8 Tips For Bending On Harmonica - Beginner Harmonica Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- This week's harmonica lesson will show you 8 tips to help you get started bending on the harmonica. You will need a harmonica in the key of C.
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0:11 8 Tips For Bending on Harmonica
1:23 Tilt Bend
2:36 Vocalize "EEE-000"
3:57 Strong Muscular Tongue
4:35 Don't Pull Too Far Back and Listen to What You Are Doing
6:03 Keep the Harmonica Tipped Up
7:04 Don't Play Harder
7:53 Don't Move Your Mouth
8:44 Keep Tongue Pointing Forward
10:38 Click in Description For Bending Checklist
10:56 Easy 12 Bar Blues Course - Now Enrolling
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I've learned some pretty technical things on guitar,bass and drums, but this is the most frustrating musical technique I've ever tried!! 😆
Agreed!!!😅😅
100% I’ve been trying to bend for so long now and just can’t get it
Joe Deverell-Smith Don’t give up!!! I got it and you will too!
Totally agree! Reminds me of when I taught myself to whistle loudly with my fingers. Weeks and weeks and weeks of failure. But I eventually got it. I guess that's what keeps me going.
Trying to incorporate bends in the blues scale.... my poor neighbors lol. It's like a chromatic squeaky toy. Over n over and over 😯
Man, you're my hero. My mom gave me a harmonica for my birthday when I was like 14 or so. Since then I've tried to bend. That's more then 10 years ago, I learned playing piano, guitar, bass and mandolin during that time but didn't manage to do that f*ing bend on my harmonica - until I watched your video yesterday. Turns out: I held that thing wrong for 10 years - tip 5 was the missing hint for me. You're the only one I've seen who actually shows that. Plus the eee-ooo and the last tip helped a lot. Thanks again 1000 times!
That's fantastic, took too long but I am so glad you picked the harp again! :-)
Me too! Bending for the first time since i bought this years ago.
@@TomlinHarmonica I still strugling with this bending technics.. OMG, so hard for me..
I use my only cheap china's harp.. Do you think I use the wrong harp? And should I pick the good one?
@@andrestp from my experience from bending you probably should invest a couple more dollars for a good beginners harp that is easy to play and to bend with like a hohner special 20
@@andrestp cheap harps are not a good way to start learning harmonicas. They usually have a really bad tone, and most of them are really leaky so are significantly harder to play than decent harmonicas. Bending would almost be impossible on those harps. Anyone would recommend a semi-decent harp over a cheap one.
This is crazy. I have been playing harmonica for about a week (total playing time maybe 1-2 hours), and have been focusing on bends because I know how hard it can be, and I never understood how it's done.
Within 10 minutes of trying this stuff I had fairly consistently bent holes 1 through 6.
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Thank you Tomlin!
water fire earth air these four nations once lived in harmony then everything changed when the avatar learned the harmonica.
Actually I am imagining the draw bend as some kind of airbending and it helps controlling the air flow...
I need to harmonbend as well
Me too
That's mad, I got it pretty much straight away! Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get it soon!
The 'ee' 'oo' technique is what got it for me, as a guitarist I find it weird that the note bends down though!
just incredible, hundres of videos that ended up being useless, but this video, this man, bro i fucking love you never gonna forget
This one lesson gave me my first 2 draw bend. 👍😎
I’ve learned so so much from this lad in such a short time literally only just stumbled upon him today and after only two hours of practice I’ve learned more from him than I’ve learned in months paying rubbish teachers . Thanks
I gave up on bending and the harmonica because i could never preform a bend. this video has helped me break that curse.
100% percent difference in the tilt of the harmonica!! great tip
hey Tomlin, i am 71 years old and been playing harmonica badly for a decade, never could bend but always found your tips the most helpful of all the millions online and then yesterday, watching you and, on your recommendation, a bit of Gussow...BAM! i got the 2 draw bend. still takes work but i feel for the first time i'm on my way. at my age, gotta hurry!
Hi there! Glad you were able to finally work that out! It's never too late to learn new things :-)
Great video Tomlin thanks for your advise!
Most clear explanations about bending. Thanks a lot
Thank you!
Excellent!! Thank you, Tomlin.
Wow, this is the only video that helped me pick up bending. The first tip to literally tilt your harmonica is perfect since it provided me with a reference tone. Thumbs up!
I've been trying to do the bending so hard since so long and this is the first video that really really helped me.
I could do my first bending... thanks a lot you are the best
Great tips! Thank you!
Helpful, well done video!
Excellent lesson! Many Thanks
Thank you Tomlin. I have owned a harp (albeit a cheap one) for most of my life. I currently own a Hohner Big River and a Hohner Super Chromonica, both in the key of C, however I just ordered a Special 20 to hopefully make my bending easier. I've never really committed to learning to play, but in the tinkering I have done in the past 40 years I have always struggled with getting a consistent, on key bend. I have have owned books & watched videos attempting to explain it till I'm ready to throw the harp into the ocean. This is the first time someone has walked me through the nuances, step by step, that made a meaningful difference. After just one viewing my bends are more solid and within a few minutes of practicing your tips there is a significant improvement. This just might be the breakthrough I needed to take my playing seriously.
Big help to me. Excellent video.
Brilliant thanks!
I've been playing the harp for a few months now on and off, happy with my progression, could not bend for the life of me. I installed one of those tuner apps on my phone that detect which harp note is being played and had it next to my laptop while watching this video, never once getting the 4 draw bend button to light up on the app. I practiced, rewatched this video, paused, repeat process for a good 45 minutes and all of a sudden with the culmination of all the tips I got the -4'! I was so happy I nearly cheered out loud! Now I'm just working on getting it every single time and getting it into the muscle memory, like learning how to play single clean notes. Thanks so much Tomlin!
That is awesome to hear! So pleased for you and well done for persevering and working through it :-)
which app are u using`?
Mr Trung which app?
What app??
What app?
Your instruction and tips are fantastic - thanks!
You are a great teacher. Thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos.
I really can't thank you enough for this. I was struggling with the whole step/whole and a half step bend, and your advice on not blowing too hard and mouth movements helped me nail it after so freaking long.
Aw thank you Karthik!
These areTHE best harmonica lessons I've ever come across!
Great lesson. Thanhks!
Great teacher!
Great teacher,very clear
Dude, I have being trying this for weeks based on different ways on internet. None of them works for me. But with your methods, I get it in 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
incredible, thank you !
That is very clear and well explained and has helped me a lot -thanks Tomlin!
One of the Best Harmonica video tutorial .NICE
Thanks Tomlin
Utterly brilliant, effective and simple. Thank you!
I train for a living, and you are a great instructor. Bravo. Thank you for this!
I’ve tried so hard to get it and I practiced everyday to no avail but watching this video helped me get it straight away. Awesome!!!
Thank you so very much! Great tips!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Literally your first tip helped me bend so much easier. I know covering the hole a bit had something to do with it but this was just such an obvious method that works so good. Gonna keep watching the rest but thank you so much.
wow this helped me so much! i feel like its such a fine movement in the beginning that starts to become clearer and clearer once you get the hang of it the first time and keep practicing. thanks a lot!
Thanks Tom. Been looking for your advice..
Thanks for the tips!! That helped a lot
I got it! Once I was able to get a tiny bit of a bend, it was just like you said in #4- slow controlled movements with a strong tongue to find the pitch. If I try to go too fast I lose it, but I've played enough wind instruments to know it's all just developing the muscle memory from here.
very helpful; good presentation
Your videos are perfect thank you, you make everything easy to understand
Thank you for this video! I’m new to the harmonica and struggled to bend notes and your video is the best one out there for learning how to do it.
Thank you very much, you explain wonderful
Your lesson has helped me so much. You answered all my questions on technique need immediately!!! Thank you!!!👏👏👏👏
Great lesson Tomlin, thanks
Helped a lot... Thanks..
Holy crap! I’ve been noodling on the harmonica for about 15 years (very casually), but never been able to bend notes. I didn’t even make it to the end of this video before I actually managed to bend notes! Seriously - I started learning literally 12 minuters ago and now I bend without much fail! Superb, my man!
That's fantastic news Psykel! Let me know if I can help you further with anything. :-)
Tomlin Leckie Thanks! Can you help me pick up girls?
Tomlin Leckie Never mind. You taught me how to bend tones on the harmonica, so the girls will be coming!
Awesome!
Thank you! You have the Best harmonica lessons!!! Best and easy explanation and your smiling face makes me learn with joy!
THANK YOU! this is my first day with harmonica and I nailed the single note method but watched 5 other videos on how to bend but finally after watching yours I got it! I play the tin whistle and ocarina but this is a whole different beast. Awesome tips.
Number 5 was the only thing I needed, I cannot thank you enough 😭❤️
Can you actually bend better now?
@@eduardojara6955 yeah! But it took some time tbh hahaha
Time
Very good, very clear, well articulated and you cover what so many others do not. Been trying to play for years. Did a couple of your lessons and sorted some bad habits in 5 minutes
Yes!! You're such an awesome teacher!!! I got it!!
This is the video that did it for me. Many thanks!
Awesome news :-)
I like the EEE...OOO method the best. It was the first method I learned and have never changed.
Whatever works for you :-)
Very good tips! Thanks
Glad you liked them John!
I paused when instructed each time until I achieved an audible difference in tonality. I worked each section thoroughly and changed from slight bend to a clear and deep sustain. While trying to develop proper technique, I developed incorrect techniques simultaneously. Then upon resuming video each time, he explains precisely how to correct such errors as if he was present. By the end of this video (30 mins for me) I was bending smoothly and deeply, half or full! Complete NOOB here, credit due to this MASTERFUL TEACHER! Just started yesterday on your beginner 12 bar blues. Thank You. HOHNER BIG RIVER HARP "C"
+Duke Dixon dude! This is awesome to hear - I'm so pleased. Keep up the good work!
you're gifted, my friend
Hows you playing now I'm new to Harp got seydel 1847 wood and it's a beauty
Tomlin Leckie, how much does the difficulty increase when one goes to steel reeds? I have the basic 5-harp Hohner Roadhouse Blues pack (essentially Chinese crap), and my thought is to replace those with quality harps as I blow them out. But my need right now is for an F harp, as I play ukulele and 75% of the songs I play are in the key of C. Rather than buying another piece of junk, I thought I would get a Seydel, but it will have steel reeds.
ho did you find the toung position ?? 🤔
excellent, that helped alot! thanks
Excellent teacher!
Thank you Walter :-)
very helpful.. Thanks
SUPERB EXAPLAINATION , THANK YOU FOR VALUABLE TRIC👌
Just went through the tips in this video again to improve my Bending, really helped. Great tips and they all work when applied probably. Thank you Tomlin 👏👏👏👏👏✅
Tip 2 and 5 did it for me. Good video.
Tomlin, of all the lessons on the Internet yours, are the best
This is so useful dude thanks
Omg thank you sir!!! U are a hero!! Waiting the next video!
your videos are so helpful.
Been struggling with bending, worked through your tips. The first one told be what I was aiming for, tip 5 was a game changer. I can now bend, so grateful.
It works! Thank's for that!
Thank you so much, Tomlin! I'm Brazilian and i really like your guidelines. Good work, my friend. Thanks! Sérgio.
Picked up my first harmonica today ! Your a very good teacher I got this almost instantly! The eeee o thing really helped
Thanks from Turkey!
You taught me something on the first lesson. Thanks very much.
Awesome tips. Watched a lot of videos before this one. The eeeoooeee tip helped me nail it!
What a great teacher! I've been trying to learn bending for months, and apparently I just need to watch this video to learn it!
Excellent Israel!
6 was what I needed to know! thanks
Yes...I got you...❤
Super cool thank you brother
Watched several of these from other instructors - yours made the most sense to me, and I got my first 4-hole true bend....THANKS!!
Just started to play. Great lesson Tomlin, thank you!
Hello Mr. Leckie. I'm a retired research scientist trying to help overcome the kind of frustrations I experienced due to the incomplete comprehension of bending in all harmonica instruction I've seen. Yours is the best bending instruction I've seen (I've seen quite a bit), but its partial and doesn't penetrate to the essential concepts as well as it would if it had a little more science foundation. Therefore, it is less helpful than it could be, by a fair amount. The physics and mathematics of bending have been known for about 150 years, and the principles are in very common use (for example, even by motorcycle engineers, from whom I recently learned it). Judging from current harmonica instruction, harmonica players have never encountered this knowledge (to my amazement). The basis for bending is not exceedingly simple, and it's easy for me to explain why its been hard to teach and learn, but it can be made pretty simple to teach and learn once you know all the principles and figured out the shortcuts (no math, suitable for children, etc). You are close to this goal in your instruction, but not there, and are missing a few critical elements. In my experience, with mild tolerance for science so that a harmonica player can understand what they are doing and why, all draw bends in all holes of diatonic harmonicas can be learned in less than an hour immediately after learning to play single notes. Only slight pitch refinement then remains. Blow bends use the same principles but are considerably harder to perfect, for reasons also easy for me to explain. The same principles used for bending can also be used to expand the kinds of harmonica sounds you can make in other interesting ways. I can make my own video of instructions, and might if I have to, but you are a person of eminence in the field and your help would ease the process of helping develop instruction. Let me know if you are interested in helping out. If not, I will probably proceed with the making and posting of my own clumsy video where i will feel like a science dork and have to endure a lot of 'artistic" rejection. Sorry for sounding arrogant, but I play guitar and piano also, and instruction for guitar and piano is so much better because you can play all the notes immediately. Maybe for that reason i have come feel much of the beginner harmonica instruction I've seen spends far too much time too far away from musical competence and is needlessly frustrating and unattractive. As I said at the beginning, I just want to help harmonica players out. I'm way too old and settled to be doing this to seek out fame or income.
Very good!! thanks
Cheers Daniel :-)
For anyone who may stumble onto this, I am new to the harmonica, and not real qualified to be giving advice, but here's what gave me my first bend, just last night-- while drawing the note in, "swallow" it !
That seems to create the proper configuration of the tongue, etc. It's a little hard to make yourself do the swallowing move while drawing the note in, but as soon as you start it, boom-- there's that bend!
Great lesson as usual! This very useful for who want to start with bendings...
Great tutorial. What I recently discovered is that no matter which harmonica key and which hole you're playing, you get a perfect bend when the sound of the airflow between your tongue and your palate matches the pitch of the bent note. Once you get that, bending becomes a natural thing to do. Keep up the good work!
Tommy Harmonika huh
I'm trying to grasp how to get the pitch of the note. 🙄
Thank you this video helped alot
Tip #4!! It changed my technique and now I can bend note on any hole! Great vid.
thank you！
Wow, that is really good! Thank you. I love how you teach! You make learning easy.
Eres muy claro para explicar, ahora es solo practicar, this lesson is superb! thanks.
Gracias Oeste :-)
good vid thanx
The best explanation of how to bend. Thank you!
Thank you so much for helping us novices. I inherited my Dad's Hohner harmonica (he was 93) so quite an old one and loving getting to use it. Just working on the bends now :0)
Your techniques are amazing. I have been able to get both blow bends and draw bends quickly after watching your videos, which I was struggling with when following other channels.
thank you so much for this! finally played my first draw bend after this video and it sounds so cool. god bless you and keep you safe
That's a great moment - so glad you hit one!
Ive watched a lot of bending videos and this is the first that helped a lot!! Thanks!