RE: [Harp-L] Inverted notes on major scale at hole 7

["Joe Phillips" <jphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point Iceman about how two players can work out a tune on two
harps, but the Richter tuning, which keeps those two critical chords
close at hand, also allows one player to easily work both melody and
chords into a solo piece.

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of The Iceman
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:54 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Inverted notes on major scale at hole 7

I believe that the chording may have been a factor. The harmonica was
built to be a "people's instrument" and to play the popular tunes of the
day. In Germany, these tunes were based on the I chord and the V chord.
Harmonica was structured to have the melody played by 1 person while the
second person supplies the chords, or for one person (w/tb) to play the
melody and the chords.





-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Rodrigo G. Reis <rodrigogreis@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 11:08 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Inverted notes on major scale at hole 7


This tuning is not the only one--but it is popular.
Solo tuning is the arrangement of tones from holes 4 to 7, and this is
the
tuning of the chromatic harmonica--that's why there are usually two C
notes
next to each other. I say usually because I change that--I retune what
would
have been hole 7 on a diatonic to | Bb b | so there is no breath shift.
This
is called bebop tuning.
I retune harmonicas routinely, but still retain the breath shift on some
tunings--guess I am just used to it by now.
However, there are tunings that do not have a shift--circular is one--if
you
start a C harmonica on blow G, it would alternate notes, so the next G
would
be a draw note on hole 4, and the G above that would be blow 8. The C
notes
would be on draw 2, blow 6 and draw 9.
I like the IV6/V6 tuning, which Brendan Power claims credit for. A C
harmonica would start on F--and the chords would be F6 and G6. No breath
shift.
I have a tuning that is circular on the bottom, and the breath shift
happens
at hole 8.
As Brendan himself told me, there are lots of possibillities.
G
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Rodrigo G. Reis
<rodrigogreis@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Just another day, a guitarrist friend of mine who just got him self a
> harmonica, asked me why on the major scale the sequence of blow-draw
is
> inverted to draw-blow at hole 7 and it goes inverted until the end
(hole
> 10). I didn't have any musical based answer to it.
>
> Do you guys have something on it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rodrigo G. Reis
>

 


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