You are the goat Jonah, i liked the part on lvl 5 when u said “ its just basic playing that sounds beautiful” while i was like : @.@ jesus so many stuff going on at the same time hahah, thx 4 the vid bro
I've been playing 30 years and I never played scales (and don't care) and I don't even know what position I am playing in (and don't care). What I do daily, is listen to backing tracks over and over and over, and I imagine what the harmonica part might be by humming it to myself. Seems to always work for me. I imagine my need for overblows and bending both in and out. Then I play it. I don't spend much time searching for notes, I just seem to know where they are and it works.
Most all of my playing with the country/bluegrass and church songs are 1st position. Melodies. Jazz/blues/funk/etc. 2nd, 3rd, even 4th position. But for the most part, melodies are 1st position stuff. Would you agree?
At a very basic level, yes. The downside with doing melodic stuff in other positions is that you could potentially be missing notes. However, second position especially can really work great for melodic music, as long as you can successfully avoid those notes or replace them with overblows or a differently tuned note in the case of country tuning. I do most of my melodic playing and second position personally.
First position is playing on the harmonica where you are in the same key as the labeled key of the harmonica. Usually this involves using the major scale, but could potentially be a few other variations of that as well.
1st position is generally played in the same key as the song is played. I.E. the song is played in D major, first position would be with a D harmonica , An easy reference would be to pull up a "circle of fifths". First position is the key the song is played in.
JF, very informative... Lots to 'unpack' here today, will have to listen view again, and again ... Slick
You are the goat Jonah, i liked the part on lvl 5 when u said “ its just basic playing that sounds beautiful” while i was like : @.@ jesus so many stuff going on at the same time hahah, thx 4 the vid bro
Hi, Jonah. I am not a beginner but I watch all of your videos - there is always something interesting.
Thank you for all you do. Cheers!
Jonah. You are a wealth of useful information. Keep the pearls coming.
Nice. That little climb at 12'34" is especially good.
I've been playing 30 years and I never played scales (and don't care) and I don't even know what position I am playing in (and don't care). What I do daily, is listen to backing tracks over and over and over, and I imagine what the harmonica part might be by humming it to myself. Seems to always work for me. I imagine my need for overblows and bending both in and out. Then I play it. I don't spend much time searching for notes, I just seem to know where they are and it works.
Great segment, thank you!
Much Appreciated Jonah !!!😊
Most all of my playing with the country/bluegrass and church songs are 1st position. Melodies. Jazz/blues/funk/etc. 2nd, 3rd, even 4th position. But for the most part, melodies are 1st position stuff. Would you agree?
At a very basic level, yes. The downside with doing melodic stuff in other positions is that you could potentially be missing notes. However, second position especially can really work great for melodic music, as long as you can successfully avoid those notes or replace them with overblows or a differently tuned note in the case of country tuning. I do most of my melodic playing and second position personally.
@@HarmonicaRevolution I have a hard time playing 2nd position to melodies. Others I have spoken to go 2nd position most always. I can't pull it off.
Very nice
Please define first position
First position is playing on the harmonica where you are in the same key as the labeled key of the harmonica. Usually this involves using the major scale, but could potentially be a few other variations of that as well.
1st position is generally played in the same key as the song is played. I.E. the song is played in D major, first position would be with a D harmonica , An easy reference would be to pull up a "circle of fifths". First position is the key the song is played in.