[Harp-L] re: third position

["Jim Alciere" <jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve wrote:
 "It's a mixed bag of everything from
Johnny Cash to James Taylor to Carrie Underwood, even trying to fit some
harp
into an acoustic version of Freebird."

You probably know this already, but a lot of the old soul, country western,
and a lot of the southern rock is in a major pentatonic scale or a
mixolodyian scale. 2nd position (mixolodyian means a major scale with the
blues 7th)
this is the scale:
1D 2B 2D (sometimes a song also needs 2 Dbb) 3D 4D 5B 6B 6D 7D 8D 8B 9B and
10D

I call this the John Popper scale. I use it more than the I do a blues
scale.

You can use these same notes for the relative minor--you have a C harp, in
2nd it's in G, but you can use the same notes for songs in E minor. It works
well for songs like Little Wing--not that I can really play Little Wing,
just fake it.

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