3/10/2024 0 Comments Full blues harmonica tablatures![]() ![]() ![]() You’ve only just started, so give yourself a break. Any blues scale has aspects of both and a skilled player can apply second position to a minor blues, or third position to a major blues. While 2nd position blues harp is built on the major blues scale, 3rd position blues harp is built on the minor blues scale. Finally, leave draw three and seven alone for now. You could start and end an octave lower or higher, and this is important, but it’s going to overload you at the moment. While 2nd position playing starts and ends in draw two, 3rd starts and ends in draw four. Occasionally you’ll hear mention of the Dorian Mode and Circle of Fifths add these to your to do list, but don’t let them distract you just yet. Occasionally it’s called double-cross or slant harp. Every good blues harp player should be able to play blues in 3rd position. So here’s everything you need to know about 3rd position in three paragraphs. William Clarke, Charlie Musselwhite, Gary Primich and George Harmonica Smith … They’re all at it! What’s going on? Third position, that’s what. And Sugar Blue’s v ersion of Help Me sounds way more more complex than Sonny Boy II’s original. On another track, a dud e starts blowing chromatic for heaven’s sake. Meanwhile we’re pilfering licks and watching all the 5 minute ‘how to’ harp videos we can, when we come across a Little Walter track called Thunderbird and we can’t work it all out. Michael done rowed our boat ashore.Īnd now we’re thinking The band, the band ! Time to surf eBay for a Bassman amp, a bullet mic and more cheap harps in different keys. We are officially a ber-looz brother… or sister. We tilt our shades and push back the hat. Three spins of the included compact disc digital audio, a few minutes in front of YouTube and a sip of JD later, our two hole bend is nailed. ![]() Tearing open our package, we skip When The Saints, Amazing Grace and Camptown Races and zero in on part two Blues Cross Harp. Then we invest our accumulated swag in a used copy of Play Like Walter in Ten Minutes, while bidding on ebay for a second hand entry level harp with a fancy name like Sonny Boy’s Special or Blues Howler. We raid the wardrobe, car glove compartment and every drawer for loose change, and then plunder the sofa. ![]()
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