Harvest Moon - AJ Lee style

[wa8ars]

If anyone can play Harvest Moon similar to AJ Lee on Youtube, https://youtu.be/ml22cp4ojHg I would love to see a video of it or any help at all to learn to play this. Thanks in advance
Mike

[Charles E.]

Been discussed before, here is Watchhouse(formally Mandolin Orange)...

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...t=Harvest+Moon

[wa8ars]

Thanks Charley, I've been working on that as well, Mandolin Orange is a favorite Trying to learn some of AJ Lee's style as well
Thanks again
Mike

[Ranald]

Thanks, wa8ars. That's a lovely, understated interpretation of "Harvest Moon." What a voice!

[Old Dog Dave]

AJ and the Brothers Comatose do a really nice job of Neil Young's great song. But, with Emily's understated voice and Andrew's absolutely lovely mandolin playing, my favorite is still Watchhouse. But, I do like AJ's performance a lot--am listening to it even as we speak!

[wa8ars]

Agree, listening again to Orange/Watchhouse...that may be the version I need to figure out and learn. Love them both!

[Mitch Stein]

As an aside, I love what Andrew is playing the most but they play it in F which is only a friend to Emily's voice. AJ plays it in E.

If you are going to be singing it, the original is in D and very friendly to both male and female singers. Maybe it's time to start your journey of figuring out how to voice what you hear on a guitar. This one's not that hard. The notes go pretty slow and YouTube will let you slow it down even more.

[bennyb]

Chordify has a playalong version of AJ and the Bros(Harvest Moon), if that appeals to you.

benny

[Bazz Jass]

Ol' Neil has written some tender songs in his time. This is a real favourite.

[mbruno]

Side topic - I got to see AJ Lee and Blue Sumit in Seattle recently. I never heard her before but my friend was playing with them so I went to see them - really great stuff and happy I went out!

[wa8ars]

Thank you that helps! I'll give this a try

[wa8ars]

Its on my bucket list, I've followed her on youtube for years Also want to see the brothers comatose live

[wa8ars]

Assume you mean Chordie? I found something under Neil Young but not AJ

[bennyb]

Nope, this one

[Bren]

I can't figure out exactly what AJ is playing up the neck there, but I found these simple chords worked for me in the E - F#m - F#m7 bits:

Emaj7 - 8-6-6-0 (D#-G#-d#-e) - you can move the first note up to 9th fret E if would rather have two Es than two D# (the maj 7th), depends how you want to emphasis the chord. To me the 9th fret E sounds better if you're playing solo but the 8th fret maj7th sounds better with guitar backing.

F#m7 - 6-4-4-0 (C# - F# - c# - e) - just the same shape moved down a couple of frets.

For the other chords, just whatever version of A and B/B7 sounds right.
You can see that AJ is mostly moving down to a 1st position E chord for solos and fills.

[wa8ars]

Thank you Bren

[wa8ars]

I keep replaying the watchhouse version of this...loving it

[slickmando]

Great stuff, love the harmonies

[Mitch Stein]

I keep replaying the watchhouse version of this...loving it

Which version? In case you didn't know, there's two. A recent one where the singing is better and an older one that has (IMO) better mandolin.

[wa8ars]

Watched them both but I like the older version