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Heard this and bought a harp - Special 20 C progressive. I just want to learn this song and don’t know if this will be crazy hard or if I even I have the right kind of harp.?

The harp comes in at 38 seconds then again at 1;50. Short song. I have issues.

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@HobbyHunter
Welcome friend . That harp playing in that song would get me hooked too . You picked a great harmonica to start with also . Oh , let the addiction begin :winking_face_with_tongue: and happy harpin’

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@HobbyHunter - welcome to the forum!

Tsong is in A and would be pretty challenging to play in 2nd position on a D harp. Probably easier to approach it in 3rd position on a G harp.

LMK if you buy a G harp. Rock on! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Another possibility, depending on your objective, is to use an app to transpose the song to the key that works with your C harp.

Luke suggested a G harp (3rd position) would be a good choice. (Gonna trust him on that! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:). So if you transpose up 2 & 1/2 steps (from A to D), your C harp would fit.

I’m on Android (not Apple). I use an app called Music Speed Changer, which is awesome. You can change pitch by any amount, change tempo, and loop song sections to repeat continuously. Another app is Up Tempo, which will even (somehow!) let you fix the “chipmunk” voice that results from shifting up.

Not sure what the best iPhone / iPad apps are.

Great song! Good luck.

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This harp solo sounds unnatural. Stolen by AI from other samples. Interesting that in YouTube I got notice: “Do you agree to train our AI software on Your video”. I’ve clicked “no”, but I don’t think it matters.

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