Re: [Harp-L] British Petroleum Commercial

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this the one about how great it is to be a tourist in several gulf states (forget those tar balls all over the beach - that ain't nothin')? 

The weird thing is, he's playing second position, and then he switches to first and plays a very clear 6 overblow a couple of times. At first I couldn't figure out why (he could get the same note by staying in second position and playing draw 5).

But then I listened again and noticed that the notes leading up to the 6OB include a quick 4B-4D-4B, which plays very cleanly in first position. To play the same notes in second you'd have to very quickly move to and from Draw 3 bent down two semitones, and do it both cleanly and in tune. I guess it was worth it to punch in those few notes on a different harp, even with the overblow, to get it to sound really clean.

No idea who the player is, though. 
 
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: David Fairweather <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:49 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] British Petroleum Commercial
 
I was just watching the NBC Nightly News a few minutes ago when they aired
a British Petroleum commercial.  I wasn't paying much attention,  it was
one of those sunny generic commercials showing hard hat workers with
smiling faces and I didn't even know it was a BP commercial until the very
end when they're logo came onscreen.   But what caught my ear was a snippet
of country diatonic harmonica playing at the end.   Not only that, but I'm
pretty sure I heard a #6 overblow as it faded out!    I think that's the
first time I've heard an overblow on TV!     I wonder who was playing?