Re: [Harp-L] Do teachers & players tend to undervalue first position?

[Boris Plotnikov <ploboris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hate term "position". I prefer to term "key" for C harp layout (like
other transposing instrument). There is bunch of jazz, folk and rock
tunes which are great in C major, A minor, F major on C diatonic. My
repertoir consist of about 100 tunes and I think, I play aprox.
equally amount of them in 1, 2, 3, 4 positions (C maj, G maj, D minor,
A minor), plus a bit less tunes in G minor (2nd pos. minor) and F
major (12 pos.).

2011/3/27 Tony Eyers <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> For 25 years I focused on 2nd and 3rd position for blues and general
> accompanyment, my own Major Cross tuning for fiddle tunes. I never gave
> first position much thought.
>
> Then I wrote the Harmonica Academy teaching site. I had to learn first
> position. Now I love it. It is a powerful blues position (listen to the
> opening track on Dennis Gruneling's CD "Up All Night). Really great for
> fiddle tunes as well. The trick however is mastery of the 3 draw bend (an A
> note for a C harmonica). This note takes some years to control well enough
> for tunes, once done, first position opens many possibilities.
>
> Tony Eyers
> Australia
> www.HarmonicaAcademy.com
> ...everyone plays
>



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Thanks, Boris Plotnikov