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Gene Oh:
https://youtu.be/roi9z4Dx2xU?si=HtmNuXIab3fm5_mn

Today I came across the above YouTube video in which the player used "chords(?)" - I don't know what I need to call this in harmonica music in English.
Anyhow, I like it very much. If possible, I want to learn (or emulate) this technique. What is your opinion?
Gene

Danny G:
I think she is playing an Asian tuned tremolo

Grizzly:
As long as it's solo tuned, it doesn't matter. All of what she's playing is notes available in the key in which the harmonica is built. There are suggestions of more complete chords (triads) that fool the ear. Major and minor thirds are combined with arpeggiated single notes to complete the illusion. Artisically and cleverly done.

Tom

Age:
 Yeah, I call it "tongue thumping." True, there are a couple actual chords in there but that's it; the rest are "assumed," or "perceived" to be the proper chords.

John Broecker:
Tongue thumping is also known as vamping,
in harmonica lingo. A chord, in music, is 3
or more notes played together.

If the player in the example is vamping, there
are very few actual chords (simultaneous playing
of three or more notes) available for use on a
solo system reed placement harmonica.

So, the performer uses various techniques to
give an impression of chords:

Vamping "oom-pa-pa" or "oom-pa"- the root
(lowest note) of the chord "oom", followed by
the 2nd & 3rd chord notes in a "diad", (two
notes played together):

   E E       E  E                   E      E
C G G,  C G  G, waltz; or C G, C G , etc., polka

Arpeggios ("broken chords"-playing the chord
melodically, one note at a time):

C E G, C E G, or the inversions E G C, E G C,
or G C E, etc.

Ghost notes (selected notes of a 3-note chord
are omitted, or notes not part of the traditional chord
are added) by the performer, omitted notes written
here in parenthesis (C), added non-chord notes are
written here as [d]:

f a (C)- on a key of C harp, the notes f-a draw are 
available, but the F chord's (C) blow note is exhale.
Exhale and inhale reeds can't be played together.

The exhale C note is not played as part of the f chord.
An E minor chord (E g b) is not playable, the E note is
an exhale, the g b notes are inhale.

d f a b- on a key of C harp, all 4 notes are playable
together inhale, but not as a d minor chord. The b note
may be added to the d minor chord, changing the chord
to b diminished chord, or d minor 6th chord. Those are
not always acceptable to the listener's ears, or to the
composer's intent.

Three-note chords available on a key of C solo system
slide chromatic, slide out:

C and C inversions;
d minor and d minor 6th (a 4-note chord);
b diminished

The key of C solo system harp doesn't have an available
G dominant or dom. 7th chord, the second most important
chords in the key of C.

Hans Bilbus was disturbed by Larry Adler's use of improper
chords while Larry was vamping on his Super Chromonica,
so Bilbus invented the Hohner Harmonetta, patented in 1947.
 
Best Regards, Stay Healthy

JB

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