Re: Re: [Harp-L] diatonic tablature for the chromatic scale

["john" <jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx>]

======= At 2008-06-04, 15:34:10 you wrote: =======

>To use any std-to-tab conversion system, the user must know some things 
>about reading music to correctly interpret std notation.  I refer to the 
>rules for how sharp, flat, and natural signs in the key signature and in the 
>same measure apply. 

That is certainly not too much to ask or expect.

>Music-notation software makes it easy to transpose a song in any key to any 
>other key.  

What software do you recommend?  For instance, you arrive at a recording session, harps in hand, and are handed sheet music.  You think of perhaps three different diatonics (positions), which, for different reasons, strike you as having advantages.  You pull out your laptop and portable scanner, scan in the music, transpose it onscreen, try the three options, and decide on one.  You print the music on your portable printer, set it on the music stand and play.  What software will allow that to happen in a seamless way?

>The diatonic player can choose among 11 keys of harmonicas.  I 
>propose that a person learn to read only on a C diatonic.  Then he can 
>choose a combination of keys for the sheet music and the diatonic harp that 
>would use only a single pattern of . hole-blow/draw/bend.  Thus learning to 
>read for the diatonic would be about as easy as learning to read on a C 
>chromatic.  The advantage is that he can learn only one hole-blow/draw-bend 
>pattern and use it on a harp of any key.  It also handles playing in 
>positions.
>
>In this way the diatonic player can avail himself of all the advantages of 
>std notation such as timing and the analogy of altitude on the staff to 
>pitch ....without having to learn separate hole-b/d/bend for each key of 
>harp.
>
>Example:  I have a piece in D that goes down to A3, below the range of my 
>12-hole C chromatic.  I transposed it to G on paper, play it on a G 
>chromatic (while thinking C chromatic) and the concert key is D.  Thus I did 
>not have to learn a different pattern of hole-blow/draw-slide actions for 
>the G harp.   Another way of saying this is that by transposing sheet music, 
>I can think C-harp while playing a G-harp.
>
>This isn't rocket science. Arrangers do this kind of thing routinely for 
>players of transposing wind instruments. The difference is that they don't 
>have access to as many keys of transposing instruments as does the harmonica 
>player.
>
>Vern
>Visit my harmonica website www.Hands-Free-Chromatic.7p.com
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <Philharpn@xxxxxxx>
>To: <mmolino54@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:05 AM
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] diatonic tablature for the chromatic scale
>
>
>> Remarkably well done job. Not only do they do the job, they look nice too.
>>
>> Now nobody has any excuse for being unable to convert musical notation 
>> into
>> harmonica tablature. Diatonic or chromatic -- of chromatic diatonic.
>>
>> Takes all the busywork out of the task.
>>
>> Phil Lloyd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/4/08 11:18:43 AM, mmolino54@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> When I first picked up the diatonic 2 years ago, I was trying to learn 
>>> the
>>> layout and relearn how to read music, so I created some visuals/guides I
>>> thought might help me. I don't know if these are helpful to anyone else, 
>>> but they
>>> don't do any good if no one sees them so here they are:
>>>
>>> Musical Notation and Diatonic Harmonica Tab for Natural Notes
>>> http://www.harptabs.com/displayfile.php?ID=21
>>>
>>> Chromatic Music Scale Diatonic Harmonica Tab (Key of
>>> C)http://www.harptabs.com/displayfile.php?ID=22
>>>
>>> Diatonic Harmonica Tab 
>>> Rulershttp://www.harptabs.com/displayfile.php?ID=31
>>>
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Best regards.				 
john
jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx
2008-06-05