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Harmonica Lessons: "Stop Time Blues" by Howard Levy

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[MUSIC]
This piece is in D flat and

I take advantage of the structure of

the harmonica to go
[MUSIC]

basically it's playing the D flat

arpeggio.

[MUSIC]
And the C arpeggio.

[MUSIC]
And

then I also go.

[MUSIC]
That's bending down using the,

stretching up the fourth hole overblow.

[MUSIC]
And also, stretching up the sixth hole

overblow to get that
flatted seventh of D flat,

which is a B natural from the B flat.

[MUSIC]
And I'm using some old Jelly Roll Morton

changes that goes one, three, six, two,

five, one at the end of the blues.

This is some old New Orleans stuff.

Mixed in with just regular blues changes,
okay?

So I'm just gonna play it again.

Maybe talk a little while I play.

>> One, two, one, two, three, four.

[MUSIC]
That's

the four overblow.

[MUSIC]

That's a

diminished

arpeggio.

[MUSIC]
So

I tried to

outline some

of the chords

for you,

I missed one

of the diminished

chords, I

played it

early, but

I just wanted

you to hear.

[MUSIC]
That's a diminished seventh arpeggio, and

then it went one
[MUSIC]

three

[MUSIC]

which is an F, and then the sixth,

[MUSIC]

which is a B flat.

And then the two chord,
which is an E flat.

[MUSIC]
And then the five chord,

which is an A flat.

[MUSIC]
So this is trying to get comfortable

in a key that's pretty far from
C although it's very close to C.

It's as far and
as close as you can get, and

if you practice this tune you'll
get surprisingly comfortable.

Just don't try to do anything too fancy,
but take advantage of what the harmonica

can give you here, which is why I
wrote this tune in the style I wrote.

And if you wanna send me in performances
of this tune, please feel free, okay?

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