Comments on: Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring – J.S. Bach [..with tab]

By: Wilf

Wilf — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:37:09 +0000

Hiya Murray!
Thanks for dropping by the Surgery. Buddy’s William Tell is in the pipeline.. We’ll see about the overblows. Glad you checked out Terry McMillan too. He was incredibly talented. Meanwhile great lesson today. Looking forward to next time. Meantime try not to stand too long in one place with an apple on your head!
WW

By: Murray

Murray — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:20:19 +0000

Hello Wilf,
I have watched Buddy Greene’s utube video a lot and like his version of the William Tell overture. If you are able to work out a tab for it, that would be great. I know there are versions of it on harptab.com – e.g. http://www.harptab.com/emelody/rt2.php?id=630&mode=Diatonic&key=-12 – but that is only part of it and may not be the same as what Buddy plays. I think overblows may be used as well. Also Terry McMillan has a great version of Amazing Grace on uTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7arOqGZQGx4 – that would be a good version to get a tab to as well. Thanks

By: Carl Sutterby

Carl Sutterby — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:09:33 +0000

Thankyou for fixing the link Captain sir I hope that you enjoy. Christelle has many videos and I think she has an excellent way to improve playing. She videos herself playing along to a variety of songs, that she obviously likes, from standards and blues (with the obvious included, Stormy Monday etc) to classical. It certainly has inspired me to look into less obvious musical styles for inspiration, but it does not get better than the Bach piece.

Wilf, Christelle would appreciate the Jason Ricci comparison, as she is a massive fan of his playing.

By: The Captain

The Captain — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:39:19 +0000

Bach link above now works, chaps.

By: Wilf

Wilf — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:39:16 +0000

Hey Carlos!
Thanks for your message. Christelle is due to peform at this year’s NHL festival next month in Bristol. Details at http://www.harmonica.co.uk Her electric blues playing reminds me very much of Jason Ricci. Of course they are not identical, but the style is similar with that synth effect and overdraws. Couldn’t get the Bach link to work. Maybe you’d be kind enough to check it and let me know, I’d like to hear it. As for Buddy Greene, I will look into this and maybe produce a sequel posting. He plays with great clarity so we should be able to crack it. The middle snippet is Mozart’s Piano Sonata No.16 in C major (k545), his Sonata ‘for beginners’. I have added one of Buddy’s albums to the Music Store meantime.

By: Carl Sutterby

Carl Sutterby — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:31:16 +0000

Wilf, thanks for the post….but it was the Buddy Greene thang that got me. Those scales on the piece crammed in between Jesu and William Tell sound really impressive (I should know it but am having trouble in naming it), I guess 4th position for both that and William Tell, although getting the acuracy on the 3 draw bends is a challenge, no room for error there, do you think he is using overblows or just bends? Now those are two challenging pieces I wish to overcome….how did he do that

I recently saw the Christelle Berthon playing Bachs Oboe Concerto in Dm. There is a clip on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJskfqlbL8 – her playing is superb with excellent tone, proving that classical music can be sweet on a diatonic.