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Harmonica Lessons: "Ave Maria" - Bach/Gounod: G Harp

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[MUSIC]
This is Ave Maria which

uses a prelude by Bach as

the underlying structure.

And then Gounod wrote this beautiful
melody that goes over the top.

I'm playing it on a G harmonica.

It has two overblows in it,
one the fifth hole for C sharp, and

one the fourth hole for B flat.

And it does have an eight-bar
introduction I believe,

where you're gonna just
hear the piano by itself.

Four bars.

[MUSIC]

Okay.

Well, [LAUGH] can't say much about that.

What's a good Jewish boy
gonna say about that.

So that's a very beautiful
melody I have to say.

I tried to sing it on harmonica.

And there's words I'm looking
at the music a little bit.

I've memorized it in the past, but I
wanted to make sure that I didn't play any

wrong notes, so I did glance
down every once in awhile at it.

And it's really in G major,
it's really pretty simple,

except that these overblows
are very exposed and

you really have to hit them in a very
convincing and meaningful way.

And I try to get the most out of it.

And if I can bend a note,
a nuance up to a note.

[MUSIC]
I won't do it like a blues singer, but

I'll do it a lot of opera singers
don't hit the notes dead on.

They'll, [SOUND] they'll
scoot up to an O2.

Because it's an universal thing,
I mean expression isn't square.

It doesn't stop when you
have music in front of you.

You have to interpret the music and
bring your own personality and soul to it.

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