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Major 7th Passing Note
Major 7th Passing Note
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MindTheGap
842 posts
Dec 08, 2015
10:52 PM
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Since starting with the chromatic I've been particularly enjoying having the major 7th scale degree available as a passing note (i.e. in the key of C, the B rather). For instance coming down from the tonic note C via C, B, Bb.
You hear it quite a lot to signal a chord change e.g. 2 2' 2''.
I liked it so much that I wanted to emulate it on the diatonic in the middle octave. Most people use 5OB I think to do that, but plenty of my own harps aren't set up to work for that so I tried using the 6B bend - like a single-reed blow bend. It's hard it seems to get a full semitone with a solid timbre, but it's not got to be a sustained note.
See what you think...it's at about 10 seconds.
Last Edited by MindTheGap on Dec 08, 2015 10:54 PM
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SuperBee
3050 posts
Dec 09, 2015
1:49 AM
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yes i got a sense of it...but i think you may get a more convincing result with half valving
my preferred solution is to raise the 5 draw a half step and then learn to bend it for the dom7, but i reckon you would take to half valving well since you can already do it unvalved
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MindTheGap
845 posts
Dec 09, 2015
6:13 AM
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It's tempting, especially when you want a particular missing note. It's a bit frustrating. But I've already made the decision (well, for the moment) that I want to work with the diatonic harp pretty much as-is. I'm resisting my natural urge to tinker and optimise - because I fear what might happen. To me, I mean.
If I really, really want a proper missing note, it's chromatic time. But I quite like these little things that suggest the note in passing - and there are plenty of examples where that is done in standard blues harp technique. E.g. substituting the 5D 1/4 step bend (or whatever it is, nearly a semitone but not quite?) for 5B.
Not very modern though is it. Ah well.
Last Edited by MindTheGap on Dec 09, 2015 6:52 AM
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