Re: [Harp-L] Question for position guys

[Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just to clarify, I would consider Em on an A harp to be 2nd position. Yes,
Fm on an Eb harp would be 3rd position.

Eric

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:46 PM, John Kerkhoven
<solo_danswer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Fm on an Eb harp would be third position. Like Dm on a C harp.
>
> John
>
> > I've never been much on positions, although I can figure out 1st, 2nd,
> 4th and 5th easy enough. Like one a short while back at the Huntington
> Harmonica club, they called a song in F minor and I wound up playing a D
> chromatic with the button pushed in the entire time, so that would have
> been transforming the chromatic to an Eb chromatic and playing 5th position
> on it.
> > But to get that, I was thinking about chords, thinking that if I pushed
> the button it, I'd have an F minor chord, then I could play in F minor.
> Now, after I started playing it, I figured out that was 5th position I was
> doing.
> > So, I came across a recording of me back when I was still in school. The
> song was Em. I was playing an A harmonica.
> >
> > What position is that?
> >
> > David Payne
> > www.elkriverharmonicas.com
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