Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson - Detailed Visual Tab (Low D)

Sonny is using a Hohner Marine Band 364 Low D in this video. I’m a big fan of transcribing songs for lots of different instruments and I wanted to challenge myself by tackling this monster of a harmonica tune. A few notes about this transcription... I) Can you use this video to learn the tune? Well.. kinda. The purpose of making this video wasn’t so much to teach the tune, it was more about showing folks just how much is going on ’behind-the-scenes’ when an experience player picks up a harmonica and starts to play. If you did want to try learning the tune using this vid, you could use youtube’s ’slow down’ feature to bring the speed down to 50%. The visual tab goes by pretty quickly at full speed. Why didn’t I include a text tab? Well, this level of detail is impossible to show in a text tab. Once again, this isn’t supposed to be a ’tutorial’ video. 2) Yes, Sonny Boy is doing a lot more tongue-blocking then what is shown in the visual tab. I realized