Harmonicas?

mcblink said:
And now I'm watching a movie called Bone Tomahawk and it's about a bunch of cannibals in the old west.
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I've seen that movie, cave-dwelling cannibals, well worth a watch.
I'm no help with playing harp, though a buddy that plays them extremely well did years ago learn me how to bend notes on them, both breathing in & out.
Enjoy the movie. Cheers
 
Pretty freaky, isn't it. IIRC, Kurt Russell plays the sheriff (or is it marshall). Either way, he plays it well. Been a while since I saw that movie, might have to watch it again sometime soon since we're almost on house arrest at the moment with this damn virus poop thing. Cheers
 
Just read The U.S. might be the next Pandemic Epicentre according to the World Health Organization.. Stay inside as much as you can, when you go out for food, stay 6 feet distance from any person near you.:blink:o_O
 
I've got one, I haven't picked it up for ages. I can play The Wizard on it (not very well), that's about it.

This is how you play The Wizard, pretty much. Ozzy never played the full song on it, of course ... he just added in parts here and there instead of following Tony's guitar the whole way. I only ever tried playing the bits that Ozzy actually plays on the song.

You need a D harmonica.


 
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Note bending is done with draws. You kind of do the shorter notes with exhales, I never really 'blew' them, I just let the air out of my lungs with a bit of force through the mouth. Playing songs is different from scales. It's kind of like working out upstrokes and downstrokes with a pick, they sound different
 
Dave Sloven said:
Note bending is done with draws. You kind of do the shorter notes with exhales, I never really 'blew' them, I just let the air out of my lungs with a bit of force through the mouth. Playing songs is different from scales. It's kind of like working out upstrokes and downstrokes with a pick, they sound different
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I can hear the bendy sound during the draw, depending on how much vacuum I apply lol

I don't even have the technique down. In order to play that scale, I have to cover the holes on either side of the hole I want with my fingers, and then blow/suck haha!

This conversation is beginning to sound very, umm.....well...
 
My Dad used to call them a "mouth organ"

My Dad was a lot of fun in his day.

He also used to ask our keys player if he ever had tulips (two lips) on his organ. Everytime he saw him. For many years after we were in a band.
 
Dave Sloven said:
Note bending is done with draws. You kind of do the shorter notes with exhales, I never really 'blew' them, I just let the air out of my lungs with a bit of force through the mouth. Playing songs is different from scales. It's kind of like working out upstrokes and downstrokes with a pick, they sound different
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You can bend notes blowing too. As I said earlier in the thread, bending notes is about the only thing I learned on harp, showed how by a buddy who is an exceptional harp player. Bending when drawing in, you are bending the note down. Bending when blowing out, you are bending the note up.
I'll try to explain "how" to do (this'll probably be funny).
Ok, to bend a note down (draw), you drop the floor of you mouth while simultaneously moving the base of your tongue "back" & "down" towards your throat.
To bend a note up (blow) you do the opposite of the above. Raise the floor of your mouth towards the top or roof of your mouth while simultaneously moving the base of your tongue forward towards your mouth (basically make the cavity inside your mouth small & all crammed up towards the harp).
This is basically how it was explained to me, after he had first showed me how to use either my tongue tip or small lip aperture to play single notes. Didn't take long to learn to bend notes both ways, & I'm no harp player. Cheers
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I should have mentioned earlier (though I think most would realise anyway) that to effect the bend in either direction, you start playing the note normally before doing the "mouth manipulations" to bend the note. Cheers
 
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Man that Survivorman guy (what's his name again??) can play a mean harp!

Sitting around watching Survivorman, with Les Stroud as....uhh...Survivorman....and sometimes they'll have cutscenes of him playing his harmonica before he crashes out or whatever, and he's really quite good!

Interesting show too, if you've never seen it
 
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