Harmonica Key/note/hole Chart printable pdf download

HARMONICA KEY/NOTE/HOLE CHART

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I use this chart to convert music notation, in different keys, to the hole numbers of the

Major Diatonic Harmonica. The top row are the harmonica's hole numbers. The black

numbers (capital letters) represent blowing the note, and the red numbers (small letters)

represent drawing the note. The blue (1

) column furthest left are the key names. I have

chosen the most popular keys which cover about 98% of all harmonica music.

As an example of how to use the the chart, If I arrange a piece of music in the key of F,

and on my music score the first note I come to is an 'A', I go to the row that starts with 'F'

and I move my finger across until I get to an 'A' and I see that I have three choices of 'A'

along the line. Which A you choose is entirely up to where it comes in the piece, sometimes you

need to start on a low note, sometimes a middle note, and sometimes a high note. In this case

I will choose a middle range 'A' and choose the second A in the row. If I then follow the column

up to the top row & I see that that 'A' needs to be a blown 5 hole. So I write 5 in black above the

note in the score. My next note in the score is a 'D'. So again I go along the 'F' row, because that is

the key that the piece is in, until I come to the next 'D' above the A I had previously chosen, why

above, well that is the way the note is moving in the score. So the next 'D' above 'A' in the 'F' row

is in the red 6 column, so I write a red six above the note in the score. Remember the red tells me

that it is a draw note, which I have to indicate in the Tab. And that is it, I do this for all the notes in

my arrangement until I have completed the 'hole mapping'. Then I transcribe it in TableEdit as a tab.

Harmonica Key/note/hole Chart