adam's Sonny Terry rhythm video
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stewbone59
3 posts
Aug 25, 2009
5:06 PM
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Hi again, hey I'm watching one of Adams earlier videos on this Sonny Terry thing, and I can get the subtle technique down, but I don't know if I have the tab correct. It seems like there might be two parts to it, and then he revises it. I think I'm just missing the sequence of the order of notes, I don't know what the hell I'm doing and its getting a little frustrating. PLEASE HELP This sounds like something I should be able to play.
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GermanHarpist
567 posts
Aug 25, 2009
5:26 PM
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I actually needed some time to get the rhythm right. And then the subtleties, of when to play the chord and when the 2 hole draw, that also took... I actually have a clip of the second step on my channel. Maybe it helps you out.
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mickil
489 posts
Aug 26, 2009
5:06 AM
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It took me months to learn how to play this rhythm to what I honestly thought was performance standard; and that's just the basic rhythm, let alone the the rest of it.
Before I talk about what I found hard, here's how I remember Doc describing the notes on a much earlier video:
4/4
2< 123< 123< 2> 2< 123> 123> |
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
2< 123< 123< 2> 2< 123> |
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
When I first tried it, I found that I was being sloppy about opening and closing my embouchure, so that I wasn't making a proper distinction between the single notes and the chords; that can make it sound pants.
The other thing I was messing up was that 2 blow on beat three. I found that the read simply wouldn't react fast enough to make the note sound at the speed the thing is played.
The answer to both these problems? Well, apart from practice, don't do what I did: completely ignore Doc's advice in the earlier lesson about articulation.
What is it he does? I think he suggests something like:
da wa-ka ta-ka wa-ka | da wa-ka ta-ka da |
Those 'ta's on beats 3 seem to make even a quite slugish harp react with the necessary speed to make the rhythm crisp and clear.
Does anyone else fancy tabbing the next pattern in the piece?
If you want to and you're wondering how to line up the timing with the notes, wrap the whole lot in this HTML:
<pre><tt>
some tab
</tt></pre>
Otherwise, it simply won't make any sense.
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'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchen; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty' - Frank Zappa
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Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2009 7:54 PM
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bluzlvr
236 posts
Aug 26, 2009
2:45 PM
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That Sonny Terry thing is very cool, but it's a little harder than it seems.
I started out doing it verrrrrry slow, and then forgot about it for a while.
A couple of weeks later I picked up a harp, muscle memory kicked in, and I was doing it at full speed.
It's a great rhythm in the fact that you can do variations of it. Once you get the basic rhythm down, there's no wrong way to do it.
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Ryan
1 post
Aug 28, 2009
7:35 PM
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There is actually two different parts to what Adam plays in the video, but he only teaches the first part. This may be the reason why when you play the riff it doesn't sound quite the same as when Adam starts playing it full speed. It confused me at first until I listened a little closer to what he was playing.
The first part, as mickil tabbed out, is:
2D 123D 123D 2B 2D 123B 123B
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
The second part is similar and goes like this:
2D 123D 123D 2B 123B 123B
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
So instead of playing 2blow on the downbeat of beat 3 and 2draw on the upbeat(like the first part), you play the 2blow for the whole third beat of the measure. So to play it like Adam you play the first part followed directly by the second part and continue to repeat the whole thing as many times as you want. I hope that makes sense.
Last Edited by on Aug 29, 2009 1:08 AM
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