G’day @HarpinBobbyMcB, and @Luke.
I’m just using them as passing notes in the first position, hitting them at speed, but unlike the standard tuning, or Harmonic Minor tuning, with Natural Minor tuning, the notes on draw 6 and 7 are only a semitone apart, which doesn’t sound good at all if one bleeds into the other, it sounds discordant. Draw 7 and 8 seem more unpleasant together too.
Apart from a couple of songs I’m writing in minor keys Bobby, a ‘lead break’ using a minor scale sounds good over just about any progression, minor or major, that’s why it’s so commonly done on guitar.
My main goal with playing harmonica is to have interesting lead breaks in the songs I’m recording, and I find a minor tuning allows for that much better than the standard tuning does, it’s more like playing guitar.
With the harmonic tuning in particular, I find that I can play as I feel, and the notes are about where I expect them to be as I go up and down the harmonica.
Here’s a rough mix of one of my songs I put on YouTube. It’s one of the group of songs I call my unoriginal originals.
It’s just an incomplete mix, I put it up so I could share it with my family and bandmates easily. Also, a bit of an experimenting with DaVinci Resolve.
So one goal, is to record something for this.
If I played a lead break on guitar, which I’m not very practiced at ( it was never my job in the band ), I’d used the Em scale, so I’d rather just have a minor tuned harmonica rather than to try it with standard tuning.
The Bm tuned T00K is giving me some sort of Em scale, I haven’t mapped it out as yet, I’m assuming it’s the same as the Lee Oskar’s though.
It’s a great harmonica to play, already a new favourite!
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