RE: [Harp-L] Minor Key Harmonicas

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the accompanying chords are minor, then I use either 3rd or 5th. For tunes where the four chord is major, I  use 3rd, and where it's minor, I use 5th.
If you use second, you don't have a flat third in the middle octave without overblowing.
RD

>>> "Clayton Gary Lehmann" <hqr@xxxxxxx> 26/06/2009 14:38 >>>
There are a few good minor positions--
3rd position is pretty popular, that starts on draw 1 and is Dorian--
So a C harp yields Dm.
Am on the same harp starts on draw 6, or maybe double bent draw 3 if you can
do it well--that's 4th position.
I would think Em would be popular, that's 5th position--starts on blow 2,
draw bend for F# the second degree (it's Phrygian, so has an F natural in
the second octave), and most of the pentatonic notes are available.
Don't most players just bend the thirds down in cross harp and make them
minor, a la Long Train Runnin'?
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Eric Schaller
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:22 PM
To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [Harp-L] Minor Key Harmonicas

I have been playing at a jam and one of the guitarists loves to play in
minor keys, Harps of which I have none. My circle of fifths has minor keys
above ? I think, C=Am, G=Em, D=Bm, A=F#m, E=Dbm, B=Abm, F# =Ebm, Db= Bbm,
Ab=Fm, Eb= Cm, Bb=Gm, F=Dm, is this accurate? I have used it some times and
it will sound right, and other times it doesn't,
 Is there a circle if fifths, for minor keys with major harps or should I
sit out, looked In "Harmonica for Dummies" could not find information, Is
there some were else to look?
Thanks in Advance Eric S

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