Re: House of the Rising Sun

[John Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HARMONICA JOHN	San Diego  PO Box 740613 SD CA 92174 (619)263-6826

God, family, music, fishing, work.	 Can blue men play the whites?

On Sat, 10 Jun 1995 JJTHADEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> >	H-o-t-R-S is generally played in Am.  Am-C-D-F--Am C-E etc...
> >	Try a G harp played slant. This uses the 1d & 4d as tonic notes. 
> >The scale you want is 4d 5b 5d 6b 6d 7d 7b 8d.
> >	Try a Lee OsKar natural minor as well. The key would be Am unless 
> I use an F harp or a low F harp sometimes for leads, or a G chromatic.
> 
This means you are playing in 5th position or what I refer to as double 
cross-harp on the F in key of Am.  The chromatic G you are playing in 3rd 
pos. or whay I would call slant harp, which is the most popular 
position(as far as I can tell) for blues players to play chromatic on 
minor key somgs like hotrs and thrill is gone, or I wouldn't treat a dog 
the way you treated me (Bobby Blue Bland)