RE: [Harp-L] Walk of Life - Help Please

[Christelle Berthon <christellester@xxxxxxxxx>]

quote " Am I totally off key? Any help would be appreciated."

Hi Denny

As a Dire Straits fan I've had to help you here :-)

No No, you're absolutely not out of Key. This shuffle is in E and is  
completely playable on a A harmonica (2nd position)

BUT this a Major type of song (like some country music songs and  
classical ones) and the particularity of the type of major scales is  
the "Leading Note". In classic major scales you always find the  
Leading note ONE SEMI TONE lower than the name of the scale (for  
example scale of G--->F#, or even simpler the C scale, one semi tone  
between the B and the C), and of course the Major Third (ex: C Maj : C- 
E, C min : C-Eb). All that to say that you'll need the D# on the  
second octave of the harmonica, and in order to do that, you have 2  
solutions: 1) Having a modified harmonica (country tuning) of learning  
to play the 5th overblow.

Still if you have none of them for this song you can double the  
rhythmic guitar playing the shuffle of this song on the 1st octave  
(the first 4 holes)...And it sounds good.

I hope it has helped you


Christelle Berthon


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