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B-blow, D-draw

Whoops (Diatonic D harp)

*This song should be a challenge for you harpists.  If you know your 
octaves real well, it will be a piece of cake, but if not, you better get 
to practicing.  One of Popper's amazing talents is his ability to switch 
from octaves to notes back to octaves really quickly.  An example can be 
seen in the Hook intro.  I have tabbed the first part of the solo and the 
rest is just a blur of 32nd and 64th notes that is impossible to figure 
out and I hereby bow down to Mr. Popper.

Intro:

4-1D slide to  8-5D  8-5B  8-5D  7-4D  7-4B  6B 6B 6B 6B 
(Repeat this over and over until verse....vary the number of times you do 
the 6B run at the end of the riff each time)

Coming out of guitar solo:

Play main riff and every once in a while hold out the 8-5B part and then 
proceed to play the rest of the riff.  Listen and you will know what I am 
talking about.  Then after about 4 or 5 times of playing the main riff go 
to a little interlude on the harp.  It starts off:  6-3D 6-3B 5-2D 5-2B.  
After that run through a bunch of octaves using that pattern of draw blow, 
draw blow.  There is a technique John uses during this part where he 
gently coughs into the harp while he is doing this part.  Give it a try.

Next is a fav part of mine:
In this corner.......
Right after he says "You may start your engines" go to the solo.  It 
begins like this:

slide up to 7D  7B  slide to  8D  6D slide to 7D  7B  8D  8B  9D  8B  8D 7D 7B 
7D warbles along with 6D  6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B6B (that part is tricky)
slide to 9B    9B8B7B  8D7D 7B 7D 6D 6B  6B6D7D8D8B  8D   9D   (after this
good luck on the rest of the solo)


Coming out of solo:
Go back to main riff- a couple of times he plays variations such as these:

4-1D slide to 8-5D  8-5B  8-5D  7-4D  7-4B  9B 9B 9B 9B  6D  7B 9B 9B 9B 9B
4-1D slide to 8-5D  8-5B  8-5D  7-4D  7-4B       9B 9B 10B

After some of these variations (listen to the cd and find out where they 
go), go back to the main riff, and at the end of the song play it 4x.