Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

NAME: “Scale and Skinny/Fat Chords” Blues Buddy tuning for Big Six BASIC CONCEPT: My "Buddy" tunings for Seydel's excellent little Big Six are becoming a series! This tuning features: 1. A partial or "skinny" I chord (actually a dyad) in the 1-2 draw . 2. A partial or "skinny" VII chord (actually a...

As a slight variation, the four blow could be and F# rather than an F.

NAME: "Big Six Blues Solo Buddy" or "Drei Blaue Tonleiteren" BASIC CONCEPT: In other topics I made use of Seydel's Big Six model to create various chord harmonicas such as the "Chord Buddy" and the "Easy Backup". This new tuning for Big Six takes the complementary approach of providing three minor ...

Gen 6 (below) combines all of the features of my other "high octane" tunings PLUS a low-Richter "octave" in a 12-hole format.

I've been working concurrently on 10-, 12- and 13-hole tunings for blues. It has been fascinating to me how progress in any one of these has led to continued progress in the other two. This morning I had a real breakthrough in my 10-hole tuning. Which leads me to this 13-hole Gen 5 .... 2017-11-05 (...

Regarding "Gen 4" (above) ....

Now imagine adding three additional channels of "Low Richter" a la the Steve Baker Special or Lucky 13, and this becomes a monster 13-hole tuning! See this diagrammed in a topic called "Extra High Octane" blues tuning for 13-hole harp.

Gen 4 takes yet another approach ---putting the V chord in the draw layer.

As far as 10-hole versions go, this (imo) is easily the best so far.

Please say hello to Gen 5:

Gen 3 (below) takes a very different approach.

Of these 10-hole versions, which would you choose? Why?