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From: MorTone & TPP
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 13:19:01 -0700
Subject: Re: The Star Spangled Banner

I play this song on top of my roof...naked!

It goes over real well on the 4th of July,
and Groundhog day.

sorry, feeling silly today!

~Donnie~

At 03:40 PM 4/7/00 -0400, Samuel J. Gravina wrote:
>I play it in first position in the low octive. I think it is ideal
>there. There are a few places were the song uses draw bends quite
>nicely. It starts like:
>
>2 2> 1> 2> 3> 4> ...
>Oh oh say can you see ...
>
>--------------------------------
>
>Harmonica tablature:
>
>Draw notes are unadorned because they are the most common. The '>'
>character indicates blow notes because it looks like the direction you
>blow the air, and using a 'B' or 'b' can be confused with bending. '+'
>and '-' are used to indicate bending because it raises and lowers the note.
>
> 3 - 3 hole draw
> 3> - 3 hole blow
> 3- - 3 hole draw bent down half step
> 3-- - 3 hole draw bent down whole step
> 6>+++ - 6 hole blow bent up 1 1/2 steps (an overblow)
>
>example:
>
>3 3-- 3< 3-- 3 3 3
>Ma- ry had a lit- tle lamb.
>
>Sam