Re: [Harp-L] If the chords are F#m, E, and D...which harp?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

B harp in 11th might work, too. 

I suspect (again, working entirely from dim memory) that you're dealing with a six-note scale of A-B-C#-D-E-F#. Almost a pentatonic, except for that D on the words "under my" and maybe one or two other places.

So, yeah, D in second, or B in 11th (with appropriate bends) could work.

Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Mike Fugazzi <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mike Fugazzi <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] If the chords are F#m, E, and D...which harp?
> To: winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 1:30 PM
> I thought of an A harp, but I don't have a harp
> handy....for some reason a position wasn't
> clicking...I'll have to experiment.  I was thinking
> maybe even of a B harp in 11th?  
> 
> I think a pentatonic would work, but maybe the Natural
> Minor scale?  I always get confused about which scales (not
> positions) to try.  I always start thinking pentatonic, but
> then want to know how far I can branch out from there.  I
> need a chart or something...in fact, I think I have a book
> that lists scale choices for different chords.
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Mike Fugazzi
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> --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Winslow Yerxa
> <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] If the chords are F#m, E, and
> D...which harp?
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx, "Mike Fugazzi"
> <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 3:21 PM
> 
> The notes of the chords add up to an A major scale.
> However, thinking of that
> melody (after, what 40 years?) something tells me that it
> would work in second
> position (sorry, Buddha) on a D harp, as I don't think
> G# occurs anywhere in
> the melody.
> 
> Try both, see wich sounds cooler and more comfortable.
> 
> Winslow
> 
> Winslow Yerxa
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Mike Fugazzi
> <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mike Fugazzi <mfugazzi67@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Harp-L] If the chords are F#m, E, and
> D...which harp?
> > To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 1:12 PM
> > I am open to suggestions here in regards to positions
> to
> > play.  The song is "Under My Thumb" by the
> > Rolling stones.
> > 
> > Mike Fugazzi
> > 
> > vocals/harmonica
> > 
> > "The Mike Fugazzi Band"
> > 
> > http://www.myspace.com/mikefugazzi
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/user/mikefugazzi
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Music should be healing; music should uplift the
> > soul; music should inspire. There is no better way of
> > getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the
> spirit,
> > of attaining spiritual perfection than music, if only
> it is
> > rightly understood."
> > 
> > -Hazrat Inayat Khan
> > 
> > 
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