Re: [Harp-L] Finding the Position - "Summertime"

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

> On Oct 21, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Mike Snowden wrote:
>
> > I've been dabbling more with a natural minor harp, and I got the  
> > old classic
> > "Summertime" into my head  I tried this a while back on a standard  
> > Richter,
> > and I couldn't get it to work then, but this time I got the idea  
> > to try a
> > "Natural Minor".  So I picked up and played by ear....  Starting  
> > on 7 blow
> > seems to work really quite well.  If I could bend/overblow better,  
> > then
> > starting on 4-draw potentially feels bluesier, but some of the  
> > steps at the
> > end of the verse are much harder.  I have the sheet music hidden  
> > away on the
> > shelf, so it's there if I want to see what I've forgotten....
> >
> >
> > So the question goes, what do other people use? And if a Standard  
> > Richter,
> > what starting position works for you?
> >
> >                 Mike
> It's in Am, I use a Bb chromatic (in Cm). Play it every week in duo  
> with a soprano sax (a Bb instrument played in Cm). Peloquin would  
> know more about it.  p.s. you could also use a C chromo (IN Am) or  
> a G chromo IN Dm. Terminal key will still be Am.
> smokey