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

[Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Price <mikerockin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is done in just blues music mainly, right?

Flattening the 3rd is common in blues, but it's certainly not exclusive
to it. For example, take Garrett Barry's, a widely-played Irish jig in D
mixolydian -- D major with a flattened 7th, i.e. 2nd position on a G
diatonic instrument. Many arrangements of it play F natural instead of
some of the F sharps in the top octave.

You can see this in some of the versions here:
  http://thesession.org/tunes/544

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