Re: [Harp-L] Bluegrass/powerbender?

[Eric Miller <miller.eric.t@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jwilliam-

At a high level, Brendan's powertunings do two things:

-remove the blow/draw flip holes 7-10 on a richter and replace it with the
same intuitive pattern from holes 1-6

-essentially eliminates the need to learn overblows, and (IMHO) produces
the bluesy notes in the upper octave (normally achieved w/ OBs) in a much
cleaner and controllable fashion.  I'm not an OB player, but I can pick out
the OB's of skilled players, because of the detectable  squawk. Playing a
*bender, those same notes up top are just simple, clean, easy to
vibrato/trem draw bends.  (I still struggle with the 10D bend, but the rest
are easy cheesy)

General info on the pbender is here
http://www.brendan-power.com/The%20POWERBENDER.htm

more detailed info is here
http://www.brendan-power.com/images/POWERBENDER%20first%20few%20Pages.pdf

It might help to know that Brendan also has two other power tunings with
similar philosophies:power draw and powerblow.  I play both pbenders and
pdraws.  The pbenders are nicer for melodic stuff, and the pdraws are nicer
for blues because you don't lose that traditional 4D-5D shake lick that is
critical to blues.



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:32 AM, JWilliam Thompson <landcommentary@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hello Matheus:
>
> I also play a lot of bluegrass. I have never tried a Powerbender. What is
> the advantage of Powerbender for playing it?
>
> Bill
>