{"id":21,"date":"2011-04-18T23:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T23:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimsharmonica.posterous.com\/shenandoah"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:11:04","slug":"shenandoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/shenandoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenandoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/shenandoah.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/shenandoah.m4a\">https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/audio\/shenandoah.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>First a little background. Shenandoah was one of the first songs I learned to play way back when I was 13 or 14 years old. I&#8217;m playing it now on the same 10 hole Hohner Chromatic &#8220;C&#8221; harmonica I had back then. I&#8217;m using the tongue blocking technique to play single notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/0e1f8-chromonica.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chromonica\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/0e1f8-chromonica.jpg?resize=500%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found the sheet music for Shenandoah on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikifonia.org\/node\/8671\">Wikifonia.org website<\/a>. The cool thing about this site is that you can transpose the music into any key. It was &nbsp;originally in the key of D with two sharps. I have a &#8220;C&#8221; harmonica so I transposed the sheet music to the key of C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/f87fb-shenandoah-scaled-1000.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shenandoah\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/f87fb-shenandoah-scaled-1000.jpg?resize=500%2C588&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the music gives the guitar chords. So, I was able to use the Smart Guitar instrument in Garageband on the iPad to create the guitar accompaniment. I set the the Tempo to 68 beats per minute.&nbsp;I then used my Blue Snowflake USB microphone to record my harmonica in a second track. I did it in real time with no editing. This took a fair amount of practice and several tries. I had to learn to play to a metronome and accompaniment. It takes some getting used to playing in time with feeling and dynamics. I used headphones and monitored both the guitar track and the microphone.<\/p><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Afterwards I set the Pan for the guitar track a little to the left and the Pan for the harmonica a little to the right. This separates the sound into a stereo field and makes it sound like two musicians standing side by side. I also set each tracks&#8217;s echo and reverb independently. Finally I duplicated the first section to make the song repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice the music gives the guitar chords. So, I was able to use the Smart Guitar instrument in Garageband on the iPad to create the guitar accompaniment. I set the the Tempo to 68 beats per minute. 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