![]() If you see 3, 3’’, 2, 3’’, 3, this time, you’re supposed to play a whole-tone bend on hole 3 (double apostrophe), and I think you can guess now that a triple apostrophe on a hole number means you should bend using three-semitones.įor example, let’s take the D blues scale on the lower harmonica octave. The apostrophe tells you that you should draw on hole 4 and play a semitone bending. Let’s look at an example: you might see 4, 4’, 4+, 4’, 4. What happens when we need to write bending on a tab? In this case, it likewise depends on the author. This time, it’s the blow notes that are written without the plus symbol, which is also a legitimate method of notation the important thing when you write tabs is that you should clearly notate when the player should blow or draw in a harmonica hole. Here’s another way the above tabs could be written: 1, 2-, 3, 4. I use very often this notation form my tabs. This is just a way for the author to save space. The same tabs can be written in this way: 1+, 2, 3+, 4 you can see that on the aspirated notes, the minus symbol is missing. If on the tabs you read this: 1+, 2-, 3+, 4-, it means you should play on harmonica hole 1 blow, then hole 2 draw, then the hole 3 blow, and finally, hole 4 draw. You can find some quite similar tabs out there, on which the holes are indicated by numbers. ![]() Let’s have a look at some different ways to notate music, and I want to start right from the harmonica tabs. Once you develop your ear studying music, you can write your own tabs of your favorite harmonica players’ solos or of your own songs. There are many different ways to write tabs, and some of them can adopt an opposite notation that can sometimes confuse the new players. ![]() Whenever you start learning a new musical instrument, you need something to keep as a reference, whether it’s a piece of paper, a pdf document on your laptop, or nowadays, a picture on your smartphone: you need some tabs! These precious documents help every student to learn songs and exercises. ![]()
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