Harmonica Blessing #2 - No Key Signatures & Scales

Your C Major Diatonic Harmonica uses the C Major Diatonic Scale. The Major scale is built with 5 whole steps and 2 half steps. The half steps are placed between the 2nd and 3rd scale degrees and 7th and 8th scale degrees. The scale turns out to be C D E F G A B C. As a piano player you would play all white keys. For the piano player to play the B Major Diatonic Scale they would start on the B key on the piano and make sure to use all of the whole steps and half steps in their proper order, which would equal B C# D# E F# G# A# B. As a harmonica player we just grab the B Harmonica. Most other instrumentalists spend their first couple of years learning, memorizing and using scales. We just grab a different keyed harmonica and play it the same way as every other key. This allows us to play music MUCH faster than pretty much every other instrument out there.