Not sure if you'll get a notification because your comment on that vid is is 3 years old lol but it's an E Blues so you'll want an A harp
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Hulavuta
lol forgot I commented. that's amazing hahaha. yeah didn't learn harmonica until 2 years after I made that comment though :thinking:
Hulavuta
so blues keys are different? I honestly am very rusty on my music theory since I play everything by ear :[
Lego
Yeah, Blues uses the imaginatively named Blues Scale, which is based off the minor rather than the Major that the Harp is tuned to. Potential wall of text incoming
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The pentatonic Blues scale consists of (in terms of scale degrees): 1, 3b, 4, 5, 7b, (8) - ie a C Blues scale consists of these notes: http://i.imgur.com/hX7KQEO.png
Other popular notes (commonly known as 'Blue notes') are the 4#/5b (which would be F#/Gb in the above example) and the 6 (which would be A in the example above). These notes add colour to the scale.
Other popular notes (commonly known as 'Blue notes') are the 4#/5b (which would be F#/Gb in the above example) and the 6 (which would be A in the example above). These notes add colour to the scale.
Lego
So, now that we know that we want C, Eb, F, (Gb), G, (A) and Bb to play a C blues, we need to work out what harp would give us the most of those notes.
If we take a look at the harp, we notice that blowing holes 1-4 give us the tonic major chord (1-3-5-8) and drawing holes 1-4 gives us a dominant second inversion chord (2-5-7-2). Holes 4-7 complete the tonic major scale and then holes 8-10 give us the I chord and the ii chord (I'm not entirely sure about octaves but see here: http://imgur.com/a/kH0Q4)
If we take a look at the harp, we notice that blowing holes 1-4 give us the tonic major chord (1-3-5-8) and drawing holes 1-4 gives us a dominant second inversion chord (2-5-7-2). Holes 4-7 complete the tonic major scale and then holes 8-10 give us the I chord and the ii chord (I'm not entirely sure about octaves but see here: http://imgur.com/a/kH0Q4)