Does anybody know what key harmonica Mick is playing during Midnight Rambler? Thanks guys!

"She's got a mind of her own, yeah, and she use it mighty fine..."

Would that be F#?

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

That would be an E

So britney, the harp is a fifth lower and not higher?

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

1 and a half steps lower for playing most blues. In the same key for the "Dylan" sound. Jagger explains it well on that fan club DVD from last year.

"Midnight Rambler" is in the key of B....I figured the harmonica key was the same but perhaps not.......anywayz, the song is in B, so if you know anything about harmonica's, maybe you can figure it out....

Song is in B so it is a fourth higher.

H for harmonica? Sigh. I want to know something about the technical side of music so I can hang out with the big boys.

4th higher or 5th lower = same thing LOL.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

E!!

A E Harp. I would recommend getting an Lee Oscar Harp (former harp player for War). Expensive, but one of the sharpest and fullest sounding harps out there! And the reeds are replaceable. This harp really allows you to bend notes as well, more like Mick's current style of harp playing.


BUT IT IS DEFINATELY AN "E" Harp:-)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-17 06:17 by whitem8.

so, it's B,E and F!!!!!!!!!!LOL!

Yep!

No, the song is usually played in B or B flat...for playing blues, or cross harp you count three three notes up from the key the song is played in. So B = E harp. It is a little more tricky when it is B flat, or a minor or major key as some keys on the harp won't fit. Such as in Miss You...but Suger Blue is an incredible harp player and instintively knows how to glide over those notes.

Dylan and Neil Young play mostly straight harp which is the same key the song is in, however, you can only play certain "safe" notes on the harp or it will sound out of key.

Has anyone heard another band covering this song live in concert?

Yeah, the Jerusalem Road Psychadelic Blues Band did a great version live.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-17 17:22 by jamesfdouglas.

whitem8 Wrote:
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> No, the song is usually played in B or B
> flat...for playing blues, or cross harp you count
> three three notes up from the key the song is
> played in. So B = E harp. It is a little more
> tricky when it is B flat, or a minor or major key
> as some keys on the harp won't fit. Such as in
> Miss You...but Suger Blue is an incredible harp
> player and instintively knows how to glide over
> those notes.
>
> Dylan and Neil Young play mostly straight harp
> which is the same key the song is in, however, you
> can only play certain "safe" notes on the harp or
> it will sound out of key.


Yep!

I modeled the vocal style from the 89 versions. Not that I sound anything like MJ!

My old band the Outsiders used to cover this in the Mid 80s...fans loved it...Better to do the hard with a Shure(520) 1952 Green Bullet microphone...with reverb cranked...

Its a blast to play that one...

JR

whitem8 is right. Cross harp in blues uses the fourth. It contains the notes of the minor pentatonic scale.

Sorry, no more music theory, I'm starting to sound like I know what's going on! Scary!

Yeah, the Green Bullet cranks out a really raunchy sound that is frigging great! I have the one with the volume control on the mike sounds great! Love it!!!

Definitely E as previously explained cross position (suck, suck as opposed to blow, blow - pardonnz moi le double entendre) for bending notes, which happens a lot with Midnight Rambler.

So stick with E.

Yeah, it's E. The problem with playing in the key (here, is that you can't play the blue notes. In a blues scale the 3rds and 7ths are flatted. Probably can find lots of info by just typing "cross harp" into a search engine...

It's an 'E' harp to play a song in the key of 'B', unless you want that 'bright' Dylan sound, in which case you want a B harp!

If you want the Rambler to sound right, even with an 'E' harp, you gotta BEND those notes!

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