Re: [Harp-L] Re: Smo Joe/Country/Major 7th tuning

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve - 

My apologies - I did of course read the Harp Handbook - a brilliant and essential part of any harmonica player's library, but it's awhile since I looked at it. I was thinking more of what is typically posted on harp-l about Country Tuning, which tends to focus on the available scale while ignoring the chords.

(What can I say? great minds think alike . . .)

Winslow Yerxa

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

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Smo Joe/Country/Major 7th tuning
To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:21 AM

Winslow wrote:

<One thing that nobody except me seems to mention regarding Country tuning when used in second position: it also gives you al three major chords in second position as full three-note (or more) chords:>

Hey Winslow, I published that information in The Harp Handbook in 1990. And all these years I'd thought that you'd read it! I also would like to point out that this tuning is brilliant for 5th position, that would be Am and Bm in the keys F & G which Paul mentioned, which most conveniently are the parallel minor keys to the major keys found in 2nd position, opening up a whole range of tunes to the curious player which would be tough on standard tuning

Steve Baker
www.stevebaker.de
www.bluesculture.com




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