[Harp-L] Re: 5 draw-bend (yet again)

[Mojo Red <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Aalprice@xxxxxxx wrote:
> As i was thinking about it it occured to me that
> i use these notes a  lot,especially when playing 
> blues. Is there a note when we  bend that draw 
> 5? I would say, aye there is indeed, but it 
> doesn't really have a name in european/western 
> musical traditions.   

Thanks Al!

You reminded me of how Little Walter used that 5
draw 1/4-step-bend bend so effectively in his
imortal song, Juke -- somewhere in the first part
of the third go-round of that oft-studied
instrumental. Yupper, very nice little blues-tool
indeed is the 5 draw-bend.

Harpin' in Colorado,
--Ken M.


	
		
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