Re: [Harp-L] Draw 2 vs Blow 3 (diatonic)

[Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah cheers Robert, I spend I don't know how long learning that piece of
poetry by Palmer.
It has stayed with me through all my playing. That to me, is the guts of
the diatonic harmonica.
Start with that, and you're on the right road.
PS
No, that is a standard tuned Richter.
I have played that piece for forty years.


On 23 August 2013 02:32, Robert Hale <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> listen to Palmer McAbee's 'Lost Boy Blues':
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mjskqn1h4
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> Oh my! That's FUN!!
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> Love the sustaining of the common tone (D2-B3) while the chords push back
> and forth.
> Now, that quick 2nd tone of the scale around :45...sounds too perfect to
> be a bend...but the rest is clearly diatonic/richter. Hmmm.
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> Great lesson in tongue blocking, too. (whew) Thanks, Rick.
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