Re: [Harp-L] valve bending exercises

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Putting the bend in the context of a melody can make it more interesting and usefull-seeming, and helps you hear when the bend is in tune.

The opening to Mood Indigo might be a good one. It has long sustained notes and uses both the bent and unbent notes

b before the note is a semitone of bend. B and D after the hole number are Blow and Draw.


2B b2B 2B 2B    3B b2B 2B

2B b2B 2B 2B   b2B b2B b1D (!) 1B b1B  bbb1B bb1B b1B

OK, maybe a 3 semitone bend on Blow 1 is a bit much - so sue me.

And yes, that flat Draw 1 is correct. 


Winslow

Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
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 From: "philharpn@xxxxxxx" <philharpn@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 1:01 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] valve bending exercises
 
Anybody have any valve bending exercises that help fine-tune blow bends?


Like tunes or riffs that use the Eb (blow bend 2)? And more than one bend on blow 1? (Bb) or Blow 4(Bb)?


Simply playing blow bends in isolation is boring -- and probably off pitch for most people without using keyboard to match notes.