Aloha, I took your course to learn the harmonica and really enjoy your form of instruction, but when I got to Module 3 I realized I also wanted to learn music theory and hopped to Module 9. I thought it would teach me why some tabs on sheet music would show a draw 4 arrow but the note on the music sheet was the first note below the 5 staff lines (a draw 1, still the same note but an octave lower). If you can understand my question why do they do that?
If the screen shot doesn’t work the first note in The House of the Rising Sun shows 4draw but the printed note below the 5th line is a 1 draw.
you are on a c harmonica. Notes as above. If you started on a blow 1. you would need to be able to bend. holes 2 and 3 really well. Too difficult. When looking at sheet music think of the letter note then a chart as above. Transcibe twice. First into the note then into the appropriate hole. Practice scales with the note names not the tabs.
Lukes lessons are on C Harmonica in second position. That means key of G. Not straight c. When I started it felt like looking through glasses covered in mud now they’re just greasy. Keep at it and keep asking
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In addition to the words from @toogdog there is another reason for this:
If you look at the other notes on the score you will see that the harp tabs are all for notes that are an octave higher (when played on a common C blues harp). Writing the score notes all one octave higher puts many of the notes above the five staff lines, and most/many people find that more difficult to read compared to the notes being mostly on the staff lines (and spaces) as it currently is shown.
Thanks for the replies, that clears it up.
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