QUESTION: How to use Inverted Bebop in a double-diatonic system?
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:57 pm
At https://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas-irish.php Brendan Power says: "The Slide Diatonic is another of my harmonica inventions. I first recorded with it on my 1994 album New Irish Harmonica, and I've used the Slide Diatonic for all my traditional Irish playing ever since."
The tunings for Brendan's offerings are shown in the lower diagram below.
Seydel also offers a "slide-diatonic" or "double-diatonic" model called the Sampler. Based on their Chromatic Deluxe Steel body (but with a lockable slider), these can come in three stock configurations: C/G, D/A and G/D. Virtually any such tuning can be concocted using their online Configurator.
On August 27, 2019, I introduced the idea of Inverted Bebop here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612#p2619 All twelve keys of this tuning are shown in the upper diagram below. It could be extended in either/both directions for 14- or 16-hole harps.
Each scale's tonics are shown in boldface and a slightly larger font size.
Each major diatonic scale is accompanied by a repeating "extra note" which is two semitones lower than the tonic and is located directly above each tonic. These "extra notes" are shown in parentheses ( ).
As a default, the slider would raise each note by one semitone. However, some users might prefer a "flat-slide" arrangement whereby the slider lowers each note by one semitone.
Brendan very kindly reviewed the first prototype here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612&start=10#p2812
HERE IS MY QUESTION: What are some potentially useful ways that Inverted Bebop could be used in a double-diatonic system? How would your proposed pairings be used in particular kinds of music? Which combinations of key/mode/position would be employed, and why?
I pose this question to the entire Forum because, frankly, the best answers and explanations could never come from me. "Above my pay grade", as they say.
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The tunings for Brendan's offerings are shown in the lower diagram below.
Seydel also offers a "slide-diatonic" or "double-diatonic" model called the Sampler. Based on their Chromatic Deluxe Steel body (but with a lockable slider), these can come in three stock configurations: C/G, D/A and G/D. Virtually any such tuning can be concocted using their online Configurator.
On August 27, 2019, I introduced the idea of Inverted Bebop here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612#p2619 All twelve keys of this tuning are shown in the upper diagram below. It could be extended in either/both directions for 14- or 16-hole harps.
Each scale's tonics are shown in boldface and a slightly larger font size.
Each major diatonic scale is accompanied by a repeating "extra note" which is two semitones lower than the tonic and is located directly above each tonic. These "extra notes" are shown in parentheses ( ).
As a default, the slider would raise each note by one semitone. However, some users might prefer a "flat-slide" arrangement whereby the slider lowers each note by one semitone.
Brendan very kindly reviewed the first prototype here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612&start=10#p2812
HERE IS MY QUESTION: What are some potentially useful ways that Inverted Bebop could be used in a double-diatonic system? How would your proposed pairings be used in particular kinds of music? Which combinations of key/mode/position would be employed, and why?
I pose this question to the entire Forum because, frankly, the best answers and explanations could never come from me. "Above my pay grade", as they say.
download/file.php?mode=view&id=672
download/file.php?mode=view&id=690