mrjoeyman
36 posts
Feb 10, 2018
1:48 AM
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If you want to hear it click HERE then click on the time link in my comment that I left as (mrjoeyman).
It will take you right to the spot so you can hear the low bending I spoke of in the subject of this post. The whole video is awesome but that part really jumped out at me. What do you think?
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MindTheGap
2502 posts
Feb 10, 2018
3:04 AM
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mrjoeyman - Welcome to 3rd position!!!
This kind of bending is bread and butter in that position. And don't think it's just for minor-key melodies, if you have good bending skills you can play major too.
For even deeper bends look at the phrase starting 1m8s - using the 1'.
Rich pickings for blues in 3rd, even though most blue harp is in 2nd. Get stuck in :)
Last Edited by MindTheGap on Feb 10, 2018 3:07 AM
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SuperBee
5257 posts
Feb 10, 2018
2:52 PM
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Yes, pretty typical 3rd position note choices
For a primer on this approach to 3rd position, George Smith’s ‘Telephone Blues’ is a classic. Very scale based and minor, using the 3 triple bend (3 semitones or half steps) and its equivalent an octave higher in 6 draw bend.
It’s not too difficult to learn and provides a good grounding in the scale. Then you can work on riffing around as sfaira did in that number.
Another good one which Mark Hummel pointed me toward is James Cotton on ‘blues keep falling’ which is also known as ‘black night’ but hummel was pointing me to this particular record by Cotton to demonstrate how he uses a lick.
I’m personally soon gonna embark on learning jr Wells early 3rd position ‘please throw this poor dog a bone’ which I’ve been playing in second. I’m gonna take my original 2nd position version and put some words with it, but I don’t want to discard the jr song, so I’ll learn the way he does it and just have an extra song
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