I'd like your help with something: an unashamedly cheeseball project I'm working on. A dear friend has her birthday coming up, and she lo-o-o-oves this cheerful little song by Ani DiFranco, 'Little Plastic Castle'.
As a gift I thought I'd try record a version, special for her. Here's the song:
I've nothing too complicated planned: a guitar track, a bass track, some percussion, and harmonica filling in the hornline.
Unfortunately, when it come to the horn line, my ambitions may have exceeded my abilities. I'm a first- through third-position player, and I'm not sure if those are the best tools for the job. Does anyone have any recommendations for ways to tackle the horn line? And if so would you do me the favour of typing it out in a basic tab?
Update: Hmmm... Now I'm contemplating something more ambitious still. What about a multi-track harp version of the song, with the horns AND the bass (and maybe even the vocals) on harmonica?
It sounds kinda complicated. Especially because this song lives of the different instruments interacting (by itself they all play very simple stuff). So when you combine the different instruments into one a lot gets lost. - so I'm saying no. But I'm curious what you'll come up with.
From one listen, as far as I can tell, the horns - at least the lead one - don't do much more than hover round the major scale. In fact, I think it was all played between doh ray me fah soh lah, or 4> to 6< in 1st position. That bit in the bridge uses the 4<, me thinks - aarrggh, it's already fading as I type.
It was one listen so I could be wrong, but give that a try. Nice little song, that.
EDIT: the key is D. If I were you, I'd just lay over a little improv in 1st postion. Just a thought. ---------- 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchen; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty' - Frank Zappa
