RE: [Harp-L] Help please

["Gary Lehmann" <hqr@xxxxxxx>]

I think this is second position--I know the song, and this seems to be the
beginning of the chorus.  Let's take it from the verse, "I don't want your
lonely mansion."
That would be 4 draw to 3 draw, then a couple of whole step bends on hole
three, back to hole 4, followed by the next line, "With a tear in every
room."
That line requires an overblow on the word "a", as the tune is in a major
key and second position is dominant, or the major scale with a lowered
seventh degree (oh heck, it's that blues mode you get from inhaling
harmonica).
In first position, you would play the line you wrote in tab starting on blow
7, then going to draw 6, then blow 6, then 7 blow again.
So that's C, and the other key that I think you were asking about is G.
Straight harp makes more sense on this tune tho, as it is very major
scale--like the phrase "With a tear in every room", draw 6, draw 7, blow 7,
draw 6 etc.
Keep playin',
Gary


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Help please

EdnDoris1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
"Okay, Folks...    I'm still trying to understand positions, etc. with 
the harp.  I've just tabbed out "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," 
like this:
  6    -5    5          -4    5     -4       5    6
Sil  ver threads  and  gol    den  nee dles....
Now, my question is, using a C - harp  what key am I playing in ?"

Ed,
Playing out the melody, I finally get to the root note at the end, and 
it turns out to be a 4 blow (er..exhale).   Thus you are in 1st 
position.  4 blow = C on a C harp, i.e. you are in the key of C.  There 
may be a different way of doing it, but it is clear to my ear that this 
ends on the root (as do most songs).
Fred S

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