Man With a Harmonica (with theme melody)

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Listen to the song— a recording linked by the tab’s author

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

-6b  -6   -6b 6 -6b
-6b  -5  -6b   -6 -6b -6 -6b
etc. etc.

-4 -6 5
(5) 5 -5 5 -4 5 -4  -6  -7 6
5 6  -6  6 6  5 6 7 7  -7  7 -7 6
5 -5  -4 -7 -6 6 -5 -4  4 4

The first part is not unlike the tab infamis has posted (thank you very very much, you helped my bending greatly when I started from scratch five months ago - even made the whole thing fun). The second part, however, is the melody from the song that hasn't been posted here before. It starts at 1.55 in the link.

There are many different instruments in the piece so everything doesn't translate well to harmonica. But if I come up with how to involve more stuff, I'll be sure to add it here. Btw, the (5) is in the original song but I thought this sounded better without it.

I still have trouble writing bends down properly (I play only by ear and don't even know much about notes), so I didn't include any in the melody. My apologies, but feel free to experiment.

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound