I’m not going to kid you – this reel kicked my ass.. I had to fight tooth and nail with some of the phrases in this tune to find one good way to play the riff that would not fall apart at speed. The good new for you is that if you try out my ideas you might save yourself a lot of trial and error AND develop some great chops that are transferrable to other gnarly tunes or riffs…

This is also a preview of a platform for teaching that I am learning to use – Soundslice – Soundslice combines everything I llike about the Transcribe app (one of those slow-downer apps that lets you loop phrases) plus the use of sheet music and tab.

The Soundslice play along version of this tune…

Please note – in the second line of “lyrics you will see M – this means the middle of my mouth and is also the pursed lips embouchure. The R or L refers to the right or left side of my mouth as exposed by tongue blocking…

This tune is played on a Paddy Richter key of G harmonica.