hvyj
2567 posts
Oct 31, 2014
2:46 AM
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I'm interested in what strategies to use for playing harmonic minor without using a specially tuned harp. The harmonic minor scale has a minor third and a minor sixth but a MAJOR seventh. It has a distinctive sound.
I don't OB and I don't own any specially tuned harps. So, sometimes I've been using 4th position and bending draw 6 for the major 7th and sometimes I've been using 5th position and bending blow 8 for the major 7th. Any other suggestions?
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Diggsblues
1599 posts
Oct 31, 2014
4:51 AM
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Using the relative minor on a major harp can work.
That's A minor on a C harp you get the raised seventh on
hole six draw bend. In a tune like Black Orpheus when it
goes to E7 you could apply the A harmonic minor or a version of that scale with the g#.
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timeistight
1656 posts
Oct 31, 2014
6:34 AM
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You can get a harmonic minor scale in third position if you stay below the 7 hole: the minor third is at the whole step bend on 2 and the unbent 5; the minor sixth is at the half-step bend on 3; the major seventh is at the half-step bend on 1 and 4.
You can get all the notes of the harmonic minor in other positions, too (2nd, 11th, 12th even 1st come to mind) but you'd need to use octave displacement to string them into a scale.
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Michael Rubin
994 posts
Nov 01, 2014
8:31 PM
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12th position.
F G Ab Bb C Db E
1 1-*2
2-** 2- 3-*** 3-*4 4-* 5
5- 6 6-*
After that lots of overblows.
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indigo
9 posts
Nov 01, 2014
8:50 PM
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It is really nice to have you back hvyj...although you always did make my brain ache...in a good way
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timeistight
1659 posts
Nov 02, 2014
10:29 AM
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You're right, Michael; twelefth position is another good choice. And if you add the 6-hole overblow you can get a two-octave scale.
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