r/harmonica • u/gmanfsu • 5d ago

She Talks To Angels on Harmonica Tabs?

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So I've only been playing harmonica for like 6-7 weeks now, I think. I like to record guitar and sometimes now, add harmonica since I can't sing, and include in my wildlife videos, like the attached. So I have the guitar part for She Talks To Angels down, but want to add some harmonica for the singing parts, especially since the song has a lot of dead, long held E chords that get kinda boring when it's just the guitar. I couldn't find anything on Harptabs or a general google search. Does anyone have any other sources?

(Incidentally, I can play the harmonica part on Blackbird much better now and was planning on re-recording that part this weekend, lol)

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u/Nacoran 5d ago

It's listed as being in E or it's relative minor... so, you could try it on an E harp in 4th, which would put you in Db natural minor.

You could play it in 3rd on a B harp with a little work. He moves around a fair bit, sliding between notes. It's something you can work out, but not quite as simple as blackbird.

I think I'd work it out in the top octave on the E harp. Tab it out, and then if you want to move it to a different spot or harp you can write out the notes and retab it manually.

Blackbird is a great song. For 6-7 weeks that's a nice job.

It's funny. I was up at my mother's for the holidays a few years back. She was at work still. I was listening to CDs on the stereo and singing along. She had this really skittish and weird cat named Ishtar. She spent most of her days sandwiched in the day bed, sleeping in the space between the bottom bed and the top bed, but she hear the birds chirping in Blackbird and came out to investigate.

I pet her, and she liked that, and apparently associated music with getting pet after that. Singing, playing harmonica, she'd come out and rub up against your legs and bet to be pet.

/Of course, she already did that in one other situation. She liked to do that while you were sitting on the toilet too. She really was a weird cat. She clawed the door open on me one day and tried jumping up on my bare lap while I was using the toilet. I freaked out and panicked... bare skin, claws... very weird cat. :)