Melodically and harmonically versatile slide (or slide-diatonic) tuning
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:02 pm
In another discussion here viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612&start=10#p2821 I devised a chordal prefix for Inverted Bebop tuning. It has since occurred to me that this three-hole "prefix" could be repeated indefinitely to make its own tuning. This could be in either a half-valved "chromatic" (but not literally) slide harp, or in a Brendan Power Slide Diatonic harp.
One layer--probably the slide-out layer--would be identical to a Repeating Paddy, a.k.a. EDharmonica. With careful control of the draw-bending G to either F# or F, this layer of the tuning can be played melodically in many key/mode combinations (which I will not list here).
The other layer--primarily harmonic--provides complementary and highly useful chords across the harp. In first position (C) we have I, IV, V and vi chords. In second position (G) we have I, ii, IV and V chords.
NOTE: In the diagram below, the slide-in and slide-out labels are incorrectly switched.
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One layer--probably the slide-out layer--would be identical to a Repeating Paddy, a.k.a. EDharmonica. With careful control of the draw-bending G to either F# or F, this layer of the tuning can be played melodically in many key/mode combinations (which I will not list here).
The other layer--primarily harmonic--provides complementary and highly useful chords across the harp. In first position (C) we have I, IV, V and vi chords. In second position (G) we have I, ii, IV and V chords.
NOTE: In the diagram below, the slide-in and slide-out labels are incorrectly switched.
download/file.php?mode=view&id=651