Re: [Harp-L] Fw: Shtreiml & Ismail Fencioglu Live (Harmonica and Oud Wizardry)

[Jason Rosenblatt <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

I guess you're right...I always thought of positions purely as modal and in direct relation to the key of the Harmonica...so if you're playing in third you're playing Dorian and fourth aeolian, 5th Phrygian etc. I didn't think there was a position for say playing in f# minor on a c harp...but I guess if you keep counting around the cycle of fifths you'd get to it. (7th position minor) 

We'll thank you for commenting...I hope people enjoy the new CD as well...it's called Eastern Hora...there's plenty of harmonica to be sure, but I'm proud that it's all original "traditional" music. 

J. 

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> On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Jason,
> Although you are not naming this concept positions, you are using the positions concept.  You are playing in multiple keys on any harmonica and relating your thought process to what that key and notes would be on a C harp.  To me, this IS position thinking.
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> Whatever you call it, you're playing great music!
> Michael Rubin
> michaelrubinharmonica.com
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>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jason Rosenblatt <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Thanks for the interest in the videos and thanks to Richard Hunter for forwarding the links to harp-l. I'm playing standard tuned harmonicas: mostly customized by Joe Spiers. The B harmonica I use on the song Ciftetelli (the third song in the playlist) was customized by Antoine Hamel. As far as "positions" go, I don't really think in terms of positions, but rather notes. However I'm always visualizing the notes in relation to a C harp. For instance in the solo on Ciftetelli, which I play on B harp,while my solo modulates from D# to C# to B, I'm thinking in E, D and C.
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>> Thanks,
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>> J.
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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