Re: [Harp-L] 12th position

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, everybody who plays fiddle tunes/trad music should study 12th
position.
 
Partly because some tunes lie well in 12th and allow key changes to
other tunes in other positions, as Steve notes.

But also because some first position tunes have significant chunks that
end up feeling like 12th (Jig of Slurs for instance) while some Dorian
tunes in 3rd will go to the relative major - 12th again.

The 12th-y bits of those tunes can feel awkward if you're not used to
the position, but can be very comfortable if you've sussed out 12th -
pentatonic scale, partial chords both closed and split, octaves,
apreggios, etc.

Winslow

--- Steve Shaw <moorcot@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> >Nice position, eh? Twelfth has a lot to offer but tends to be
> >overlooked in the blues world because its default notes are major
> >(although the blues "flat five" is built in). Works great for a lot
> of
> >major stuff, though.
> >Winslow
> 
> Some nice possibilities in Irish music too, all the better because it
> 
> enables very nifty "key"-changes in medleys without having to switch
> harps.  
> A few that work on a low D harp, which means that you're ostensibly
> playing 
> in the key of G (at least that's what you tell the guitar man), are
> Cronin's 
> Hornpipe, Gillan's Apples and The Turnip Jig (Paudy Scully's Slide). 
> You 
> can play Dirty Old Town in 12th too.
> 
> 
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