Re: [Harp-L] Looking for Dixie Tab in 2nd position + others

[Charles Faron <charfaron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you can use this as a great exercise in transposing 1st to  2nd position.

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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:18 PM, "Opus314 ." <opus314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I like to  learn tunes by ear but after I have played something in 1st
> position for awhile and try then to learn it in 2nd position... somewhere
> along the line I find I have switched inadvertent back to 1st position.
> 
> So I'm looking for some common and simple melodies that one may have first
> learned in 1st position... but tabbed out in 2nd position... that I can use
> for practice...
> 
> Here is a start list (others are welcome) but I want to start with the
> first three on the list...
> 
> Dixie
> Amazing Grace
> On the Old Rugged Cross
> Silent Night
> I Saw the Light
> Swanee River
> America the Beautiful
> John Henry
> Tom Dooley
> Some Where Over the Rainbow
> etc...
> 
> Most of the tab sites I've found all show 1st position... so any links to
> 2nd position tabs would help me get started getting accustomed to playing
> tunes in either 1st or 2nd.
> 
> Thanks for any help.