Hello,
I can't read harmonica notes yet. I found these notes from internet and I would really like to learn these songs.
I would really appreciate if someone could turn these notes into harp tabs. Thank you
First song:
Second song:
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This is why reading music can be a hugely helpful skill. If you could read musical notation, you wouldn't be helpless and asking for someone to translate it to tab.
Tab tells you what to do to get notes to ome out of a specific instrument - guitar tab is no use for harmonica.
Musical notation tells you the resulting notes but doesn't tell you how to get them. That's why, for example, you can read flute music or song sheets on harmonica if you can read notation.
One other thing: notation tells you rhythm, i.e., how long the notes last. Tab leaves you in the dark unless you already know what the song sounds like.
Both songs (Finnish folk songs or hymns, maybe?) are notated here in the key of C# Major (a pretty strange choice, actually - D-flat would be more efficient and more common).
Why not tab these out yourself? It's a lot of work but you'll also learn a lot. Here's how to do it:
1) Learn about key signatures. I'll give you a shortcut here. Those seven sharps (they look like hashtags but have been around for about a thousand years longer) at the beginning of each line of music tell you that all seven notes of the scale - A, B, C, D, E, F, and G - are sharped - C is C# (C-sharp), D is D-sharp, and so on. A sharp raises a note one semitone higher, like going one fret or one key to the right on a piano. A sharp in the key signature raises the pitch of a note through the entire tune unless contradicted by an accidental that will temporarily change the note to a sharp, flat, or back to a natural (see below for more on that).
2) Learn which note names (A, B, C, D, etc.) are on which line or space on the staff (the stack of five lines that music is written on). You can easily find this information online.
3) Learn how the natural sign (seen frequently in front of notes in the examples you posted) returns a note to its "natural" pitch - not raised by a sharp or lowered by a flat.
4) Under each note, write the note name, such as C, A#, etc. (Remember that most notes are altered to sharps in the tunes you posted.)
5) Figure out which key of harmonica will give you all or most of the notes in the tune. (To make this easier, write a checklist of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, and check off which ones you find in the tune. Be sure to remember which ones in the tune are affected by the key signature. You could highlight those ones in your checklist to make it easier.
6) Once you have the right harp, look at a tuning layout for that key (you can find them in the appendixes to Harmoncia For Dummies, for example) and write the tab under the notes.
As I said, this could be a lot of work just to play some tunes you like, but it will EMPOWER you to figure out nearly any tune.