Le Grisbi

[dorbi]

Hello!
I'm happy to help you!

For open this forum, I don't resist to post the tab of the most famous french harmonica theme "Le Grisbi" It come to french film "Touchez pas au Grisbi"

You have maybe hear Jean Wetzel, Claude Garden or Larry Adler version.

The tab of "Le Grisbi" theme is here!
+5 : blow 5 hole
-5 : Draw 5 hole
+5* : blow 5 hole with buton

+5 -6 +7* +7     -6 +5 +3* -3*
+5 -6 +7* +7     -6 +5 +3* -3*
+3* -3* +5 +3* -2     +3 +3* -3* +3 -1* +1* +1

+5 -6 +7* +7     -6 +5 +3* -3*
+5 -6 +7* +7     -6 +5 +3* -4
-4 +5* -4 -3 -4 +5 +2     -3 -4 -3 +3*
+3* -3* +3* +3 +3* -3* +1*     +3 -3 +3 -2*

+5 -6 +7* +7     -6 +5 +3* -3*
+3* -3* -4 -3* -4 +5 +3* -2 +1
+1 +2 +3 -2
+3* -3* -4 -3* -4 +5 +3* -2 +1
+1 +2 +3 -2

I record an example
[youtube=425,350]8Dz-__gJTEI[/youtube]

Now, it's to you to play!
Record you and post your version!

[Ziggy]

I like this tab better than the SuperTAB, the Harmonica Tablature system used for NHL publications.
It can be written with any computer, and is simple and easy to read.
Ziggy

[Grizzly]

I like this tab better than the SuperTAB, the Harmonica Tablature system used for NHL publications.
It can be written with any computer, and is simple and easy to read.
Ziggy

I agree; when I did tab for Gymnopedie #3 for my 2007 SAH workshop, I had no clue what was common tab protocol. I found the NHL site, but ended up doing my own thing, which worked, and was available on my computer keyboard. (I just tried to put it in here, but this program doesn't read my arrows for breath direction.) The participants understood it well enough.

Tom

[Renault]

The "+" sign is unnecessary - if it's just a number you can assume it's a blow note. If it has a "-" in front of it, then it's a draw note.

[Ziggy]

The "+" sign is unnecessary - if it's just a number you can assume it's a blow note. If it has a "-" in front of it, then it's a draw note.

Good point. Takes less room that way.
That is another problem with using the arrows...they eat up a lot of room.

This is why I like the Harping program. All we need to do is post our Favorite MIDI files, and each person can use them as they require.
Plus the songs can be edited or keys and octaves transposed with a click of the mouse.
Ziggy
PS below is a simple MIDI file I use to introduce people to the chromatic and the Harping! program.
Give it a try!

[John Broecker]

Hello Tabulars.

There are many (at least 12) tab systems for the slide chromatic. Here are a few, in no particular order. This list doesn't include Dorbi's tab system:

1. The harmonica's hole number with arrow below or above the number, pointing up for blow (exhale) notes, down for draw (inhale) notes. The "slide lever in" is notated with a horizontal arrow pointing left.

Thomas Hart Benton, a famous American painter, is credited with the invention of the above system.
 
2. The harmonica's hole number is printed with a circle around the number for inhale notes, no circle for exhale notes. The sharp sign is placed to the left of  the number for "slide in," and a natural sign in the same place is used to cancel the slide in. (Selections for the Chromatic Harmonica, by Mildred Van Denburgh, published by M.M. Cole, Chicago, 1934).

3. The harmonica's hole number is printed, with the letter "B," for blow (exhale), and "D," for draw (inhale) above the hole number, with a horizontal arrow pointing left, placed above the B or D, to direct the slide in.

(Larry Adler, His Harmonica Arrangements & How to Play Them, written by Larry Adler, Chappell & Co. Ltd., London, England, 1957).

4. Hole number is printed above the up arrow (exhale) or down arrow (inhale), and the slide in is notated as the hole number, circled (57 Harmonicas, arranged by Pietro Diero for Hansen House, 1981).

5. A page-width horizontal line with arrow pointing right, placed on the right margin, for slide out notes. Hole numbers are placed above the line. A page-width horizontal line is with arrow pointing left, placed on the left margin, is for slide in notes.

The inhale (half rest) or exhale (0) sign is placed above the slide in line, or above the slide out line.  Both slide out and slide in lines are placed above the traditional music notation. (Harmonica, Diatonique & Chromatique Facile, arranged by Albert Raisner, Editions Paul Beuscher Arpege, published after 1977).This is an example of a French tab system.

6. A hole number is placed under the traditional music staff, with no circle for exhale, and a circle around the number for inhale notes. A short, left pointing arrow is placed above the hole number, for slide in. Music "slurs" are placed between 2 numbers of the same pitch, to notate extended notes.

Single horizontal lines are placed under the hole numbers to represent 2 notes played within the time of one foot tap (8th note rhythm in 4/4 time). Double horizontal lines represent 16th note rhythms-4 notes played within one foot tap in 4/4 time. This system is an evolution from a Chinese system. This was developed by Cham-Ber Huang, for his harmonica compositions and books.

This posting is getting long. If you'd like examples of other tablature systems for
slide chromatic harmonica, let me know.

John Broecker

[SlideMeister]

"You Tell Me"  = "Suicide is Painless" (Mash Theme)

[John Broecker]

Hello again, Tabulators.

This is part 2 of 2 postings, listing a few slide harp tab systems. For more information, read part one.

Mainly a traditional note reader, I use tab with music that is new to me, if it has accidentals (notes not in the given key). Whatever works, to shorten the learning time.

On another subject, a few Sliders agreed that the B major scale is a difficult scale (on a C harp, presumably) and it is rarely used. In my opinion, that should be the main reason to master it.

For me, no major or minor scale is difficult. If a tune is in B, I use a B chromatic, first position. It's as easy as picking up a B harp. The blow-draw pattern is identical for first position on all 7 major key harps, all 12 keys.

The price of the purchase of a set of 12 differently tuned harmonicas (or 7 harps, using the button out for a scale, and the button in for another scale) is expensive today, but it was less expensive 12 years ago, when my set was completed. All Hohner 270s.

Here are a few more tab systems for slide chromatic harps. This isn't complete, but it will allow you to "translate" a new tab system into your current system or into traditional music notation.

Traditional music notation is the preferred stystem, because it has evolved over
6+ centuries, while the chromatic harmonica tablature systems are no more than
100 years old. Traditional music notation gives the performer much more information than the tablature systems.

7. White numbers outlined in black (exhale), black numbers (inhale). A large black dot (.) is a rest. A "b" to the right of a hole number is a flatted note (slide in), a "#" to the right of a hole number is a sharped note (slide in) (Pocket Harmonica Songbook, by David Harp, Musical i Press, 1993).

8. Hole numbers with arrows (up-exhale, down-inhale). A short horizontal dash above the hole number for slide in (Jazz Harp, by Richard Hunter, Oak publication).

9. Solid black circles with white hole numbers inside (exhale), solid white circles with black hole numbers inside (inhale), # sign to the left of a circle for slide in (undated Hohner booklet by Dave Harp).

10. Hole numbers listed with "In" (inhale) or "Out" (exhale) below the hole numbers.# sign to the left of hole number for slide in. Same booklet, author & publisher as #9 above.

11. Numbers of tablature syetem aren't harmonica hole numbers, but scale numbers (1 is "do," 2 is "re," etc. up through 7("ti"). A dot on the right side of the number represents an extended value note (held longer than un-dotted number).

A (#) sign to the left of a number, and a (b) sign to the left of a number are slide in. A number with a dot below it, is played an octave lower than an undotted number. A number with a dot above it is played an octave higher than an undotted note.

System #11 is from a Chinese harmonica duet, "The Sun Is Coming Out," from the musical, "White Haired Girl," by He Jingzhi, Ding Yi, Ma Ke, Zhang Lu, Chen Zi, Qu Wei, Huan Zhi, Xiang Yu, and liu Zhi (1940).

12. Hole numbers followed by a (-) sign are inhale, hole numbers followed by a(+) are exhale. A black number and sign are placed inside a white circled note head for half notes, dotted half notes or whole notes (two foot taps or longer in 4/4 time).

A white number and sign are placed inside a solid black circle note head for quarter notes and smaller value notes. A sharp (#) or flat sign (b) to the left of the note head is for slide in.

The above number 12 system was developed in the book, Tabulated Music for Harmonica, Reference Data for Harmonica, written and published by Ron Ervin(1997).

Best Wishes.

John Broecker

[Ziggy]

"You Tell Me"  = "Suicide is Painless" (Mash Theme)

Extra points for getting the actual title.
Z

[SlideMeister]

Actually, that's one of he numbers on the (CD) project I've been threatening to finish for two years. 

[Ziggy]

Actually, that's one of he numbers on the (CD) project I've been threatening to finish for two years. 

It was one of the first songs I learned along with Roco's Theme, AKA Theme from The Rockford Files,  the Fishing Hole AKA the Theme from the Andy Griffith Show, Where Everybody Knows Your Name AKA the Theme  from Cheers and the Theme from Jeopardy!

I practiced in front of the TV a lot.
Ziggy

[dorbi]

Hello

You can listen to Jean Albert Wiener (the compositor)
http://www.deezer.com/track/1427092

and you can see the trailer with the movie version (Jean Wetzel)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMup-Vl8wps[/youtube]

You can listen to Claude Garden with his virtuoso version!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOI15cQsZoE[/youtube]


So I still need to work lol
I think you can do best version no?^^
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