Each verse of a song starts the pattern, the key of the song is best found at this point. Consider a blues jam. Your solo might start after two verses, longer if a guitar takes the first solo.
Other keys are used but these are the most common, particularly with guitar players. So, finding the correct key is educated guesswork.
First, we review harmonica keys for second position blues. Your harmonica case should be arranged so that these keys are easily located. It helps to take the yellow sticker with the key off the harmonica case and put it on the harmonica, as shown in the picture. While the blues song is going, take a A harmonica and play a 2 hole draw note, very softly so that only you can hear it.
Close your right ear with your right index finger, your harmonica will be easier to hear. Now, does it sound right? If so, then you have a blues in E, and you can prepare mentally for your solo. If the harmonica does not sound right, then play the two hole draw on a D harmonica. Then you probably have a blues in A. If not successful, then try with a C, then an F, then a G, then a Bb harmonica.
The actual key will almost certainly be one of these. You will soon learn to do this quickly. Practice finding the key with this blues track, using the method above. The track is in either E, A, G, or C. Never mind mistakes you make, that is what practice is for. Keep at it until you can find the key reliably. Thank you so much for your thorough reply.
How about a draw? This, in my opinion, is one of the important distinctive little Cajunisms which is also heard on the Cajun diatonic accordion, which is tuned the same way. Thank you, Steve and Sonny Stovepipe. It all makes so much more sense now. Thank you Steve! Thus, it can be stated that POSITION refers to a kind of physical coordinate strictly related to the hole position used to start in construction of a scale?
Hi Paolo, the concept of positions is really just a way of describing the fact that you can play in different keys on one harmonica. In the key to which the harmonica is tuned the key designated on the harp , all of the natural unbent notes belong to the major scale in that key and there is a complete major scale in holes You can see this on the diagram of the tonal layout on a C harp shown above. Using this major scale as the basis for melodies is often referred to as playing in 1st position.
This is why harp players mainly play blues in 2nd position, playing a C harp in the key of G for example. Here the starting point of the scale is not 4-blow, but 2-draw, which is the root note of the draw chord.
Because the harp is a diatonic instrument, choosing a different starting point will automatically give a scale with a different interval pattern, so that it also sounds different. The scale produced by the unbent notes becomes progressively less major sounding and more minor sounding as you move from 1st through 2nd to 3rd to 4th to 5th, and the location of the starting point or root note in each position is of necessity in a different hole.
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If you have questions or notice mistake in the newsfeed, please let us know with the "Ask a Question" form - thank you! C or what? A smidgeon of history: It used to be that harps were tuned differently in different countries. Without touching any more levers, you can now play in the key of C Major and A minor modal If you tune your harp to a different key… Some people tune their harps in F, or Bb because of the kind of music they play. Wanna see a Diagram?
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