A.S.D. Adjustments
Fri, 08/17/2012 - 18:13
Hi David
Could you give the adjustment setting on the A.S.D. semitones for each harmonica? I didn't know you could do that. I'm limiting my self . just playing the harp that Tab sheet has on it.
Thanks
Hey. I know I'm not Dave but I do this all the time. It's easy. Look at your sheet music and see what harmonica you're playing the song in (not the key of the song, the actual key of the harmonica). Then decide what harmonica you want to play the song in. After that, click on the Pitch scrubber bar (not the arrows, the actual bar) and adjust the semitones accordingly. A semitone is a half step. So for example, if I want to play Gary's Blues with my A harmonica, I would just click twice on the Pitch bar to bring it up 2 semitones from a G harmonica to an A harmonica. This will change the song to the key of E btw. Then try it out. If it sounds bad, you're probably off by a semitone or so. Just adjust accordingly. Just remember that your bending degrees will be different for a different harmonica so you should pull out that tuner to make sure you're hitting them right and not bending out of tune.
-Taylor