Harmonica For Dummies by Winslow Yerxa

Author:Winslow Yerxa
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118880791
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-10-16T12:01:31+00:00

If you were to always use a C-harmonica to play in all 12 keys, you wouldn’t need to talk about positions. You’d just play that C-harp in C, G, B, or whatever. Likewise, if you always used a key of harmonica that matched the key of the music, such as a G-harmonica to play in G or a B-harmonica to play in B, again there would be no point in talking about positions. The idea of positions is useful when you play more than one key of harp, and you play each harp in more than one key.

I hear you asking, “If there are 12 keys of harmonica, why play in positions at all? Just get 12 harmonicas and play each one in the key it’s designed for.” This approach sounds reasonable, but consider the following facts:

Harmonicas are tuned to major scales, and positions allow you to play music that uses other scales, including the minor scales. (See Chapter 4 for more on keys and scales.)

Every position has its own cool set of possibilities. (I take you through some of them in this chapter.) In each position, the harmonies, chords, and bendable notes on the harmonica sound different because they have a different reference point.

Second position sounds way cooler than first position, so it’s used far more often than first.

Many harmonica players tend to be cheap, so they want to get as much as they can out of a single instrument. (I’d like to say I’m kidding, but I’m not.)

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