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From: Pat Missin
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:36:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Take Five (was Madcat)

On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Hugh Messenger wrote:
>
>> Some time I'll also be sampling Madcat's rendition of Take 5. Madcat toured
>> with the Dave Brubeck jazz quintet (quartet?) for a couple of years, and
is the
>> only harp player I know who can convincingly carry off Take 5. Without
>> a single overblow.
>

Been doing this for years in it's original key of Ebm on (surprise) an EbmN
harp. One overblow needed, hole 5, but it's so easy to hit as it is part of
an ascending line. I have tried it in a few other tunings/positions, but the
natural minor harp lets me fake the piano riff when I play solo. Come to
think of it, when I play it as part of a duo, it tends to get shunted to Em!

Actually, I once heard a bunch of Japanese schoolkids play Take 5, using the
stacked tremelo technique that the Japanese seem so good at!

-- Pat.