Re: [Harp-L] Standing at the chromatic

["G. E. Popenoe" <gpopenoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I switched from diatonic to chromatic when I was eighteen. I think I was too
damn ignorant to understand that there should be a pattern difference
between the too. Ignorance is bliss I guess because I picked up the
chromatic and continued with the diatonic too.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:51 PM, <MundHarp@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> _moorcot@xxxxxxxx (mailto:moorcot@xxxxxxx)  writes:
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> The only  answer is to play the thing a lot more so as to develop a proper
> second muscle  memoryI guess that sums it up!
> The late great Douglas Tate told me he simply couldn't play  a harmonica in
> any key except "c"... I guess he had "perfect pitch". He  used a "c"
> chromatic
> pretty well exclusively. (TO PLAY IN ALL KEYS!)
> >From the age of 8 to 13, I played a chromatic only, in "c" and "g"...
> Never
> had a problem jumping from one to the other... Then when I was 13 years
> old, I
>  heard Little Walter, and took up the blues diatonic... I had terrible
> trouble  switching between short harp and chromatic... The difference in
> tuning
> confused  me terribly.
> More than 40 years later, I've "sussed" it...
> It is...SIMPLY... Practice.
> These days I play 50:50 Chromatic and diatonic.
> PS It needn't take YOU 40 odd years. Get out into that wood  shed!
> Best wishes
> John Walden
> London
> England
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