BLUEGRASS & COUNTRY MUSIC FOR HARMONICA. Phil Duncan. CD
DIATONIC
CROSS-HARP
CHROMATIC
Product Description:
Attention all harmonica enthusiast! Join in the fun of playing at a bluegrass festival with a bluegrass band. This book brings to you the often performed tunes by every bluegrass and country player of all instruments. Select a few of these tunes and play them on your harmonica and you will be an instant hit! The book contains diatonic, cross harp, and chromatic stylings on 48 country/ bluegrass favorites: Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down; Arkansas Traveler; Wildwood Flower; Old Joe Clark; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms; Crawdad Song; and many more. The stereo accompaniment CD has 18 of the songs recorded. All 18 songs are recorded on the beginning tracks with the harmonica, and again without the harmonica included. Shown in standard notation with lyrics, guitar chords & harmonica tab.
Format: Book/CD Set
Song Title: Composer/Source:
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
Arkansas Traveler
Banks Of The Ohio (Not On Cd)
Big Rock Candy Mountain (Not On Cd)
Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down
Careless Love
Cider Through A Straw (Not On Cd)
Cindy (Not On Cd)
Crawdad Song
Cripple Creek
East Virginia (Not On Cd)
Foggy Mountain Top
Goober Peas (Not On Cd)
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Hard, Ain't It Hard (Not On Cd)
I Am A Pilgrim (Not On Cd)
I Wish I Was Single Again (Not On Cd)
Jesse James (Not On Cd)
John Hardy (Not On Cd)
John Henry (Not On Cd)
Little Maggie (Not On Cd)
Lonesome Road Blues (Not On Cd)
Lonesome Valley (Not On Cd)
Long Journey Home
Lord, I'm Coming Home
Mama Don't 'Low (Not On Cd)
Midnight Special (Not On Cd)
My Home's Across The Smokey Mountains (Not On Cd)
New River Train
Nine Pound Hammer (Not On Cd)
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep (Not On Cd)
Old Joe Clark
Precious Memeories (Not On Cd)
Railroad Bill
Raise A Ruckus Tonight (Not On Cd)
Red River Valley
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Roll On Buddy
Sally Goodin' (Not On Cd)
Soldier's Joy (Not On Cd)
Sourwood Mountain (Not On Cd)
Sweet By And By (Not On Cd)
The Foggy, Foggy Dew (Not On Cd)
The Roving Gambler (Not On Cd)
This Train (Not On Cd)
Turkey In The Straw
Wabash Cannon Ball (Not On Cd)
Wildwood Flower
Worried Man Blues (Not On Cd)
DIATONIC HARMONICA
Each harmonica is designed in a certain "key". When using the harmonica in that
stated "key" it is called standard or straight harmonica, such as the C harmonica is
the key of C, the G harmonica is the key of G and the F harmonica is the key of F,
etc. This also means that the center or "home" tone is the fourth hole of the diatonic
harmonica. Each different key requires a different harmonica. You may be able to
use any key harmonica in this book if you observe the numbers and arrows written
below each musical line. Normally you would use the C harmonica for this book.
In playing straight harmonica, the method for blocking out unwanted tones is called
"tongue blocking". Your tongue should cover and block off two or three undesired
holes on the left of the harmonica mouth piece:
5 6 7 8 9 10
Tongue blocks 2 or 3 holes.
The hole on the right (4) sounds.
To be able to "chord" with melody, just release the tongue covered holes and a chord
(3 or more tones together) will be produced.
on off on off
G tone
DIATONIC 10 HOLE NOTE CHART
C chord
tongue off
Cd Eg Gb Cd Ef Ga bC dE fG aC
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION about the diatonic harmonica refer to:
Mel Bay's DELUXE HARMONICA METHOD by Phil Duncan.
CHROMATIC HARMONICA
The use of the slide button will give accurate half-step tones on the chromatic harmonica.
The 12 or 16 hole chromatic harmonica have been notated in this book. A change of
octaves becomes necessary for variety and ease of playing. (All octaves on the chromatic
harmonica are the same, except the tones are higher or lower in pitch. )
Circled number
means,
Slide in
Same tone but different octave on harmonica
Slide out
EXAMPLE: same notational level
FOR FURTHER INFORMATIONabout chromatic harmonica refer to:
Mel Bay's Complete CHROMATIC HARMONICAMETHODby
Phil Duncan.
CROSS-HARP
The method for cross-harp is to cross over to hole 2 of the diatonic 10 hole harmonica
and draw. This tone becomes (hole 2) the "key" center or "home" tone and changes the
"key" in which the harmonica plays. Therefore, C harp plays cross-harp (blues harp)
in the key of G. (G is the draw tone in hole -2) F harp plays cross-harp in the key of C.
(C is a draw tone in hole 2 of the F harp) If the music is in the key of C use the F harmonica.
The cross-harp technique allows for half step tones not normally played on the
diatonic harmonica. All draw tones should begin below the pitch: 5 then rise quickly
to pitch level.
To achieve the half steps or more, a blues technique called bending is used.
Notational information:
= half step
down
f= whole step down ~ = whole step and a half
Octave changes need to take place for ease of playing. The numbers will dictate the changes:
Same written pitch but
different sound pitch level.
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