Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet

Lesson Length: 2:56
Instructor: George Goodman

This session is all about the vi  minor 7 chord and where it lands on the diatonic harmonica when played in first position.

Harmonica Cheat Sheets pdf

Hohner Special 20 in C
In this lesson, as in most of the lessons, I am playing a Hohner Special 20 in the key of C.

vi minor 7 Harmonica Tabs

In this session we are looking at the Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet and in particular the vi Minor 7 chord.

Where do the notes that make up the vi minor 7 chord land over the full range of the diatonic harmonica?

The Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet harmonica tabs are divided into 4 columns.
7th chords are made up of four notes with each note in the chord represented by a particular column.
The first column shows the root of the chord.
The second column displays the 3rd of the chord.
The third column shows the 5th of the chord and the fourth column is the 7th of the chord.

The first row of tabs for the vi m7 chord starts in the second column, the 3rd of the chord, blow 1.
The 5th of the chord is blow 2.
The 7th of the chord can then be found at blow 3 or draw 2 as these are the same note due to the peculiar tuning of the diatonic harmonica.
The full vi minor 7 chord can be seen in the second row beginning with the root at draw 3 with a double bend.
The third of the chord is blow 4.
The fifth is blow 5 and the 7th is at blow 6.

1 2 3
-3bb 4 5 6

The next octave starts with the root at draw 6.
The 3rd of the chord is blow 7.
The 5th of the chord is blow 8 and the 7th of the chord is blow 9.

-6 7 8 9

In the next octave we can only play a partial vim7 chord with the root at draw 10 and the 3rd of the chord at blow 10.

The vi minor 7 tabs over the full range of the diatonic mouth harp are:

1 2 3
-3bb 4 5 6
-6 7 8 9
-10 10

Wrap Up

The Harmonica Chord Cheat Sheet displays the tabs that make up the seventh chords built upon each degree of the major scale.
Seventh chords are four note chords consisting of a root, third, fifth and seventh.
Each of these notes are displayed in columns in the chart.
The root is the first column, the 3rd is the second column, the 5th is in the third column and the 7th is in the fourth column.

The tabs for the vi minor 7 chord over the full range of the mouth harp are as follows:

1 2 3
-3bb 4 5 6
-6 7 8 9
-10 10