Night Owl Blues (for the 6 incl Aussie!)
by Lovin Spoonful (John Sebastian) · posted by TIN_MAN
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.
Tab
Hey Y’all from the Tin Man
Well Folks if you liked or loved the song and my tab “Look What You’ve Done, or your one of the 6 (Aussie you BASTEEERRRDD flea bitten Varmint!!! included)that requested that I do this tab. Well then here it is & your gonna go NUTS for this one.
To introduce it
The Harpist is John Sebastian (leader singer and harpist of the 60’s Rock Group THE LOVIN SPOONFUL. This was a b side Vinyl instrumental to one of their big hits, "What A Day For A Daydream".
If you are unfamiliar with it then I implore you to go to YOUTUBE and type in Lovin spoonful NIGHT OWL BLUES and be blown away people!!! You can also find "Look What you’ve done" by the rolling stones there or download them also from something like Limewire. If you’re a Lovin Fan then there are two others; Jug Band Intro and of course “lonely” Amy’s Theme from the movie. If you want the tab to that one look up Aussie’s Tabs as he has already done “Lonely” (thanks Aussie it was wonderful)
OKAY LETS GET TO IT
This is a Cross Harp song the band is in the key of A so you are gonna need a D HARP TO PLAY THIS!!!!
this track is just 1:45 of NON STOP HARMONICA which posed several challenges in tabulating. Basically folks what I’ve done is try to break the riffs down in segments and each line of my tab is a Riff!!
If you all bare with me, I’m gonna make audio for you folks, where I’ll break down the riffs for you and how to play it. Think of it as an instructional to help you through this one. but i wont do the whole song just key and difficult bits. ive posted two already to deal with the opening riff. Ill post more as i get time!
Ohh and one last thing, as I stated in the forum post
I’VE DONE THIS BY EAR SO GIMME A BREAK !!!!!
o= overblow
fsb= FULL STEP BEND
hsb= HALF STEP BEND
dwah= to dwah means to put a tiny bend on it, start clean go slightly bent and come back! i find it's best achieved by saying DWAH on the inbreath some people call it scooping
warble= shake your head NOT your hands between two notes!
HERE IT IS !!!!
-2,-3,4,-3-3,3,-2,-4b,3
-3&-4b (hold bend),-4o (so go from the bend to the overblow)
-4,-4,-4,-4-,-3,-4,-3b
-4,-4,-4,-3,-4 hold & shake (hand vibrato)
-4,-3,-4,-3,-3hsb(Dwah or scoop it),-2
-2,-2,3,-4,-3,-4,-3, Warble -3 & -4, 4, Warble -4 & -5
-5,-4,-3,3,-3fsb (Dwah or scoop it to get same sound) 2
-4b (scoop or dwah)-3
-2,-2,-3,-4,-5,-4,-3-4,-3,-2
-4,-4,-4,-4,-3,-4
-4,-5, draw slide to -2, -2b (Dwah or scoop bend)2
3,4, -2b (Dwah or scoop bend)2
-2, -2, -3, -3fsb,-3fsb,-3fsb,-3fsb,-3fsb,-3fsb,-3fsb (hold and shake or hand vibrato
-6 (hold and say wee times 5 on in breath)-5, -4, -3b
-3,-3,-3,-3,-2fsb (dwah or scoop it)2
-4,-4,-4,-3,-4 to -4b
Warble -3 & -4 times 4
Warble -3 & -4 times 4
Warble -3 & -4 once then
-4 hold and hand vibrato or shake then
-6,6,-5, -4, -3b dwah, (dwah or scoop bend)-2
-3b,-3b,-3b hold &
Now warble between -3b & -4b times 3
-2,2, -3b hold it (& shake or hand vibrato)
-4,-4,-4,-3,-2,-2fsb,-2fsb, ,-2fsb,-2fsb,2fsb,
-1b,-1b,-1b,-1 hold
Warble -2 & -3 times 3
Warble -2 & -3 times 3 then -4,-5,5 hold
Now do a slow DWAH on the inbreath on -4 and then
-5 to end
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound
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