Song Name: | Mistreatin Mama | By: | Jaybird Coleman |
Posted By: | gene | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | Db | Genre: | Blues |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2012-11-02 08:59:29 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | Use this tab as a guide to imitate the audio clip.
Two holes in parentheses (-3 -4) means play them both at the same time. Try not to get very much breath through the second hole, except in the ending riff. The way I do this (We�re all different.) is to do a Billy Idol sneer to reach over to the higher hole. / or indicates a slur. By �Inhale� or �Exhale�, I mean to let a little puff of air in or out with your lips barely touching the harp. To get his vibrato, I do a kind of a nervous jiggle with my belly. First verse: Wail & moan on -4, at one point hitting -5 for a nano-second, then gliss across -3 to -2 (hold the -2). Exhale. -3 -4 -3 -2� -2 Exhale Play the -3 with varying degrees of bend, then go up to -3 unbent and down to -1. Exhale -3 -4 -3 -2� -2 He starts singing about something, here. Second verse: -4 -4 -4 -4� -4� 4 -4� -3 -2 Slight bend...More bend Exhale -3 -4 -3 -3� -3� (-3 -4) Exhale -4 -4 -4 -4� -1 Exhale -3 -2 -4 -3 -2-2�/(-2 -3) Exhale -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4� -4 -3 -2 Exhale -3 -3 -3� 2 (-2 -3) Now he does some more of that singin�. -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4� 5 4 (3 4) Inhale -3 -4 (-3 -2) -2 -2 (Weak on -2) More singin�. -3� -3� -3� -3� -3� -3 -2 Exhale Listen to the clip and imitate his degree of bends. -3 3 -4 (-3� -4�) -4 -3 (-2 -3) --gliss-- Singing again. -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4� -4 -3 -2 Exhale -3 -4 -3 -2 -2 Exhale -3 -3 -3 -3� -4 -1 Exhale -3 -2 -4 (-3� -4�) (-2� -3�) (-2� -3�) �Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm� -4� -4� -4� 4 -4 -3 (-2 -3) Exhale -3 -4 -3 -3 3 (-3 -4) Exhale -3� -3� -3� -3� -3 -2 -1 Exhale -3 -4 -3 -2 -2 Exhale -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4-4� -4 -3 -2 Exhale -3 -4 -3 -2 -2 (2:58) (5 6) (-4 -5) (4 5) (-4 -5) (4 5) -3 (3 4) (2 3) (-2 -3) (2 3) -2 2 -2 |