Hi, Liam Ward at LearnTheHarmonica.com. I'm here with another Saturday song
study for you this week we're going to be doing Benny Kings stand by me okay so
stand by me by Benny King this is one of my favorite songs the lovely songs blow
on the harmonica I usually use AC harmonica this time I'm going to be
using an a harmonica and the tab obviously will apply to any key
harmonica so give it a go and the only reason I'm using an A this week is
because I've got backing track I want to play along too and it's in the original
key of the song so an a harmonica needed for that and so let's go right ahead I'm
going to put the backing track on and play through the tab first and then
we'll go through it note for note
okay so that's the tab that we're going to go through you'll see it on your
screen at any moment now and so as I said before on an a harmonica but feel
free to follow the tab have you got if you only go see or different key
harmonica and and we'll start at the very beginning a very good place to
start so uh when the night has come five blow six blow six draw five blow six
blow and the next line and the land is dark 4 blow 4 draw five blow four draw
four blow so you put those two lines together once more once more
ah
and the next time and and the moon is the only light we'll see so I've
simplified it a little bit from Benny King singing because he kind of bends up
and down a few of those notes and it'd be a lot of notes so there's space to
fill in a few more notes if you want to add these in but I've got and the moon
just simply is 4 blow 4 draw 5 blow mmm is the only I've just got three notes
for that four blow five blow four draw and then light will see is for drawer
for drawer for blow so that line in full a one two a one more time okay so and
now we've got oh I won't be afraid now I won't be afraid and so five blow
six by six draw five blow six by six draw and then four no I won't be afraid
again up simplified it a little bit from the vocal um kind of ups and downs and
just - I know I won't be afraid I just got five blow four drawer for drawer for
blow
so that line in full okay so this final line before the chorus and just as long
as you stand stand by me so I've got an foe for just as long
I've actually got 4 blow 4 draw 5 blow 4 draw 4 blow so so long I've got derp
derp derp so I have got a little bit of a run down there so following a vocal a
bit more truly so those first five notes are all for just as long and then we've
got as you stand stand by me four blow five blow four draw and then stand by me
sorry I've sang the wrong notes five blow 4 draw four blow so the line in
full and once more and one - Dean sorry one - Dean okay so now we've got the
chorus and
so six plus six draw six blow seven blow seven draw so that's so darling darling
pass degrees and then so that's extraordinary key read on that six draw
there we go so draw blow draw blow draw and then and stare stand stand by me 504
draw for blow so that line in full we just got one more line Oh stand stand by
me stand by me so that's oh stand five blow four or
four blow and then it's just same again five blow 4 draw four blow twice so that
final line is just that three times and it's just the timing of it that altered
slightly from one to the next and so that's a verse in a chorus of stand by
me I hope that helps you get a bit of a grips on it as I say
simplified the vocal a slight bit on a few of those lines just to make it
easier to play so there's a bit of room to add a few notes in but good luck with
this I hope you enjoy it and I'll be back next week with another Saturday
song study Cheers