Re: [Harp-L] Will Scarlett-5th Position

[moandabluz@xxxxxxx]

I think it was our friend Warren Bee who talked about playing in fifth 
position a while back. Since I admire Mr. Bee's playing so much, I've 
been trying to figure it out a little, but I'm very positionally 
challenged. Anybody got any tips that might get me started?  Funny 
sometimes how just one little thing can help. Once at a Buckeye 
Festival, I was trying to understand third position and Chris Michalek 
told me to just start on 6 draw and go from there. Still now whenever I 
try to use third position, that pops in my head and it does work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Steve "Moandabluz" Webb
still an old fool for the harp in Minnesota


-----Original Message-----
From: mark wilson <markwilson53@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Will Scarlett-5th Position

On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Garry Hodgson wrote:Â
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> will played on tuna's first album "hot tuna", and their second,Â

> "first pull up, then pull down".  but hesitation blues is only onÂ

> the first album, and there is no harp on that version.  don'tÂ

> know where else mark might've heard it.Â
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It's on one of their live albums, but I'm not sure which.  Someone 
mentioned "Live At Berkley", butÂ

I couldn't locate that disk anywhere on the web.  I'm also trying to 
track down another recording inÂ

5th by Jr Wells titled "Quit Breakin' Down".  Can't find any info on 
that one either.Â
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I started messing around with 5th after it came up on the list about a 
month ago and I'm loving it.Â

There's a lot of meat in the 2 and 3 draw bends that can be milked to 
great effect. Unlike 4th position, ItÂ

can be VERY bluesy without sounding too minor.Â
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Unfortunately, there's not a lot of material out there to mine for 
ideas, so any suggestions would be appreciated.Â
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Thanks for all the replies!Â

MarkÂ
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