Re: [Harp-L] Conceptualising notes (was RE: Some questions for chromatic play...

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Howard told me that he imagines everything related to a G harp, as that's the first key of harp he played intensively.

One advantage to thinking of note names in terms of a piano keyboard is that the notes are laid out logically, ascending in pitch from left to right in semitone order. The sharps and flats are black keys, the "natural" notes are white. You don't have to be a keyboard player at all to use this model to remember the order of the notes.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

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

--- On Thu, 4/16/09, IcemanLE@xxxxxxx <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: IcemanLE@xxxxxxx <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Conceptualising notes (was RE: Some questions for chromatic play...
To: dixdr@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6:41 AM

Is this true? I remember him talking about first learning breakthrough  
concepts on his Ab harmonica and using that as a reference point (mind you, 
this  was 10 years ago at least - at Augusta Heritage).
 
 
In a message dated 4/16/2009 5:06:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dixdr@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Howard  Levy says the same thing - he imagines the notes in his head as 
laid out on a  piano keyboard. To make it a bit more manageable he also 
imagines first that  whatever harp he's playing is a C harp. 

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