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Tue, 07/21/2020 - 08:15
Arieta Nederveen
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Why are you playing on a A harmonica and have your musical notation in C? That doesn't make sense to me. You can't really see what you are doing so you have to play by ear, what's the use of playing on an A harmonica and not use the right musical notation?

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Tue, 07/21/2020 - 08:23
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David Barrett
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Hello Arieta. Everything is

Hello Arieta. Everything is written in what is known as C Score. All of the music notation is based on you thinking that you're playing on a C Harmonica. To change keys, you just change harmonicas, but you can still read, and think, on the C harmonica... the holes, movement, breathing, and technique all remain the same... the harmonica does the transposing for you. The advantage of this is that you only need to learn how to read in one key and memorize one key of harmonica (apposed to memorizing all twelve major keys in music and the note layouts of all 12 major keys of harmonica).

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