[Harp-L] Re: When Johnny Comes Marching Home

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why don't I just figure these things out first because I had not previously been transposing between G-minor and the Major scales; I had probably played "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from some old tabs instead of the real sheet-music and the tabs were not correctly transposed (which seems to be quite common).

According to the actual sheet-music:

[Corrected Version]

In G-Minor:

g  d  g  g  g  a  Bb  a  Bb,  g  f  f,  d  f  f.

In C-Major (Chromatically Transposed):

C  G  C  C  C  D  Eb[D#]  D  Eb[D#], C Bb[A#] Bb[A#], G Bb[A#] Bb[A#].

Yup, as Winslow has indicated, that is a rough transposition to C-Major.

/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025/ ")

On Monday, June 09, 2014 at 2:38 PM, "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Neil -Â
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>I'm aware of the difference between modal and literal 
>transposition.
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>So, when you play When Johnny Comes Marching Home in first 
>position, what notes (breaths, holes, bends) do you play?
>
>Winslow