Re: [Harp-L] Question for position guys

[Bob McGraw <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's 2nd position....doesn't matter whether it's major or minor,  
it's still 2nd position.
WVa Bob

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On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:06 PM, David Payne  
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.