Yolanda (Harmonica)

1 year ago
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"Yolanda" by Los Gatos Negros is one of my favorite songs. I've wanted to learn to play this Cumbia tune on the harmonica for years. I started trying it out last year in the Fall and realized that it's in a weird key (B) and I'd need to play it on a chromatic harmonica. Then my cheap-arse beginner chromatic had a reed go flat as I was learning the song. I had to go through literally 3 different harmonica orders via Amazon after that to finally land on a new chromatic harmonica that didn't have rattling reeds!

After all the technical difficulties, the months of waiting on Amazon shipments/refunds, my earnest but amateur attempts at learning this song, I've started to feel like I'm "stuck" on it, and it's time to just record it and move on, even though I'm doing a pretty mediocre job of representing it. Hopefully I can come back to this at some point in the future when I'm a better player. If you want to hear the real thing you can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5q9UIgxIo

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