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Harmonica Positions - First Position, Second Position, Third Position, WTF?

Learn Why, When, Where and How to play in different positions on the harmonica - https://harpnguitar.com/course-list/h... for the help file, George Goodman's Guitar and Harmonica Method (absolutely free) You need a C harmonica for this one: https://harpnguitar.com/c-hohner-spec... Join the mailing list and get free lessons on guitar and harmonica: https://harpnguitar.com/free-member-r... All right, George here for harpnguitar.com, the website that helps you sound great on guitar and harmonica and today we're going to be talking about playing in different positions on harmonica. Goodman what are you talking about? We're going to go through it and take a high level look because we can get deep into it and talk about changing key signatures, flattening sevenths, going around the circle of fifths and playing in different modes – Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian. But we don't want to do that for this one, maybe in another video but here we're going to take a high level approach to what is playing in positions. Off the top, I played three different segments of three different styles of songs in three different keys all on the same harmonica. We have a C harmonica and I played Catch the Wind, the Donovan folk song in C. Then I played an excerpt of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Cold Shot and that was in a G Blues and then I played a little Santana Black Magic Woman and that's in D minor. These are different keys, different styles of songs and we played them in different positions. That's the only way we can do it to play it on one harmonica. So let's get to it. We're going to look at three positions; we can go further but we're going to stick with our three main positions. First Position Let's start with first position where the harmonica key matches the key of the song. Catch the Wind is a folk song in a major key. That tells us, when we're playing a folk song like a Donovan or a Dylan maybe or maybe a Neil Young song in a major key we want to be playing in first position. We want our harmonica key to match the key of the song. Catch the Wind is in C major and we're going to use our C harmonica. That's first position. That's called playing straight. When we're playing first position C major is the I (one) major chord; the chord that's built off the first note of the C major scale produced on the harmonica by blowing, anywhere. First position can be thought of as a ‘blow’ position. We're going to be mostly blowing anytime we're playing that C chord. The melody notes are pretty much going to be a note in that chord – C, E or G. The melody may have other passing tones but primarily the melody notes are going to be notes in that chord and are going to be blow notes. So when we're in first position, if you look at the tabs for Catch the Wind, they're mostly blowing. Each of these positions concentrates on different areas of the harmonica. What we want to be able to do is produce the predominant chord. In first position, blowing produces the predominant chord. On a C harmonica, the root note is C, which is going to be our main note or tonal center. That's blow four. It's also blow one, blow seven and below ten but we start our major scale at blow four. 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 -7 7 That's the major scale. A lot of the melody is just going to be in that area, blow four being the note C so that can be thought of as home. That area of the harmonica is our first position area, mostly blowing between four and seven. We can go higher, we can go lower but that's our main area for first position. Most of our tabs are going to be in that area and they're mostly going to be blowing. First position is good for folk and pop songs that are in a major key with a nice bright melody. Second Position The second song I did was Stevie Ray Vaughan's Cold Shot in G - not the key that he played it in but that's the key I play it in. This works on a C harmonica. That's second position and that's good for blues or you know, rock with a blues feel. So how do we get there? Go up a fifth - up five notes counting our root note - from where we are in first position – C D E F G. Going up a fifth puts us in second position where we're going to still use our C harmonica but we're going to focus in around this G note and this is at draw 2. Just as blow 4 is our home spot for first position, draw 2 is our home spot in second. As I said, what we want to do when we go to these different positions is we want to be able to make the chord of that key. So when we're in first position, yeah, we want to be able to make C major but here we're going to second position and we do it because we want to play this bluesy stuff. We want to be able to make a G7 chord which is the I chord when we're in a blues kind of setting in second position. We want to be able to make this on our harmonica and we can make a G7: -2 -3 -4 -5