Re: [Harp-L] 12th position - more on fiddle tunes

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Earlier I detailed reasons to study 12th position for trad/fiddle
tunes.

Later another one occurred to me.

let's say you ahve a G mixolydian tune. YOu're playing it in second
position on a C harp. The chords keep alternating between the tonic (G)
and the flat seventh (F). Studying 12th position (F on a CC harp) will
give you more fluidity over the F chord, whether you're improvising or
playing a set melody.

Winslow

--- Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/trad_irish_harmonica
> > HEAR my CD clips: http://www.gjk2.com/steveshaw/cd.htm
> > 
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