Re: [Harp-L] David Barrett's Harmonica Scales

["Dave Murray" <dlmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Steve Kaufman's DVD "Figuring Out the Fingerboard, A Flatpicker's Guide 
To Improvising", with a sly grin is says, "Are you going to say, Let's Jam 
and start playing scales?" He suggests fiddle tunes (at least 50 of them) to 
learn your CAGED scales. Not only do you use the notes of the scales in a 
musical context, you learn bluegrass licks in the process. More fun than 
scales, I'm working on that some with my C chrom in the same keys, C, G, D, 
A, and E.

Another alternative is provided by Bobby Joe Holman in his "Hal Leonard 
Complete Chromatic Harmonica Method" He has little tunes in every Western 
mode played with jam tracks in the keys of C, G, and D. They have names like 
"G Mixolydian Song""D Major Pentatonic Scale Song", C Minor Pentatonic Blues 
Scale Song", etc. Catchy little tunes that work you out in all the modes in 
three keys.

Anyway, for what it's worth, some ideas on having a bit more fun than 
playing scales to learn the notes in the scales.

Peace and music,
Dave