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First, it is important to know that no one separate, "blues" harmonica instrument - "blues harmonica" is instead a style of play the harmonica. Blues harmonica is usually played on the large 10-hole diatonic harmonica.
Harmonicas were invented in Germany in the 1800s and were at the time were primarily used to "play uncle-pa-pa" or classical music or folk tunes of the time and that area. The major diatonic harmonica really not have many tuning ever since.
That does not mean you have to folk, classical, or uncle play-pa-pa music on the diatonic harmonica, it just means that you play in a different style, and with a few different techniques to get blues harmonica sound.
The first to be made to play the blues harmonica blues harmonica style and sound to get, is not to play with the built-in blow-oriented tuning of the diatonic harmonica.
Instead what do you play in what is called second, or "cross harp".
Second play, your root note for the harmonica is the # 2 to draw on the harmonica ( "Pull" means inhaling in language harmonica), not the # 1 hit (which is the standard folk, classical, oom-pa-pa position).
The second position is use of the DRAW CHORD which was built in the first four holes of the diatonic harmonica, which is a seventh chord - chords are extremely important for blues music.
So now you have a new course for your harmonica playing: BLOW-oriented away from the style of the first position, the DRAW-oriented of the 2nd position of the tonic used # 2 drawing, the carrot or agreement you can also say on the diatonic harmonica.
By starting at the # 2 draw - what you have is a different scale that can benefit from the harmonica - Technically it is a minor pentatonic scale.
However, this particular pentatonic scale notes flatted or "blue" in the notes to get that "bluesy" sound, and is often the specialized scale blues scale. To flatted "blue" notes in the blues harmonica style is proficient in the necessary a technique called note bending "on the harmonica.
Bending a note on the harmonica is really creating a note that is not built into the harmonica - it's almost a magical thing. The harmonica is the air flowing through a brass reed is riveted into a slot. The harmonica is a blow reed and a draw reed in the top right each slot. When the harmonica is mounted, you do not see the slots, but just know that these reeds, 1 hit and 1 draw in the same hole, one above the other.
You have 10 holes in the typical major diatonic harmonica, and 10 stroke and 10 draw notes, so you have twenty built-in notes.
Can bend notes, you get significantly more notes, and more often than not this is the bent notes that give the harmonica its "soul" and its "very" vocal "sound.
How to bend a note is quite a study in itself, but the main thing you do bend a note while changing the pressure, while the air flows over the reeds, and In almost all cases will draw on a note.
First bending notes, select one of the holes harmonica that is usually one of the easier to bend notes, the # 2 draw.
First you need a good note technique. That is, proceed with only one hole to play in a different time without leaking holes in their sound.
Next - pull in the # 2 line with that clear single note relaxed style, so you can hear that single note sound to hear, and imagine that you are articulate the vowel "E", while drawing on the # 2 to draw.
Three: Breathe out, so you get a lot of air to work with the # 2 to draw and you draw in saying "E", without anything else in your mouth, the change in vowel articulation "OOO" or "AAAH".
What this ultimately will do will be to change the air pressure in the slot and the purchaser will cause reed to vibrate at a different speed, and the reeds will be "bent" down.This enter your bent note or "blue" note.
Harmonicas come in many different keys: the higher the pitch of harmonica, the shorter the reed. The shorter the reed, the harder it is to bend the note, at least until you get used to it. So start with at least a midrange harmonica, as the key of C, or go to a lower pitch A key like a harmonica or even lower, a G harmonica, practice bending notes.
The actual bending technology will be the same for all keys, but you will find it easier to learn the technique first consider the lower pitch harmonica.
So those are the main elements of how to play blues harmonica:
1. Play in the 2nd position or cross harp "style
2. Playing in a pentatonic blues scale
3. The "missing" blue notes of the scale using the technique of bending.
Blues harmonica technique is the root of almost all other harmonica styles, so whether you are a blues fan or not, it is a great place to start learning fun techniques on the harmonica.
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Hohner XB-40 Extreme Bending Harmonica Key of G $133.99 The Hohner XB-40 Extreme Bending Harmonica was designed by Hohner USA's own Rick Epping and with a 40 reed system that gives harp players complete bending freedom with overdraws and overblows in all 10 holes. Precision engineered and manufactured under the highest quality standards, the Hohner XB-40's revolutionary design permits a level of expression and note bending capability never before possible on any harmonica. On a regular 10-hole diatonic, or Marine Band type harmonica, the standard blues note bending technique involves an interaction between 2 reeds, one blow and one draw. On this style harmonica, only the higher pitched of the 2 notes from any given reed cell can be bent and then only to a point somewhat above that of the lower-pitched reed. The Hohner XB-40 overcomes this limitation by incorporating an additional set of reeds, tuned so that all twenty of the harmonica's notes can be bent using the standard blues harp bending technique. Using a system of patented valve chambers, the auxiliary reeds come into play only during note bending. The Hohner XB-40 is tuned so that every note can be bent a whole tone, with an additional semitone bend on the 3-draw to complete the chromatic scale in the first octave.Plastic comb40 reedsBrass reedplates (.9mm)Length: 12.3cm (approx. 5") |
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Hohner XB-40 Extreme Bending Harmonica Key of F# $133.99 The Hohner XB-40 Extreme Bending Harmonica was designed by Hohner USA's own Rick Epping and with a 40 reed system that gives harp players complete bending freedom with overdraws and overblows in all 10 holes. Precision engineered and manufactured under the highest quality standards, the Hohner XB-40's revolutionary design permits a level of expression and note bending capability never before possible on any harmonica. On a regular 10-hole diatonic, or Marine Band type harmonica, the standard blues note bending technique involves an interaction between 2 reeds, one blow and one draw. On this style harmonica, only the higher pitched of the 2 notes from any given reed cell can be bent and then only to a point somewhat above that of the lower-pitched reed. The Hohner XB-40 overcomes this limitation by incorporating an additional set of reeds, tuned so that all twenty of the harmonica's notes can be bent using the standard blues harp bending technique. Using a system of patented valve chambers, the auxiliary reeds come into play only during note bending. The Hohner XB-40 is tuned so that every note can be bent a whole tone, with an additional semitone bend on the 3-draw to complete the chromatic scale in the first octave.Plastic comb40 reedsBrass reedplates (.9mm)Length: 12.3cm (approx. 5") |