@Cassia: usually when there are extra holes on the harmonica notes are added on the low end as the high end doesn't get played much and is pretty high already. Check the SBS tunings to see what happens to those extra notes at the lowend.

I was trying to figure out the tunes on my harmonica by comparing it with my piano, and I got it all done. But, I was wondering...What if there was an 11th hole? What would its note be?

Thanks Titus, it's back to school for me ;)

@Kieron You have it completely wrong :)
F is the fifth of Bb so it is second position on a Bb harmonica. The fact that it is major or minor doesn't change the fact that it is second position. If the tune was in Ab major or Ab minor then it would be 11th position.

Hi Tinus,

I was wondering if you could help me with a position question. I have always played by ear and my music theory knowledge is sadly lacking, but I am slowing trying to put this right and your videos are a great help.

Here I am playing 'Michelle'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JVP7Vk2yk) which I believe is in the key of Fm (but I am not 100% certain). If it is, then It is my understanding that Ab is the relative key to Fm, looking on my circle of fifths diagram.

I am playing a Bb harmonica, so am I in 11th postion or have I got this completely wrong? :) There are overblows on 4 & 6 and 3 draw bends on hole 3.

Thank you



Regards


Kieron

Motivated by listening to Lionel Ritchie's "Hello" I dug my harps out (about 8 years dormant) and tried to find the right key. I have one Natural minor harp [Lee Oskar Am(N)] and this one seems to do it. Having a little difficulty with an occassional note, I wanted to be sure of the actual notes used in this harp scale. Took me ages, and I'm not 100% sure I have the answer yet.

Then I found your website. I have not really explored it yet, but I am mightily impressed. Your website may cause me to take up the harp again.

Thank you in anticipation of future music.

Purchase a minor scale? But it is already yours. You can sing it while you walk down the street and there will be no lawyers trying to claim copyright.

would like to purchase the whole minor scalewhere do i go

In general all the scales that have rootnotes that are played as an overblow or bent note are difficult because of the difficulty in starting on the right pitch. Once you have the right starting pitch you will be okay.
Especially difficult are the Eb minor scales. The lower one because of the hole 1 overblow that it starts on. The higher one because the transition between the hole 8 bent note and the hole 7 overdraw is a difficult one to play fluently.

Impressive. Is there a particularly difficult one?