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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:22:22 -0600
From: "TD"
Subject: Re: harmonica tab

What a great idea! I have Melody Assistant as well and will try this. It
just might accelerate my process of learning to read on the diatonic.
Thanks,
/tim
sixtiesja~ahoo.com

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "jazmaan"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: harmonica tab

>
>
> Iron Mike posted recently about whether harmonica tab is useful. Without
re-quoting
> him, he seems to take the position that it is of little utility to the
reasonably
> competent player as compared to standard notation (SN).
>
> Personally I favor a system that combines SN with harmonica tab. This is
the system
> that I use with Melody Assistant. By using SN with different colored
noteheads to
> indicate whether a particular note is achieved by blow, draw, full bend,
half bend,
> overblow or overdraw, I can "sight read" a melody line much more easily
than if I
> didn't have the colored notes to guide me.
>
> Melody Assistant will also give you the traditional arrows and numbers
right on the
> same staff with the colored notes, but 99 percent of the time I can just
ignore the
> traditional tab because the colored notes provide sufficient guidance.
>
>
>
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