Re: [Harp-L] ST. James Infimary-third postion C harp
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- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:28:10 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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THOMAS FIACCO wrote:
<One of the best harp versions I have seen out there-third position C harp-
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqT3-8Wl-Y
That is a very strong performance, thanks for posting.
FYI, St James Infirmary lays out beautifully on a natural minor tuning in 2nd position, with lots of chords readily available. Not that I would ever recommend to anyone that they buy a natural minor harp...
Regards, Richard Hunter
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> 1. Subject: [Harp-L] From Robert Bonfiglio (Angelo Adamo)
> 2. St James (Steve Baker)
> 3. Re: the new mike turk cd BLUESIN' AROUND (Bob Cohen)
> 4. Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (dcarter@xxxxxxxxx)
> 5. Re: positions (Winslow Yerxa)
> 6. Re: Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (Mike)
> 7. RE: Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (Donnie MorTone)
> 8. Re: Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (Rick Dempster)
> 9. Re: Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (dcarter@xxxxxxxxx)
> 10. Re: Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ? (hazcon)
> 11. Re: music (Garry)
> 12. ST. James Infimary-third postion C harp (THOMAS FIACCO)
> 13. Re: Positions a misnomer and harp Jargon
> (David Priestley ( for harp-L))
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:57:43 +0200
>From: Angelo Adamo <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Subject: [Harp-L] From Robert Bonfiglio
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
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>Hi, great Rob, compaesano!
>I'd like to let you listen also to my works on Bach's cello suites
>that Ive done!
>I'm only waiting to understand with whom to publish them.
>Beside this, I'm very happy to say that DODICILUNE RECORDS has
>published a new CD, the Alborada String Quartet's one titled "ETHOS",
>in witch I'm a guest playing the Andante of the Villa-Lobos concert
>for Harmonica.
>Being it a CD among two genres, classical and jazz music, I decided to
>improvize on the structure in the last part of the piece.
>Maybe some of you could find this work interesting.
>If you want to know more about it, give a glance at the address:
>
>
>http://www.jazzos.com/products0.php?artist=502134&module=artists&cat=TOP&search_type=artist&search_string=adamo
>
>Beside this, I've finished an other CD in witch I play the entire
>concert of Villa Lobos with a great Orchestra (60 elements), plus
>other works written for harmonica and orchestra (V.Williams' Romance,
>Gordon Jacob's Five piece in form of suite, James Moody's Impromptu,
>Villa Lobos'Bachianas Brasilieras, D. Milhaud's Sailor Song) that I've
>recorded with the piano accompainment.
>I hope to be able to say soon to this community that this cd is
>finally out...
>
>Angelo Adamo
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:10:43 +0200
>From: Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Harp-L] St James
>To: airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx, Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <2DE4016B-FF7F-443E-8330-78BD5063BFF7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Ken wrote:
>
><My favorite version of "St James Infirmary" is Steve Baker and Chris
>Jones's version on their CD "Slow Roll"... I don't recall right off
>what "position" Steve plays, but its the best version of this song
>that I have heard, or in my music collection.>
>
>Thanks Ken, glad you like our version!
>
>On the CD you mention I played it on a tuning invented by Dale King
>where 2 & 3 draw are tuned a whole tone lower so you have a Dm draw
>chord and a C blow chord on a harp in C. It's kind of 3rd position
>but with better chording options. Of course St. James lays out very
>well in 5th but I like my chords ;-)
>
>Steve Baker
>www.stevebaker.de
>www.bluesculture.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:39:23 -0400
>From: Bob Cohen <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] the new mike turk cd BLUESIN' AROUND
>To: Randy Singer <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mike turk harmonica
> <miketurk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
>On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Randy Singer wrote:
>
>> I LOVE THE NEW MIKE TURK CD......
>>
>> find it on cd baby!!!!!
>
>Apropos of Randy's post, check out Mike on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/miketurk09 and Facebook. Look for the Tin Sandwich Productions page. Lot's of cool stuff.
>
>Bob
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:59:21 -0500
>From: dcarter@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <20110330005921.921AAB1180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy Williamson on youtube. My question is, was there a band in the 60's that used this same exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's been bugging me for several days, but I'd swear I have heard it before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help you can give! Duane
>
>
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:06:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] positions
>To: jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
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>Position has nothing to do with where you are on the harmonica physically. This
>is different from violin and guitar, where the higher you go up the neck, the
>higher your position regardless of what key you're in.
>
>On harmonica, only one thing determines the position: The relationship between
>the key of the harmonica and the key of the tune you're playing on it.
>
>Winslow Yerxa
>Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
>Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
>Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
>Columnist, harmonicasessions.com
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: "jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx" <jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 7:26:47 AM
>Subject: [Harp-L] positions
>
>I don't fully understand positions. If I play Turn on your Love Light
>or Jessica in second position, I'm basically playing in the same area
>and the same holes as I would if I were playing in the relative minor
>in 5th so I haven't changed my position--I'm in the same spot-- just
>the key. And even though it's called second position, whether I play
>blues or if I play Turn on Your Lovelight, I'm not in the same
>spot--I'm playing different holes. When I play harp I think in terms
>of the blues scale, the Allman Brothers scale, the Dylan scale, the Jr
>Wells scale, and the Little Wing scale.
>
>--
>Rainbow Jimmy
> ÃÂÂWhat is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they
>recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the
>too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to
>the next crazy venture beneath the skies--Kerouac
>
>http://www.myspace.com/theelectricstarlightspaceanimals
>http://www.facebook.com/spaceanimals
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>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:08:27 -0500
>From: "Mike" <otisharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>, "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <132E7BC8BC6545E7BE35CF97F6F0BD60@YOURRVLNHR6V8D>
>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
>maybe Booker T.?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:59 PM
>Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>
>
>> Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy Williamson on
>> youtube. My question is, was there a band in the 60's that used this same
>> exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's been bugging me for several days,
>> but I'd swear I have heard it before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>> I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help you can
>> give! Duane
>>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 7
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:18:48 -1000
>From: Donnie MorTone <harp_boy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: <otisharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <COL118-W50051FB275B5BD1C351978EFBC0@xxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
>Booker T would be correctamundo...
>
>Green Onions
>
>http://www.myspace.com/donniemortone
>
>http://www.youtube.com/user/BluesGeek
>
>The William Clarke Tribute Site:
>http://www.angelfire.com/blues/williamclarke/index.html
>
>
>
>
>> From: otisharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: dcarter@xxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:08:27 -0500
>> CC:
>>
>> maybe Booker T.?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:59 PM
>> Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>>
>>
>> > Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy Williamson on
>> > youtube. My question is, was there a band in the 60's that used this same
>> > exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's been bugging me for several days,
>> > but I'd swear I have heard it before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>> > I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help you can
>> > give! Duane
>> >
>>
>
>
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>Message: 8
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:29:43 +1100
>From: "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>, <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>, "Mike"
> <otisharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <4D932236.7C8A.0066.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
>Yes; 'Green Onions'.
>RD
>
>>>> "Mike" <otisharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 30/03/2011 12:08 >>>
>maybe Booker T.?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:59 PM
>Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>
>
>> Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy Williamson on
>> youtube. My question is, was there a band in the 60's that used this same
>> exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's been bugging me for several days,
>> but I'd swear I have heard it before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>> I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help you can
>> give! Duane
>>
>
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:40:00 -0500
>From: dcarter@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: "Jim Rumbaugh" <jrumbaug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Message-ID: <20110330014000.16570B1180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> That's the song it was reminding me of, thank you all for your speedy help. I probably wouldn't have got any sleep tonight not knowing (LOL)!!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Rumbaugh" <jrumbaug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: dcarter@xxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:32:34 -0400
>>
>>
>> look up th song Green Onions
>>
>> Jim Rumbaugh
>>
>> we just started doing that tune 3 weeks ago at The Harmonica Club
>> in Huntington, WV
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:59 PM
>> Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>>
>>
>> > Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy
>> > Williamson on youtube. My question is, was there a band in the
>> > 60's that used this same exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's
>> > been bugging me for several days, but I'd swear I have heard it
>> > before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>> > I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help
>> > you can give! Duane
>> >
>
>>
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 10
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:46:23 +1300
>From: "hazcon" <hazcon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>To: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>, "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <E3F8908A782644889D3E825BB90205E0@rickPC>
>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
>"Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs'
>Rick
>in NZ
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <dcarter@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 13:59
>Subject: [Harp-L] Sonny Boy Williamson (Help Me) ?
>
>
>> Hi all, I've been listening to "Help Me" by by Sonny Boy Williamson on
>> youtube. My question is, was there a band in the 60's that used this same
>> exact rhythm in an instrumental? It's been bugging me for several days,
>> but I'd swear I have heard it before. One of those deja vu kind of things.
>> I'm even thinking it was a California band. Thanks for any help you can
>> give! Duane
>>
>
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 11
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:03:18 -0400
>From: Garry <harp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] music
>To: jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx
>Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Message-ID: <4D92AB86.8050703@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>
>On 03/29/2011 10:34 AM, jim.alciere@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I've been working, with limited success,on playing Jessica by the
>> Allman Brothers on the harmonica. It's okay, because I'm having fun
>> with it. Also, since it's in A, there are a lot of high notes which
>> sound thin, so I've been having fun trying to hit them as octaves
>> instead of single notes.
>>
>> So last weekend I was playing with a friend and we got into a long jam
>> in A and suddenly I was playing differently. The music just poured out
>> and we got into a groove that went on forever.
>>
>> So even if you practice on something that doesn't have a direct
>> correlation with what you're playing, it can help improve your
>> playing.
>absolutely. a while back i spent a lot of time working on "Blue Sky",
>also by the Brothers. it does amazing things for your dexterity and
>fluidity, which applies pretty much everywhere. check out "Slipknot"
>by the Dead sometime. same idea.
>
>
>--
>We make a living from what we get,
>but we make a life from what we give.
>- Kathy Moser
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 12
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:32:07 -0400
>From: THOMAS FIACCO <mx714@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Harp-L] ST. James Infimary-third postion C harp
>To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <COL121-W38A7DAD039D449424A1CC2E8BD0@xxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
>One of the best harp versions I have seen out there-third position C harp-
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqT3-8Wl-Y
>
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>Message: 13
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:06:23 +0100
>From: "David Priestley ( for harp-L)" <dmharpman@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Positions a misnomer and harp Jargon
>To: marcus@xxxxxxxx
>Cc: harp-l harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <4D931CBF.1040708@xxxxxxxxx>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
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> I'm so glad that my missive was useful. Even if it has served to help
>only you, it has been well worth the time it took me to do it. So thank
>you for your encouraging response. - David
>
>On 30/03/2011 12:48, marcus@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Thank you! I'm just starting out on the harp, with enough theory background to have been confused by the "position" terminology. It makes enough sense now so that my little engineer's mind doesn't have to reject it outright.
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Michelsen Tuition<dmharpman@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sender: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:18:27
>> To: John F. Potts<hvyj@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: harp-l harp-l<harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [Harp-L] Positions a misnomer and harp Jargon
>>
>> The term 'position' is a misnomer. In traditional 'muso' speak the
>> term position generally is given to indicate where one is on a
>> fingerboard or fretboard. It is more accurate to give the key of the
>> music and the key and tuning of the harmonica which one uses to play it on.
>>
>> That said it is a bit of terminology that we are saddled with and all of
>> the above all of the time can be a bit of a mouthful. Though I see
>> nothing wrong with using the degrees of the chromatic scale as a
>> description. It allows you to describe what's happening with out being
>> bogged down in the minutia of a given key. As a composer I'll often
>> think about the intervals needed in a melody line and then look at the
>> color tone of a key and that key's structures of harmonization as a
>> secondary consideration. This may be because I'm a harp player I think
>> melody first, if I thought piano instead of harp my thought might be
>> more centered on inherent harmonization and on keys before intervals.
>>
>> Where the term breaks down is that a circle of fifths, when going
>> clockwise, would most usefully and traditionally, give major keys only
>> but with a second layer showing each major keys relative minor. In this
>> way you have two circles of fifths, one inside the other. With the major
>> keys on the outer one and their relative minor keys on the inner one.
>>
>> This is only really useful if you use a diatonic with the technique
>> required to play it chromatically. As most folk either don't have, or
>> choose to use, this level of technique. We tend to use the positions to
>> describe an approach to using a set of altered modes. Which is to say on
>> a C harp the third position tends to become D Minor or an 'altered D
>> Blues*' because it's built on playing the C scale from D to D. To this
>> we tend to impose a D blues scale, giving us an A flat, to give us the
>> flat fifth required for a D blues scale. To this the second and sixth
>> degrees of the scale, an E and a B, though for D minor it would more
>> properly be a B flat. However if you listen to a lot of players who use
>> third position, or D minor / D Blues on a C Richter tuned harp, you will
>> often hear the B natural voiced in passing in the second octave.
>>
>> No matter how much, the fact of, this rouge B natural may be 'wrong'
>> according to music theory, it has none the less become a part of the
>> color tonality of 'third position'. As a community, I like to think
>> that, we generally know that when we speak of positions we are talking
>> about the key or root note to each position. This key note is the prime
>> tone to a number of intervalic systems that we can apply.
>>
>> So in this way when using a C harp when we say "we played in third
>> position", we could be playing from a scale base of: D Major, D Minor, D
>> Major pentatonic, D Minor pentatonic, D Blues etc. So each position is a
>> lose description for a raft of interval systems that project from the
>> root note of the position. The theoretical view of this can become a bit
>> 'cloudy' if you try and pin each position down to only one interval
>> system for each position. As in theory it would be better if the
>> interval system used was the same for each position, as in all majors or
>> all minors but we don't work in a theoretical world and the 'position'
>> system is our tradition for trying to describe what it is that we tend
>> to do. Whilst it is an imperfect and flawed system it is somewhat more
>> useful than no system at all. It describes what we try to do in our
>> imperfect and flawed way in our imperfect and flawed world. It is a set
>> of lose generalities. If we recognize its short-comings and understand
>> its imperfections, we can still take what is useful from it.
>>
>> All that said my students do tend to use real music, all-be-it with tab,
>> and the notes to a tune is the notes. A rose by any other name etc. Just
>> lets not be too hasty to reject a system which does have many useful
>> aspects in addition to its many imperfections. As if we do that we
>> reject something that is a usable model in favor of no model at all. By
>> so doing we run the risk of causing new and interesting types of
>> confusion, that not all of us would appreciate.
>>
>> I think this longstanding area of debate will run for a while for a
>> while yet.
>> David
>>
>> On 29/03/2011 08:45, John F. Potts wrote:
>>> "I hate term "position". I prefer to term "key"..."
>>>
>>> Anyway, he has forbidden me to speak in terms of "positions" when
>>> discussing which harmonica i should use for a particular tune. He
>>> considers it important that i use proper music terminology instead of
>>> harmonica shorthand. He also expects me to speak in terms of note
>>> names rather than degrees of the scale, but he's not as strict about
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Btw, Boris, don't you ever use 5th position (E minor on a C harp)?
>>>
>>> JP
>>>
>
>--
>D Priestley AKA Dr Midnight.
>England's first harmonica Guru.
>
>Do feel free get in touch.
>Harmonica lessons POA,(10 = 20% discount,& 20 = 25% discount).
>
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