one for the blues harp think tank

[robbie]

hiya guys / gals,

just doing a jj cale number called someday, which has been covered on the eric Clapton tribute to jj cd recently issued . it

follows this chord sequence structured .... D min G D min C G D min G A# C D min can one of you tell me

what blues harp I need to buy to fit the D min key

many thanks

[pete1951]

This depends on how good you are on Harp. I`m not very good, so would use one tuned to Dmin. I might also play some of it on a standard `G` harp. An expert player would (I think ) use a `C` in 3rd position. This would give you a good `C` and `G` chords needed in the song.
PT
PS: my Minor harps are ones I`ve tuned, I don`t know about `off-the-shelf` ones, maybe another member can fill in the gap?

[Stevie]

There's some good advice contained in the thread that followed on from this posting:

michaelmesser.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&post=46206

e&oe

[robbie]

thank you gents for your help, I will invest in a cheapo key of G harmonica and see how it sounds.once again many thanks

kind regards

[stevie]

Robbie a G harp played in 3rp position will work well, D min 3rd position root note or tonic starts on Draw hole 4 of the G harp, or one octave down which is Draw hole one where you will get the A# by bending the note in Draw hole 3 another option would be to by a minor harp, Lee Oscar do a full range,I guess they would be tuned so the scale starts on Blow hole one which would give you a more folky sound than blues.

[pete1951]

Dec 3, 2014 9:02:18 GMT stevie said:

Robbie a G harp played in 3rp position will work well, D min 3rd position root note or tonic starts on Draw hole 4 of the G harp,

Sorry, but I`m not sure this is correct, on my G harp, draw 3 is an A.

[robbie]

thanks guys for your help, as I mentioned I have just bought an " el cheapo " G harp which should arrive tomorrow. I will give it a blow with mouth or a hammer depending on what comes out..I presume that the draw hole is a suck ( inhale ) rather than a blow

again many thanks chaps

kind regards

[stevie]

Robbie Sorry, I should have said 3rd position on a C harp! Not 3rd position on a G harp, 3rd position on a G harp gives you A min, not D min.
but all is not lost, play your G harp in 2nd position, draw hole 2,gives you the root note D, for the flat 3rd bend hole 3 down a semi tone from F#
to F natural, bend it down another semitone to get E.
Get yourself a harp tuned to C to play 3rd position D min. try the D min scale on each harp reach has it's own flavor,see which you prefer.

[robbie]

well guys, got the G harp, got about 2 to 3 notes that are somewhere near....clearly there is lots of practice needed by me

thanks for your help

robbsie