Notes Scales and Positions on the Diatonic Harmonica
In Western music we name notes after letters of the alphabet A through to G These are the white keys on the piano The keyboard also has black keys These go in between many of the notes The black notes are called sharps or flats The note in between A and B for example is called either A sharp (A#) or B flat (Bb) Similarly the notes between D a
What octave is a 10 hole diatonic harmonica?
This is the note layout for a 10 hole diatonic harmonica in the key of C. For beginners it's best to start with the notes in the middle octave of the harmonica - that's holes 4 to 7. We can plays lots of great melodies on these holes without the need for any advanced techniques. To start with, you can play the major scale.
What is the note layout of a diatonic harmonica?
Each harmonica is tuned to play one specific key, so most players end up with lots of harmonicas so they can play in lots of keys. The normal note layout of diatonic harmonicas is called Richter tuning. The most common key of harmonica is the key of C. Here's the note layout of a C diatonic harmonica: I've highlighted holes 4 to 7.
What scale does a harmonica use?
The Major Scale on Your Harmonica Here’s a diagram of your C harmonica. Hole numbers in the middle, blow notes on the top and draw notes on the bottom. If you examine the notes in the diagram you’ll find they’re all part of the C major scale (C D E F G A B C) and they all repeat at least once across the range of the harmonica.
Is a harmonica a chromatic instrument?
The harmonica is a diatonic instrument. That means that it doesn’t have all the notes of the chromatic scale available. Instead it just uses a subset of these notes. Specifically, it has the notes of what is known as the diatonic scale. The notes in a major diatonic scale follow a a specific pattern of whole and half steps as follows.
1. The Chromatic Scale
In Western music we name notes after letters of the alphabet A through to G. These are the white keys on the piano. The keyboard also has black keys. These go in between many of the notes. The black notes are called sharps or flats. The note in between A and B for example is called either A sharp (A#) or B flat (Bb). Similarly the notes between D a
B C
The sharps haven’t been noted for simplicity. Notice the scale goes alphabetically and loops back to A after G. The distance from one note in the sequence to it’s nearest neighbours is called a half-step, or semi-tone. Examples of half steps include. Db to D and E to F. A whole-step or whole-tone is the distance between two notes. Examples of whole
2. The Major Diatonic Scale
The harmonica is a diatonic instrument. That means that it doesn’t have all the notes of the chromatic scale available. Instead it just uses a subset of these notes. Specifically, it has the notes of what is known as the diatonic scale. The notes in a major diatonic scale follow a a specific pattern of whole and half steps as follows. Whole, Whole,
C D E F G A B C
Notice there are no sharps or flats in the C major scale.
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3. Scale Degrees
Lets take things one step further and number the notes of the C major scale. These are called scale degrees. major scale: C D E F G A B C
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3. The Major Scale on Your Harmonica
Here’s a diagram of your C harmonica. Hole numbers in the middle, blow notes on the top and draw notes on the bottom. If you examine the notes in the diagram you’ll find they’re all part of the C major scale (C D E F G A B C) and they all repeat at least once across the range of the harmonica. You can think of your harmonica as spanning three separ
4. Positions
Above we’ve seen the the C major scale on the C harmonica. We refer to this as first position. There are many other positions available (in fact there’s 12, one for each note in the chromatic scale) but the majority of the time blues and folk players will use the one of the first three. First position, Second Position, and Third Position. We’ve alr
D major scale degrees: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8/1
Two sharps this time F# and C#. If we again flat those sharps we get a playable new scale. This one has a flat third as well as a flat seventh. The fancy name for this one is Dorian mode and again it comes with it’s own distinctive sound. This scale is much closer to a minor scale than the major scale we started with so it has a darker or sadder qu
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