Re: [Harp-L] Question for position guys

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hate to complicate things, but I see this as 11th position, minor. Why?
because E minor on an A harp does not 'layout' like 2nd position. You are
having to flatten the 3rd, for a start.
A G scale, the relative major of E, played on the A harp,  is more
naturally similar to E minor. I think a lot of this is academic; it's 'what
works for you'. This works better for my particular form of grey matter.
RD

On 24 September 2012 10:34, David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok. Now it makes sense.
>
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>  From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Harp L Harp L <
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> Count around the circle of fifths to get position numbers.
>
> For a D-chromatic- Count D=1, A=2, E=3, B=4, F#(Gb)=5, Db(C#)=6, Ab=7,
> Eb=8, Bb=9, F=10
>
> For E minor on an A-harp, A=1, E=2 (Major or minor makes no difference
> when counting positions: only the tonal center counts.)
>
> Winslow Yerxa
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> ________________________________
>  From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:06 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Question for position guys
>
> 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
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