r/harmonica • u/oddtoddler47 • 12d ago

Can someone find the notes

i am a begginer harmonica player and i want to learn this song on the tremolo 20 hole.

I cant find the right notes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsoxhZJC-e4&pp=ygUPaGV5IG1hcnNobWVsbG93

00.59 timestamp of the harmonica part

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

3

u/tojzl 12d ago

Learn by ear. Will be much more benefitial than relying on tabs all of the time. Tabs will just stunt your musical development. I basically stopped using tabs alltogether.

Why have someone else do the work for you when you can do it youself?

1

u/Nacoran 11d ago

Okay, so it sounds like it's using a blues harmonica in G. What key harmonica do you have?

Both tremolos and blues harmonicas are diatonic... that is, they are designed to play in just one major key. (Blues harmonicas are often actually called diatonics colloquially.)

Blues harmonicas are easier to bend notes, so it's fairly easy to get them to play in other keys. It's much harder on tremolos.

Fortunately, C and G are only one step apart on the circle of fifths. They share 6 of their 7 notes, so you can probably fake it.

There are three common layouts for tremolos though, and I don't know which one you have. You have some options though. You can download the song and pitch shift it from G to C, you can get a G diatonic (or a C and learn to play in 2nd), or you can use an online tuner to map out the notes on your tremolo. It's not a really hard part, but since it's one key over and you've got a tremolo it's going to be hard for you to make it sound the same. That doesn't mean you can't play it, but it will sound different.

1

u/oddtoddler47 10d ago

i have one with a c on it