Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Some good candidates for the "melodic Big Six" (discussed above) can be seen here:

http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/view ... =273#p1672

I am very excited about this: http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=267 Around the idea of Alan's modular platform , I have devised some chordal Big Sixes which, in combination with some kind of melodic (e.g. blues scale) Big Six, would constitute a highly adaptable system. The ...

Here are some of my own ideas on how to adapt "Wilde Rock" tuning, by Will Wilde , to a six-hole format. Below I show the original 10-hole version, and also three six-hole versions. All are based on the "song key" of G. http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=vi...

Here is different example of the type of tuning described in the post just above. In this version we gain an additional IV chord (preceded by its dominant seventh note) in the blow layer, and also an additional V chord (preceded by its dominant seventh note) in the draw layer. http://www.brendan-pow...

Throughout this thread, all of the I – IV – V tunings have shared this basic structure: IV chord(s) in the blow layer, and I chord(s) followed by V chords in the draw layer. But another arrangement also has merit: a V chord followed by IV chord(s) in the blow layer, and a I chord followed by another...

Regarding the tuning of Fri Oct 26, 2018 12:40 pm (just above) ....

Here is how low it can be, according to Seydel's Configurator. This example would play in the "song key" of Low C.

http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/down ... iew&id=400

In my post of Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:08 pm (above), I indicated that I was very pleased with Super-Circular/PowerChromatic for general major and minor diatonic play. I then set out to devise a more specialized bluesy version of that tuning. I see now that some of what I did to that end was incorrect . ...

In this post I compare the tuning from just above to a tuning that differs by only one channel.

WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/down ... iew&id=397

All evidence indicates that Super-Circular/PowerChromatic is a very capable tuning—harmonically and melodically—for myriad songs in both major keys and natural minor keys. But what about bluesy tunes, where the major I, IV and V chords are overlain by a minor hexatonic scale whose tonic is equal to ...

Here is the Super-Circular/PowerChromatic tuning in seven common keys.

http://www.brendan-power.com/forum/down ... iew&id=392