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Harmonica Center Layerswing
Your browser app to swing your harmonica

HCL Layout explorer Free Circular Layout
Demo video Network video HOW-TO Videos
HCL Harmonica Heritage Network FAQ

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How to use our service

Harmonica Heritage Network Demo video

About HCL

HCL is an advanced app which is based on freeharp.tabber idea published in 2009 by BKB Multimedia

Layout explorer

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With Layout explorer you can visualize layouts for all diatonic harmonicas in all keys, all positions, all chords and main scales like blues, major, minor, pentatonic major and pentatonic minor.

TAB edit & play

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Tab editor helps you to learn and share new songs. You can practice songs, solos, riffs and licks in different tempos and all keys. Hear the sound and see the note.

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With pitch detection you can test whether your harmonica is well tuned. You can train yourself to play your bend notes at an appropriate pitch.

The multitool for your harmonica

Harmonica Center Layerswing is a multitool app to learn, practice and understand diatonic harmonica. A tool to develop your skills as a player and understand music theory beyond the harmonica.

Layouts for chords & scales

With Layout explorer you can set the layout for all 12 keys.

  • all chords for that position

  • all main scales.

Music notation

Music notation feature can be used in combination with scales, arpeggios, tab editor or pitch detection. It's a powerful tool to achieve a professional player level.

Pitch detection

With pitch detection you can test whether your harmonica is well tuned. You can train yourself to play your bend notes at an appropriate pitch.

Circular layout

Circular Layout visualizes the theory of diatonic harmonica based on the circle of fifths.

Designed for useful features

HCL Free Trial for 30 days!
HCL offers a free month of service for eligible customers.
Your free trial subscription lets you experience all HCL features.
All harmonicas, all layouts, chords visualisation, main scales visualization features for free.

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Main features

Layout explorer

You can change tuning and temperament for major brands but it’s possible to customize layouts. For each position number you will see the key of the position and get all the information including - all chords for that position - all main scales. You can visualize 7 chords for 12 positions and the most used scales. For each chord and scale you can see the layout. Press the play button to play the scales or arpeggios for chords at the selected tempo.

TAB edit & play

Beginners and intermediate players can practice new songs or licks with TAB reader and editor.

Set the TAB player tempo by clicking multiple times on the TAP button or change it manually.

Save, share and reuse your TABs at different tempos and different harp keys.

Video course manager

Video course manager is your powerful tool to organise and annotate youtube videos with harmonica related content.
Take your favorite part. Add a tab, play the tab, slowdown the video, save all into preferred category. Append information about author, player, append chord progression.
Slow it down to practice along.

Pitch detection

Pitch detector shows the frequency of your sound. It is useful to test your tuning or practice bend notes and overblows.

Circular Layout

Circular Layout visualizes the theory of diatonic harmonica based on the circle of fifths; Learn scales, chords, blues scales, positions, modes, note intervals, note distance ratios and 12 bar blues chords progression.

Scales & arpeggios player

By pressing a layout button you can hear the selected note. For straight draws and blows the app shows the frequency number based on tuning and temperament. You can see the difference to twelve-tone equal temperament note.

Access Harmonica Heritage Network

Harmonica Heritage Network is an experimental project.
It is a new approach to harmonica related database visualization.
We try data mining in publicly available content about harmonica players, teachers, tutorials, videos, discographies and videographies.
Our adatadoc network analysis system visualises data as a semantic database making the examination of large database more transparent.

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Available & tested on major browsers

Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Safari* (Pitch detection not available)

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Available features

More than 30

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Main modules

Layout explorer
TAB edit & play
Pitch detection
Circular Layout
Play scales & arpeggios
12 bar blues chord progression player

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Network

HCL network data number 2022.01.05

Musician recommendation

Adam Gussow

Adam Gussow

modernbluesharmonica.com

I'm both humbled and grateful that you've expended your considerable intelligence on this particular labor. I WILL share your tabbing system with the members of my blues harp forum. You've done a great thing here. Players and tabbers who come along after me will, I hope, use your system--an improvement on my system!--to do their work.

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  • key finder 12 Key C Key
  • positions finder 12 key x 12 pos
    C key x 1 pos (pos 2)
  • chords 12 key x 12 pos x 7 chords
    C key x pos 2 x 7 chords
  • scales 12 key x 12 pos x 5 scales
    C key x pos 2 x 5 scales
  • Layout explorer
  • Layout change x 6 C
  • Temperament layout 12
  • selection info
  • selection share
  • Harmonica Layout settings
  • Harmonica Temperament settings
  • on click Note Player
  • Chords arpeggio player 12 x 7
    1 x 7
  • Scales player 12 x 5
    1 x 5
  • Circular layout
  • TAB editor
  • TAB player
  • TAB save
  • TAB open
  • TAP Tempo
  • Frequency based sound generator
  • Sound Pitch detection
  • One click share TABs
  • Pitch detection
  • Video Course manager
  • Video Course save
  • Video Course edit
  • Video Course open
  • Harmonica Heritage Network
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  • key finder 12 Key
  • positions finder 12 key x 12 pos
  • chords 12 key x 12 pos x 7 chords
  • scales 12 key x 12 pos x 5 scales
  • Layout explorer
  • Layout change x 6
  • Temperament layout 12
  • selection info
  • selection share
  • Harmonica Layout settings
  • Harmonica Temperament settings
  • on click Note Player
  • Chords arpeggio player 12 x 7
  • Scales player 12 x 5
  • Circular layout
  • TAB editor
  • TAB player
  • TAB save
  • TAB open
  • TAP Tempo
  • Frequency based sound generator
  • Sound Pitch detection
  • One click share TABs
  • Pitch detection
  • Video Course manager
  • Video Course save
  • Video Course edit
  • Video Course open
  • Harmonica Heritage Network
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Dan B.

Dan B.

Jul 28, 2020

multimedia developer since 1997

Macromedia Director, LAMP, js, JAVA, aws services, android

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