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Harmonica Lessons: 12th Position Intermediate: Blues in 12th Position

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[MUSIC]
And now we have this

real juicy sixth as well.

[SOUND] Now, you can hear we can

get pretty bluesy in this key.

It's not just the Lydian mode.

So [SOUND] playing the Blues in F now,

is one of the things that
I love to do [SOUND].

You got that country Blues lick.

[SOUND].

And to get that you have to
have some control over that

third hole draw bend [SOUND].

It's all the way down [SOUND] to

the G sharp then up to the A [SOUND].

And then four blow [SOUND] four
draw [SOUND] five draw [SOUND].

And then you have that really cool
major third above it [SOUND].

And if you bend it down,
you got the minor third [SOUND].

So this is a really bluesy key [SOUND].

And you can get the flatted seventh,

up at the top [SOUND].

It's the eighth

hole blow

bend [SOUND].

Boy, that sounds, it sounds kinda
like a saxophone or something.

People always say, that doesn't sound
like a harmonica, because they're

not use to hearing something so bluesy
that's not [SOUND] that's a harmonica.

But [SOUND] that doesn't
sound like a harmonica.

Well, I think it sounds like a harmonica,
but

it sounds like a harmonica that's
been turned on its end a little bit

because we're getting,
all the bends are in a different place.

We're bending the 6th [SOUND]
down to a flatted 6th [SOUND].

We're bending that minor third
to a major third [SOUND].

And then we're bending [SOUND].

And not only that, we can get what I
call the Albert King bend [SOUND].

That thing that Albert King always used
to do [SOUND], except he was left-handed,

played upside down.

But it's bending, and
he bent that whole thing.

I'm not really bending the whole thing,
but

I'm doing the illusion
that I'm bending it.

[SOUND] I'm starting at the top

of the third hole draw [SOUND].

And I'm moving over to the second
hole draw bend, and hitting the F,

so I'm bending from B to F,
except it's over two holes.

[SOUND] But it's so smooth that
it sounds like it's on one hole,

and it has the right arc.

It sounds like the guitar string
is dying down a little bit, and

then it's coming back down to earth.

So that's the only key
that I know on harmonica,

where you can get what I
call the Albert King bend.

So to me this is an extremely
bluesy key [SOUND].

And the sixth bend is down here [SOUND].

And you can do [SOUND] by

bending all the stations in

the third hole draw [SOUND].

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