You know I love all your You-tube perfromances, Al, but I have two problems with this one: (1) I think you started playing the approx. 10 notes too soon starting at 0:50 - in my opinion, it's off the beat; the 2nd time you played it, you waited until the right time and it sounds great. (2) I don't think you should have held the last note so long: at 1:58, the chord doesn't seem to include that note - I don't hear it. What chord is that? I know the note is D; is there a D in the chord???? Barry
Muy biénnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! Fantastico y con mucho sentimiento. un 8 de puntuación, pués el 9 y el 10, es para lo practicamente perfecto. Felicidades amigo.
Alliax-as a professional guitarist and bassist (well some days I am. others not so much) I love how Artie Shaw's version of Summertime right over to left field with Janis Joplin and Sam Andrew covering (barely)... the tune. You choice of harp is excellent getting in all the sharps and flats and what a difference it makes.
Thanks for keeping the background track low! Best wishes.
hey i got a question...the 3rd note you play how do you bend it? '' suuuu-meeer tIIIiiiiiime....''...the caps ''i's'',i dont know how else to show you...is it overblow?i cant reach that sound...thanks for posting Mr Harpie guy
I think overblow is like note bending but on a blow note, the tiiiiiiiiime is on a draw note, so it's just a note bending, a change in the tongue/mouth position to bend the note for a while and then take it back where it started before playing the other note in the melody.
thats what i needed to know...that lil sound was wrnog..i was doinng it half tone below the original note...thanks men...post more vids...id like you to show me(us) a song called ''au printemps'' from jacques brel..a belgique singer,ive tryed to make it on my C key diatonic and a few notes arent right...iuf you can and have time..make a vid of this song...thanks a lot man God Bless you
I've been looking for some time to buy music sheet book of songs from jacques brel, like I have from georges brassens and charles aznavour, but cannot find it in the same collection. I just can't play songs for which I don't have music sheet or tabs, because it's too long to find the notes by ear. This song au printemps is not one of the best known from jacques brel, there are so many others songs I'd love to play whenever I'll get a music sheet book.
By the way, sorry but I never let it pass with anybody, God won't bless me because the god thing is just bullshit, things you are being taught when you're a child born in a family where parents have also been taught this religious thing in their childhood. The only way out of this madness is to protect children from the stupid beliefs of their parents. This is not happening anytime soon.
Overblowing is a technique where you change your embrouchure to snap the note up either a minor third or a major econd depending on the hole. It's not a gradual change like bending, it sort of pops into a different note.
I'm not saying that quality and experience don't matter. I'm not a fool, most of the youtube channels I subscribe to for instance are of experienced people. What I'm saying is that internet at large and youtube in particular allows everyone to publish their content, poor or excellent, and that I don't understand when people think poor content shouldn't be published. That's all I'm saying, it's because internet isn't ressources limited that everyone is welcome to post their "crap" :-)
Please try to think about "why not posting". Can't you see how pointless it is to say that I shouldn't post if I can't improve on him (or any other talented harmonica player by the way) ? It's like if youtube's ressources were limited and I should save space for others, are you kidding or what?
Sorry I didn't see your age, I guess that perhaps explains it, because younger people know that internet is full of less-than-bad covers of all sorts of songs, and that doesn't bother them, that's the richness of internet, you can find all sorts of things, anytime, unlike TV where content is strictly restricted to a selected fews. I hope those old points of view of filtered content will never be implemented to the internet despite numerous attempts.
Could you please send me the back track of summertime. I really liked this version with the trombone at the back. (or just a video with back tracking I will record just the Audio). thanks
Dude..I've been watching some of your vid. and all of them are awesome. Is there a page where I can get the "tabs" or notes of the songs you play? I would like to play them all ;)
sounds great. i am a blues harp player mostly, but recently forced myself to start learning the diatonic. I am playing with a Chrometta 12.
how are you getting the bending sound on the draw 7 on the summer -TIIIIIME? it sounds just like a draw bend on a blues harp, but I can't seem to get the inflection down. any tip for a beginner chromatic player? also on the draw 5...
You certainly know how difficult it is to explain to someone else how to bend a note! But with chrometta and other chromatics I've noticed that you should try everything SOFTLY, if you know how to bend a note on a diatonic, try slowly on a chromatic, from normal position to a note bending position and stop when it doesn't work anymore. You cannot bend the chromatic as hard as a diatonic, not even 50% as hard !
fantastic. i really enjoyed that. i'm a beginner (diatonic), and other harp players tell me to stay away from chromatics. you make it sound so simple. is it necessary, do you think, to master the diatonic before getting good results on the chromatic?
Hahaha, if it was necessary I wouldn't play at all, because I choose chromatic BECAUSE I was getting nowhere with the diatonic! The chromatic has all the notes in one instrument, I don't need to learn to bend the note, and the holes are bigger! I'm still bad with the diatonic because I didn't practise!
Hi, I don't have background with other instrument, I now read music enough to play with the harmonica by training a little before, but I've learnt in many years, simply by writing my own tablature over real sheet music. I would advice to spend the time and effort to learn it as it saves times afterwards, but I was too lazy to learn it seriously, so I just learnt it by doing the transcriptions over years.
The American people is one bosta (with rare excessões), but to hear jazz, is excessively (obviously has influence estrangeira)e the musica Harmonica - Summertime is a test indissoluvel, hears, the false puritanos and pretense owners of the world, do not have inteligencia capacity nor to create such musica
My expensive alliax, does not import its nationality, with certainty in its country, you must be illiterate, therefore I will not lose time with its person, wants to appear? it hangs a watermelon in the neck, you it thinks very and it does not know what it says.
hy I' m a beginner player, I started playing harmonica 4 months ago after I had seen your video of Brassens' "Je me suis fait tout petit".
I started to play with a chinese 4 octaved harmonica that someone gave me as gift ten years ago and I had never played until last july, Now I' ve a chromonica 270. I love play it. I have to tank you!!!
Ps How you can bend on chromatic harmonica?, I thought it was impossible.
Hi, I'm happy that you started playing the chromatic and that you work on it, because I love listening to other chromatic players on youtube. I think we can blend also on chromatic but way less than diatonic, so you do the same as with diatonic but a version "light" if you do it as hard as a diatonic then it won't work, you need to do it smoothly on a chromatic.
Thanks for the great music. Your playing is just beautiful. Can you recommend any books or lessons for someone wanting to learn to play the chromonica?
Hi, thanks, I answered your other comment already. I can just tell you what I did, after learning to play the basics with a method + CD, I searched for music sheets of some of my favorite songs and painfully tried to transcribe the music into tab notation and then play it along a mp3, and then little by little I now can read music sheet directly and I have better technic than before, that's about it!
what about the hohner special 20?? i heard that's good for beginners? argh i dunno which one to get...:! atm i only have this £1.99 one which obv isn't very good (high and low notes don't work without much force)
I don't know about the hohner special 20. I know that Hohner CX12 is very good to the lips and has a nice touch feeling, but I don't play mine anymore because of some broken notes and I didn't fix it. I like Hohner Chrometta 14 enough so that I can play only this one.
The Hohner Special 20 is a diatonic harmonica. I have one and really like it actually. But I have way too many harmonicas myself. I like the Chrometta 14 like alliax uses for a good chromatic harmonica (I bought it after watching his videos).
One of my all time favorites,, Love the way you play. I'm just a beginner but i have been listening and learning how you play Thanx for video cant wait to find more of your stuff to listen to
You're welcome.. I'm also selling a DVD with all my videos in higher sound and image quality. Anyway, I'll try and record some more before the end of the month
ur really good!!! I've never been much of a harmonica kind of person, but I think I'm gonna get one now that you've showed what obvious hard work pays off for. Thanx!!!
Hi, if you do then don't the same mistake as I by mischoosing your instrument to start. So my advice for you is either the hohner chrometta 12 or the hohner CX-12 more pricey but very nice too!
Man, I would have sworn you were bald!
theknightlynews 2 weeks ago
Cool:)
kimbony0aimothy 2 months ago
ohh. . .i thought it was Summertime from Sublime
cstar75 1 year ago
Another fine (professional) performance, I like it very much and hope you will continue sending your videos on the net. Superb. Thank you. Ciao.
MrEliott0 1 year ago
Can this be played on a chrometta 8 harmonica?
chrpcyp 1 year ago
@chrpcyp I'm not sure the range (2 octaves) is enough, but maybe.
alliax 1 year ago
You know I love all your You-tube perfromances, Al, but I have two problems with this one: (1) I think you started playing the approx. 10 notes too soon starting at 0:50 - in my opinion, it's off the beat; the 2nd time you played it, you waited until the right time and it sounds great. (2) I don't think you should have held the last note so long: at 1:58, the chord doesn't seem to include that note - I don't hear it. What chord is that? I know the note is D; is there a D in the chord???? Barry
landztranz 1 year ago
Wow absolutlet fabulous! I play harmonica by ear but you are a natural!
AllisonInDreamland 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing man, much appreciated. You remind me how nice it is to actually play something. I'm sure you always enjoy it, youtube or not.
elbozz 1 year ago
it's so hard playing a chromatic when you're used to a ten holer, nice and clean
fattrucker01 2 years ago
Muy biénnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! Fantastico y con mucho sentimiento. un 8 de puntuación, pués el 9 y el 10, es para lo practicamente perfecto. Felicidades amigo.
rocosulf 2 years ago
qUE ENVIDIA, YA ME GUSTARIA TOCAR COMO TU FELICIDADES
rocosulf 2 years ago
wow!
where's your hat?
miracluzlee 2 years ago 2
I was so young and foolish 3 years ago, I must have left it at a wild party somewhere..
alliax 2 years ago
Alliax-as a professional guitarist and bassist (well some days I am. others not so much) I love how Artie Shaw's version of Summertime right over to left field with Janis Joplin and Sam Andrew covering (barely)... the tune. You choice of harp is excellent getting in all the sharps and flats and what a difference it makes.
Thanks for keeping the background track low! Best wishes.
MikeInTheValley 2 years ago
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MikeInTheValley 2 years ago
someone have to put him on Business urgent. He is really good
GraceBarra 2 years ago
Please NO!! I don't want to work :-)
alliax 2 years ago
Alliax, how did I miss this one? Great job on this and you handled those notes beautifully! Jammin' job.. ! Thanks.. JJ
JukeJunkies 2 years ago
hey i got a question...the 3rd note you play how do you bend it? '' suuuu-meeer tIIIiiiiiime....''...the caps ''i's'',i dont know how else to show you...is it overblow?i cant reach that sound...thanks for posting Mr Harpie guy
Ps:ALWAYS WEAR HATS...THATS THE STYLE ISN'T IT?
bless
PayoFyah 2 years ago
I think overblow is like note bending but on a blow note, the tiiiiiiiiime is on a draw note, so it's just a note bending, a change in the tongue/mouth position to bend the note for a while and then take it back where it started before playing the other note in the melody.
alliax 2 years ago
thats what i needed to know...that lil sound was wrnog..i was doinng it half tone below the original note...thanks men...post more vids...id like you to show me(us) a song called ''au printemps'' from jacques brel..a belgique singer,ive tryed to make it on my C key diatonic and a few notes arent right...iuf you can and have time..make a vid of this song...thanks a lot man God Bless you
PayoFyah 2 years ago
I've been looking for some time to buy music sheet book of songs from jacques brel, like I have from georges brassens and charles aznavour, but cannot find it in the same collection. I just can't play songs for which I don't have music sheet or tabs, because it's too long to find the notes by ear. This song au printemps is not one of the best known from jacques brel, there are so many others songs I'd love to play whenever I'll get a music sheet book.
alliax 2 years ago
ok...post them whenever you get the music sheet tabs...ill be patiently waiting..
PayoFyah 2 years ago
By the way, sorry but I never let it pass with anybody, God won't bless me because the god thing is just bullshit, things you are being taught when you're a child born in a family where parents have also been taught this religious thing in their childhood. The only way out of this madness is to protect children from the stupid beliefs of their parents. This is not happening anytime soon.
alliax 2 years ago
badd
ELIJA40 1 year ago
Overblowing is a technique where you change your embrouchure to snap the note up either a minor third or a major econd depending on the hole. It's not a gradual change like bending, it sort of pops into a different note.
Muzikman127 2 years ago
no hat?!?!?
STENCHBURG 2 years ago
maybe I was tired, it was a long time ago, I was so young and foolish :-)
alliax 2 years ago
you have a great collection of hats
STENCHBURG 2 years ago
Well yes,that is a fair comment,although if you negate quality and experience,what's left.let's hear from you in say,30 years.
nobbler1 3 years ago
I'm not saying that quality and experience don't matter. I'm not a fool, most of the youtube channels I subscribe to for instance are of experienced people. What I'm saying is that internet at large and youtube in particular allows everyone to publish their content, poor or excellent, and that I don't understand when people think poor content shouldn't be published. That's all I'm saying, it's because internet isn't ressources limited that everyone is welcome to post their "crap" :-)
alliax 3 years ago
yes,I agree,but what I am saying is that if you cannot improve on him don't post it.
nobbler1 3 years ago
Please try to think about "why not posting". Can't you see how pointless it is to say that I shouldn't post if I can't improve on him (or any other talented harmonica player by the way) ? It's like if youtube's ressources were limited and I should save space for others, are you kidding or what?
alliax 3 years ago
Sorry I didn't see your age, I guess that perhaps explains it, because younger people know that internet is full of less-than-bad covers of all sorts of songs, and that doesn't bother them, that's the richness of internet, you can find all sorts of things, anytime, unlike TV where content is strictly restricted to a selected fews. I hope those old points of view of filtered content will never be implemented to the internet despite numerous attempts.
alliax 3 years ago
Best left to Larry Adler
nobbler1 3 years ago
Yes but he's dead.
alliax 3 years ago
dont know you...but that was great my friend
lisewasp 3 years ago
Very nice tone.
officedweller 3 years ago
Great Job alliax.
Could you please send me the back track of summertime. I really liked this version with the trombone at the back. (or just a video with back tracking I will record just the Audio). thanks
00zobi00 3 years ago
Hi, it's a band in a box file, send me an email and I'll look if I still have it somewhere.
alliax 3 years ago
no hat!
:O
PayoFyah 3 years ago
Dude..I've been watching some of your vid. and all of them are awesome. Is there a page where I can get the "tabs" or notes of the songs you play? I would like to play them all ;)
bencho8787 3 years ago
Hi, thank you. Unfortunately there's no page with all tabs, a lot of music I play are midi files, paper books and BIAB files.
alliax 3 years ago
nice. do you know where i could find the notes for this song on chromatic?
itsatubby1 3 years ago
I just had WaltP do it on harptabs!
Enjoy,
LA
lacruiser2 3 years ago
u rock
lorlproductions 3 years ago
Wow no hat! Gettin brave,lol!!! Ur ace tho
EdinSteve7nil 3 years ago 2
i play a chromonica myself, they are definately nicer than your diatonic.
swkavin 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. It's truly perfection and inspired me to try an a capella version.
Thanks again,
HFH
HumanFrenchHorn 3 years ago
sounds great. i am a blues harp player mostly, but recently forced myself to start learning the diatonic. I am playing with a Chrometta 12.
how are you getting the bending sound on the draw 7 on the summer -TIIIIIME? it sounds just like a draw bend on a blues harp, but I can't seem to get the inflection down. any tip for a beginner chromatic player? also on the draw 5...
CentreStageFilms 3 years ago
sorry, i meant "recently forced myself to start learning the chromatic"
CentreStageFilms 3 years ago
You certainly know how difficult it is to explain to someone else how to bend a note! But with chrometta and other chromatics I've noticed that you should try everything SOFTLY, if you know how to bend a note on a diatonic, try slowly on a chromatic, from normal position to a note bending position and stop when it doesn't work anymore. You cannot bend the chromatic as hard as a diatonic, not even 50% as hard !
alliax 3 years ago
thanks. good advice. your fast version of this song is also amazing, as is moon river. you are an inspiration to all of us.
chessieboy 4 years ago
fantastic. i really enjoyed that. i'm a beginner (diatonic), and other harp players tell me to stay away from chromatics. you make it sound so simple. is it necessary, do you think, to master the diatonic before getting good results on the chromatic?
chessieboy 4 years ago
Hahaha, if it was necessary I wouldn't play at all, because I choose chromatic BECAUSE I was getting nowhere with the diatonic! The chromatic has all the notes in one instrument, I don't need to learn to bend the note, and the holes are bigger! I'm still bad with the diatonic because I didn't practise!
alliax 4 years ago
wow. thanks for responding -- that is really good to know. may i ask another? do read music? do you have a background with other instruments?
chessieboy 4 years ago
Hi, I don't have background with other instrument, I now read music enough to play with the harmonica by training a little before, but I've learnt in many years, simply by writing my own tablature over real sheet music. I would advice to spend the time and effort to learn it as it saves times afterwards, but I was too lazy to learn it seriously, so I just learnt it by doing the transcriptions over years.
alliax 4 years ago
hola, has tocado "I wish you love" y "the look of Love"?
Soy la tia
entiendes bien el español?
guille988 4 years ago
no soy guille988.. soy la tia, no se mucho de you tube pero envie el mensaje, sorry
guille988 4 years ago
Está bien :-)
alliax 4 years ago
bueno... muy bueno, sigue asi!!
guille988 4 years ago
Gracias por su observación.
alliax 4 years ago
The American people is one bosta (with rare excessões), but to hear jazz, is excessively (obviously has influence estrangeira)e the musica Harmonica - Summertime is a test indissoluvel, hears, the false puritanos and pretense owners of the world, do not have inteligencia capacity nor to create such musica
452077469 4 years ago
I'm sorry I don't understand all your comment because I miss some vocabulary, but just to let you know that I'm not from America. Bye.
alliax 4 years ago
My expensive alliax, does not import its nationality, with certainty in its country, you must be illiterate, therefore I will not lose time with its person, wants to appear? it hangs a watermelon in the neck, you it thinks very and it does not know what it says.
452077469 4 years ago
hy I' m a beginner player, I started playing harmonica 4 months ago after I had seen your video of Brassens' "Je me suis fait tout petit".
I started to play with a chinese 4 octaved harmonica that someone gave me as gift ten years ago and I had never played until last july, Now I' ve a chromonica 270. I love play it. I have to tank you!!!
Ps How you can bend on chromatic harmonica?, I thought it was impossible.
focault80 4 years ago
Hi, I'm happy that you started playing the chromatic and that you work on it, because I love listening to other chromatic players on youtube. I think we can blend also on chromatic but way less than diatonic, so you do the same as with diatonic but a version "light" if you do it as hard as a diatonic then it won't work, you need to do it smoothly on a chromatic.
alliax 4 years ago
Alliax,
Thanks for the great music. Your playing is just beautiful. Can you recommend any books or lessons for someone wanting to learn to play the chromonica?
Thanks...Franko
lakecharlesfrankie 4 years ago
Hi, thanks, I answered your other comment already. I can just tell you what I did, after learning to play the basics with a method + CD, I searched for music sheets of some of my favorite songs and painfully tried to transcribe the music into tab notation and then play it along a mp3, and then little by little I now can read music sheet directly and I have better technic than before, that's about it!
alliax 4 years ago
what about the hohner special 20?? i heard that's good for beginners? argh i dunno which one to get...:! atm i only have this £1.99 one which obv isn't very good (high and low notes don't work without much force)
lizzysg1 4 years ago
I don't know about the hohner special 20. I know that Hohner CX12 is very good to the lips and has a nice touch feeling, but I don't play mine anymore because of some broken notes and I didn't fix it. I like Hohner Chrometta 14 enough so that I can play only this one.
alliax 4 years ago
The Hohner Special 20 is a diatonic harmonica. I have one and really like it actually. But I have way too many harmonicas myself. I like the Chrometta 14 like alliax uses for a good chromatic harmonica (I bought it after watching his videos).
Pigglies 4 years ago
I LOVE it! I think you would look better with a pair of my unnies on your head, but then, I am a perv*L*....GREAT job!
dressagegal 4 years ago
What type of music could i play with a Chrometta 10?
Comuna 4 years ago
lots.all you want
alliax 4 years ago
One of my all time favorites,, Love the way you play. I'm just a beginner but i have been listening and learning how you play Thanx for video cant wait to find more of your stuff to listen to
RyanUlriche 4 years ago
You're welcome.. I'm also selling a DVD with all my videos in higher sound and image quality. Anyway, I'll try and record some more before the end of the month
alliax 4 years ago
u r 1 friggin unique individual..
sleeplessintokyo 4 years ago
Thanx 4 the advice!
chicomebava 4 years ago
ur really good!!! I've never been much of a harmonica kind of person, but I think I'm gonna get one now that you've showed what obvious hard work pays off for. Thanx!!!
chicomebava 4 years ago
Hi, if you do then don't the same mistake as I by mischoosing your instrument to start. So my advice for you is either the hohner chrometta 12 or the hohner CX-12 more pricey but very nice too!
alliax 4 years ago
Great. What Key?? and..Is that a Golden Melody??
Comuna 4 years ago
it's always the same harmonica: hohner chrometta 14 in C
alliax 4 years ago
Beautiful!!!
Greetings from Spain
Indioiberico 4 years ago
Thanks from China
alliax 4 years ago
I wish i could play like that you make it look so easy.. brilliant sound thanx gonna get mine out now and have a go
RyanUlriche 4 years ago
Nice playing, I'm glad you're still sticking with it.
bluezboy2 4 years ago
o ok thanks!
eanlover 4 years ago
where did you get that midi file?
eanlover 4 years ago
i don't remember now, just googled it!
alliax 4 years ago
Wow. Fantastic! Thank you for all your videos and for ignoring 'negative' comments. What joy you bring with your playing!
meggiblu 4 years ago
Straight up LOVEd it!!!!
okwrite2me 5 years ago
Larry Adler would also enjoy this
GHMisterT 5 years ago
would have... unfortunately he's not with us anymore... anyone has Toots email address? :-)
alliax 5 years ago
Bravo! You really give it soul! Nice background track, too. Is it a CD?
hwycine 5 years ago
Hello, thank you, no it's not a CD, it's a midi file.
alliax 5 years ago
WICKED!
LOVE IT!
walsham 5 years ago
fantastic playing. thankd for good time
birogess 5 years ago
You're welcome!
alliax 5 years ago
Whoa, bruddah! Just when I thought nobody cared about the harmonica anymore! I was floored!
Starlight1010 5 years ago
If you go to the harmonica group on youtube you'll see more of harmonica amateurs.
alliax 5 years ago
Wow how cool is this? TOO COOL !
Timinator62 5 years ago
Great playing ...what key harmonica are you playing.I like the sound
aaaaaoldman 5 years ago
Thanks, it's a Hohner Chrometta 14 holes in C
alliax 5 years ago
Nice intonation and vibrato.
orlandofriend 5 years ago
Nice Job, Toots would be proud.
janprimus 5 years ago
Found this by your video response to Troubleclef's guitar version of this song. I absolutely love a good harmonica... and youre very good ! Kudos
Clereece 5 years ago
Bravo!! I love you!!
wwwHUJUHcom 5 years ago