Re: [Harp-L] Bent note on Amazing Grace

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

I play Amazing Grace in second position using all 3 octaves on the harp. However, I have played it in first and Joe Filisko showed me how to play it in one of those other positions, where 5 draw is the tonic.   It's my "A" number and the one song I feel I can play well.
Steve Webb in Minn.

---- joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> In the word amazing........when it's drawn out.
> 
> On May 3, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Philharpn@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Where is the bent note(s) in Amazing Grace?
> >
> > The topic came up during a discussion at Buckeye.
> >
> > I've been playing Amazing Grace for years   on a C harp in the keys  
> > of C, G
> > and F (1st, 2nd 12th positions) and have always found it easy to teach
> > beginners. It works in the keys of G and F because pentatonic based  
> > hymn does
> > not use the 4th note of the scale (F# in key of G) and (Bb in key  
> > of F).
> >
> > I didn't remember where I originally found the tune (based on the  
> > hymn/form
> > New Britain) so I searched through my print archives and on the web --
> > finding noting different from what I already had. [A jazz guitar  
> > version has
> > some accidentals (sharps/flats) but that is to be expected with jazz.]
> >
> > Phil
> >
>