The Chromatic Scale music

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The chromatic harmonica features a button around the side which permits you to play the normal big scale, and with the button depressed, provides you all of the half measures or notes in amongst.

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This allows you to play any scale, in any key, but you
can't bend notes quite well on this instrument so you do not get the same "bluesy" sound as around the diatonic.

Reading music and song tab for the chromatic- The chromatic harmonica hole layout is related (in some cases known as "Solo" tuning) for the diatonic hole layout (referred to as "Richter" tuning), but not the identical, so song tablature is distinctive.

Many achieved chromatic players are in a position to study common music notation which eliminates the need for song tab.

The chromatic is largely made use of for jazz, classical, and pop music- The chromatic harmonica is typically made use of in jazz, classical, pop, and music where the melodies need more than a 7-note scale (just like the one on a typical diatonic).

A classic example of exactly where a chromatic could be necessary would be the theme song to "Midnight Cowboy". The original theme to "Sesame Street" was also played on a chromatic.

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Folks who play the chromatic harmonica- Stevie Wonder, Toots Thielemans, and Larry Adler are three on the finest identified players of this instrument.