Posted by Jerryrig240 on September 2, 2009 at 10:38am
I have never really thought much about guitar keys, so here I am looking at a chart online on guitar keys.....the guitar chord A is not in the key of a acording to this chart. Ohh, please someone with more musical talent help me. I want to play cross harp on some songs....but need to do some homework first.
Where do they get the title of the key, if the chord is not even in the list of chords. for example...on the chart I am looking at the key of D is....Em...F#m....G....A.....Bm.....C#0......
Mind you....I stunk at music in school and I was kicked out of choir, so be gentle on me.
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He meant chords. The key refers to the grouping of notes that make the scale (Think Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do). Chords are made by playing (usually) 3 or more of those notes at the same time.
Jerryrig240 said:
You said most blues songs are in three basic chords d, g, a....did you mean chords or keys?
Keni Lee Burgess said:
Hello, Did you see the charts on my page? Okay, The Key of D is (d e f# g a b c# d) The three basic chords for most blues songs are d, g, a (tones 1,4,5) in this key If you want to play in the cross harp style while the guitar is playing blues in the key of D you would play a harp in the key of g (g a b c d e f# g) (4th tone of the key of D) Now to understand why this works is, if you look at the 5 note blues scale in the key of D (d f g a c) Your cross harp harmonica will provide these notes better than playing in a straight key of D harp. I hope this helps you to understand this better. Go to youtube, there is tons of information on Harp. Enjoy.
Try this...We talk about chord progressions. A common blues progression is 1-4-5 Doesn't matter what key you're talking about, it's the chords you make from the notes in that key.
In "E", The progression would be "E" (major), "A" (major) and then B7 (Usually, the 5th chord is a seventh in blues and many pop songs.)
You said most blues songs are in three basic chords d, g, a....did you mean chords or keys?
Keni Lee Burgess said:
Hello, Did you see the charts on my page? Okay, The Key of D is (d e f# g a b c# d) The three basic chords for most blues songs are d, g, a (tones 1,4,5) in this key If you want to play in the cross harp style while the guitar is playing blues in the key of D you would play a harp in the key of g (g a b c d e f# g) (4th tone of the key of D) Now to understand why this works is, if you look at the 5 note blues scale in the key of D (d f g a c) Your cross harp harmonica will provide these notes better than playing in a straight key of D harp. I hope this helps you to understand this better. Go to youtube, there is tons of information on Harp. Enjoy.
Hello,
Did you see the charts on my page?
Okay, The Key of D is (d e f# g a b c# d)
The three basic chords for most blues songs are d, g, a (tones 1,4,5) in this key
If you want to play in the cross harp style while the guitar is playing blues in the key of D
you would play a harp in the key of g (g a b c d e f# g) (4th tone of the key of D)
Now to understand why this works is, if you look at the 5 note blues scale in the key of D (d f g a c)
Your cross harp harmonica will provide these notes better than playing in a straight key of D harp.
I hope this helps you to understand this better.
Go to youtube, there is tons of information on Harp.
Enjoy.
The chords they are listing are the ones you might play if you were making a chord melody which followed the D major scale. That last one is likely C#dim or maybe C#min7b5 (the "half diminished" chord).
In "cross harp" style, you would play a D harp if the guitar player was playing an A blues, and then find the root note
at the 2nd hole draw. In an A major blues, you will very rarely play any chords other than A7, D7, and E7.
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Jerryrig240 said:
In "E", The progression would be "E" (major), "A" (major) and then B7 (Usually, the 5th chord is a seventh in blues and many pop songs.)
Keni Lee Burgess said:
Did you see the charts on my page?
Okay, The Key of D is (d e f# g a b c# d)
The three basic chords for most blues songs are d, g, a (tones 1,4,5) in this key
If you want to play in the cross harp style while the guitar is playing blues in the key of D
you would play a harp in the key of g (g a b c d e f# g) (4th tone of the key of D)
Now to understand why this works is, if you look at the 5 note blues scale in the key of D (d f g a c)
Your cross harp harmonica will provide these notes better than playing in a straight key of D harp.
I hope this helps you to understand this better.
Go to youtube, there is tons of information on Harp.
Enjoy.
In "cross harp" style, you would play a D harp if the guitar player was playing an A blues, and then find the root note
at the 2nd hole draw. In an A major blues, you will very rarely play any chords other than A7, D7, and E7.