Harmonica Blessing Lesson Two - No Key Signatures & Scales

Your C Major Diatonic Harmonica uses the C Major Diatonic Scale for its construction. This Major scale is built with 5 whole steps and 2 half steps. The half steps are placed between the 2nd and 3rd as well as 7th and 8th scale degrees. The scale is C D E F G A B C. A piano player would play all white keys. For the piano 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. A harmonica player just grabs the B Harmonica. Most other instrumentalists spend their early years learning, memorizing and using scales. We just grab a different keyed harmonica each time and play it the same way as every other key. This allows us to perform music MUCH faster than pretty much every other instrument out there!