Re: [Harp-L] Help a learner

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> By the way, if you start at D and count up five steps (D-E-F-G-A) you
> arrive at A, which is second position. Count up five more steps
> (A-B-C-D-E) and you arrive at third position. Keep counting up five
> steps and you get all 12 positions.
>
> Third position, E on a D harmonica, has a home chord in Draw 4-5-6 and
> 8-9-10. The scale has a flat 7th and a flat 3rd, known as the Dorian
> mode. A lot of SCottish and Irish tunes use this scale, in various
> keys. The Sailor's wife, Johnny Wilmot's Fiddle, the Warlock, Sleep
> Soond in da morning, King George the IVth, Fingal's Cave, Andy
> Renwick's Ferret, I lost my love, There Came a Young Man, Drummond
> Castle, Eilean beag donn a' chuain, among many others.
>
> Winslow

There's a note about positions in trad. Irish here:  
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/trad_irish_harmonica/page6.html  as well 
as a list of 60 relatively common tunes each marked with the harp key I use 
and the position in which the tune is played on that harp.

Steve


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