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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | How do you bend the upper notes?
I can play blues fairly well with bends up to the 6th hole, but it feels like I'm wasting 40% of my harmonicas. |
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Location: enid, ok | Practice lots, educate and emulate. That's how I learned how to bend notes on a guitar. Clapton doesn't do it by proxy. It takes much effort. I didn't realize how much until I started hearing bar bands the last 10 years or so, and they don't or do it badly because that's all they can do-they are LAZY! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Get a Lower Key Harp...
And Max... It was not until I tried to teach myself how to play guitar (pretty recently, as far as my lifespan goes) that I really started to appreciate the talent that I hear in music.
Maybe they ARE lazy, or maybe they think that they are better than they really are...
Humility goes a long way. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Thanks OMA, but is the technique much different to the lower holes, given that it's BLOW as opposed to DRAW?
I can't get it to bend even a little.
Max, you can't really compare bending a guitar string with bending a blues harp. |
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Location: GA USA | Muzza, I've played harp for a long time and never mastered the blow bend. I haven't really tried, either, but I found this article...
bending
It says that not only do the draw and blow bend take different techniques, but so do different key harps, so OMA may have the right solution. That, and get away from people with sensitive ears and practice a long time.
Also at the same website, I saw a model called the Hohner Extreme Bend harp, that enables the player to bend on all holes with standard bending techniques... haven't heard of that... never mind, it's $80.
Extreme Bend |
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advice needed from blues harp players
