Re: [Harp-L] What Position Am I Playing?

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear your pain... 
  I'm playing on an original song with the singer/guitarist in the band i'm in. He's playing in A major, as best i can tell.. I'm using a Dm harp (actually a Bushman labeled in Am). It works.  I don't know, who cares? It works.
Steve Webb in Minn. where it is supposed to reach 50 degrees tomorrow for the first time in five months.  


---- "M. Erickson" <erickm001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Song is in C , I'm playing a Dm Marine Band (Not labeled in cross-harp like
> Lee Oscar's). The song is "People Get Ready" and I'm playing the melody
> line. Am, C relative major, I've got Am cross harp, but really playing in C.
> I've got the relative minor thing going with the same notes as C, but how
> does that influence positions? I'm confused.
> 
> I do it on another song. The song I play in G, "Blue Moon". I play a Marine
> Band Minor in Am,  Em cross harp, with the the relative major, G. Again, I
> get confused on position. Another song I do is "16 Tons". I play it in Em
> and play it on an Am Marine Band. That's second position, I'm confident
> about that. On the other two songs I'm playing somewhere else, it seems.
> 
> I love minor keyed harps. Melodies just fall out of them. I like Melody
> Maker tuning for the same reason. Now, If I just knew what I was doing, I
> could probably make more use of these tunings.
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