![]() In other words, it really depends on the chords that are playing in the background, rather than the notes you play on the lead instrument. The same rule goes for the accordion as well which you can also get for Garageband via my guide. I would argue that playing the blues on the harmonica, like every other instrument, depends a lot more on the musical context than the actual notes that you play with the melodic instrument. To play a G7 (G Dominant 7th), you’d play a G, B, D, and an F. If you wanted to play a G Major Chord, you’d play a G, B, and a D. In other words, if you want the C Major sound, then you go ahead and play a C, E, and then a G. For instance, if you wanted to play a chord with the harmonica, you would have to play each note on its own.Įxplained another way, the harmonica plays chords melodically and as arpeggios, which means you’re playing the notes of the chord on a note-by-note basis. Groups of notes played at the same time are called chords and the online piano course PianoForAll is probably the best way of learning them (their site here).ĭue to the limiting structure of the harmonica, it’s much better to use the instrument to outline chords, rather than play all of the MIDI notes together. The same thing cannot be said for the harmonica. Guitars and pianos can be played both melodically and harmonically in single notes and then groups of notes played at the same time. I mentioned this also in my guide on how to make a country song in Garageband. ![]() In other words, it’s used melodically rather than harmonically which means you play each note one at a time, rather than in harmony which is different from playing the piano or guitar. ![]() When you try to play a chord with it, which isn’t really possible with a harmonica in real-life, you end up with a bizarre sound.Ī harmonica like this set from Amazon is typically a melodic instrument. In other words, when you press ‘C’ on the Musical Typing, you actually get a C note from the harmonica, and when you press on a ‘C#’ you also get a C#. Each note of the MIDI Keyboard or Garageband’s Smart Controls functions as it normally would for a software instrument. The notes of the harmonica are subject to change, depending on the type of harmonica.įor instance, real-life harmonicas actually come in a variety of formats, with most of them using the Key of C Major, the most common key signature in Western Music Theory, or at least the key signature on which the rest of music theory is based.įrom what I can tell, Serpo’s harmonica is actually a chromatic harmonica, which means that it’s not tied to any particular key signature.
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