Harmonica - Blue Skies - Old Video + Sheet Music

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Blue Skies by Irving Berlin played on chromatic harmonica. I added the sheet music so that you can play along, unfortunately the sheet music has an updating issue as you'll see it, but it is enough to follow the melody.

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"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin.
Here are the lyrics:

I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Every day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but theyre not gray anymore

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When youre in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

I should care if the wind blows east or west
I should fret if the worst looks like the best
I should mind if they say it cant be true
I should smile, thats exactly what I do

History

The song was composed in 1926 as a last minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical, Betsy. Although the show only ran for 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 28 encores of the piece from star, Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front row.

In 1927, the music was published and Ben Selvin's recorded version was a #1 hit. That same year, it became the first song to be featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson performed it in The Jazz Singer. 1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title, and two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching #8 and #9 on the pop charts, respectively. Crossing genres, Willie Nelson's recording of "Blue Skies" was a #1 country music hit in 1978.

Recorded Versions * Ben Selvin (1927) * Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra (with vocal by Frank Sinatra) (1941) * Count Basie and his orchestra (with vocal by Jimmy Rushing) (1946) * Bing Crosby (1946) * Benny Goodman and his orchestra (with vocal by Art Lund) (1946) * Frank Sinatra (1946) * The McGuire Sisters (1957) * Ella Fitzgerald (1958) * Jim Reeves (1962) * Willie Nelson (1978) * Rosemary Clooney * Cassandra Wilson (1988) * Lavay Smith & Red Hot Skillet Lickers (1996) * Groove Armada (1999) * Fiona Apple and Brad Mehldau (2002) -- unreleased, but performed at Club Largo. * Brent Spiner performing as Lt. Cmdr. Data, in the 2002 movie Star Trek: Nemesis. * Caetano Veloso (2004)

Selected Appearances in Film * The Jazz Singer (1927) * Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) * Blue Skies (1946) * White Christmas (1954) * Glengary Glen Ross 1994 * With Honors (1994) * Patch Adams (1998) * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) * The Aviator (2004)

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[Basfarmatthijs]

How can u see on the sheet music when to inhale?!

[alliax]

@Basfarmatthijs Strange question which I don't understand in the context of harmonica playing.

[Basfarmatthijs]

@alliax

Hmm, I'm dutch so TV is my best english tutor.

But don't need to inahle (Suck air?) trough the harminco to produce

a different sound then when u would blow trough the harmonica.

(somtimes the notes you need to play are represented by number.

When u need to suck the air, the number had a cirkel around it.)

[alliax]

@Basfarmatthijs Hello, me too english is not my native language. I understood all the words in your question but couldn't make sense of it. Now I understand that you make a mistake, what I show in the video are not tabs for harmonica, they are music sheet, standard music notation, so they won't show if you have to blow or draw (inhale) in your harmonica. You have to know standard music notation and how each note relate to your harmonica holes in order to be able to read and use the graphic.

[ArmyOfTheFifthColumn]

@alliax i think he means how do u know when to inhale? does it say somewhere on the sheet music to inhale?

[alliax]

@ArmyOfTheFifthColumn No it doesn't say on the sheet music. You have to know how the music sheet relate to the harmonica, and then it becomes all clear if you need to inhale or not.

[TheGeno28]

hehe... classy :P

[gcbrign]

@RedSlushie93 He is using a program called band in a box, similar to garage band. It is an accompaniment software that plays any midi file as a backing track. Among other things, you can turn the piano into flute or guitar or just about anything just by changing the patch or voice for a specific track. Midi files are easy to get for free, learn how to use them and you'll never need to pay for backing tracks. I hope this helps.

[OliverdelaRosa]

Very nice!

[ScytheWing0120]

@Basfarmatthijs In the gaps between the notes. :)

[RedSlushie93]

Where did you get the piano backing for this? :)

[paulhallart]

@Basfarmatthijs inhale/exhale is semi instinctual. but with the harp well, u gotta think with what. kinda like a different mind. we're used2breathing EITHER through the mouth or the nose, but if in the other mind u can visualize the part of the throat where the nasal and mouth tubes JOIN UP, then you can BALANCE ur breathing half through the mouth and half or some other fraction through the nose so every time u blow or draw on the harp u take or give extra air nazally. makes it a piece of cake.

[guirexyz]

Music is in your soul!!!!!!!!

[donoteatme]

ew. its good, but since i love this song and have played it so many times on my sax, i know that theres a wrong note around 0:30. Try playing the Ab as a G. That should be correct.