This is the version I've been playing along to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dg8vRDM68

Here's another version by a guy on a chromatic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZJwjiYmOI

I'll try to get a video up of me playing it for a critique.

The Chuck M. version is in the key of "F". Because the melody is based on an "F" Major scale (at least in the beginning), it would NOT work great in 2nd Position unless you used a Lee Oskar Melody Maker or a Hohner "Country Tuned" Special 20. A standard diatonic in the key of "F" could be played in 1st Position, but it would be awfully high. You could get an octave low "F" (Lee Oskar or Hohner) and that would work better. Chromatic would ultimately be the best and easiest.

The melody starts off with these notes of the Major Scale (these are scale degrees not hole numbers, actual notes are below)-

3 4 5 (up to) 2 1 7 1

A Bb C G F E F

Let me know what harmonica you want to try this on and I will help get you started.

The guy on chromatic is in the same key and starts on hole 3D ("A").

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Thanks for the notes. To start, let me fool around with it in 1st position on my F harp (not using it for anything else!).

I think I would be most curious to get a tab for the Melody Maker.

Cool, thanks again.

No problem. On a standard "F" in 1st Position, start on hole 5 Blow.

I think I would be most curious to get a tab for the Melody Maker.

One of the negatives of the Melody Maker is that hole 3B is NOT the same as hole 2D as is typical on a diatonic. Hole 3B is now the second note of the major scale which is good and bad.

The "good" is that you don't have to bend hole 3D to get the second note of the scale. The "bad" is that you don't have the cool bending sound from bending hole 3. Yin and Yang.

Let me know how it goes.

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