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Accompaniment Playing - Chords - I Want You With Me

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Tue, 11/23/2021 - 00:33
Ashley Field
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Hi David, please can you help me understand why in the Song "I Want You With Me" we are not playing #s for the I, IV and V cords. By my understanding, the cords for the Key of E are as follows: I = E G# B, IV = A C# E, V = B D# F# and we are playing G, C and D natural. Thanks. Ashley  

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Tue, 11/23/2021 - 07:51
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David Barrett
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Hello Ashley. All music

Hello Ashley. All music notation at BluesHarmonica.com is based on you thinking you’re playing a C Harmonica, and this case, in 2nd Position, key of G.

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Tue, 11/23/2021 - 11:52
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Ashley Field
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Understood, thank you David.

Understood, thank you David. Am I correct to assume therefore that a music score from a different source will be written differently? Or is this the way all Harmonica scores are written?

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Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:34
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This is how I do it, but yes,

This is how I do it, but yes, others may do it differently.

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