Modern Blues Harmonica - Third Position 2 (Gussow.076)
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- Second in a series. Here's the quick-and-dirty way to play third position harp: not just by warbling on holes 4-10 draw, but by leveraging the blues licks you ALREADY know, moving them up two holes and making small adjustments. This video is HOT! (Well, Gussow is overheated.)
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Adam, this is so awesome what you do here. I have been watching your vids, for over a year - been playing for ~2 yrs. At first, i just watched - couldn't even pull a 2 draw then. Now I have my harp in hand and am really using this. I've also been learning tons from your MBH lessons. Been unemp. for ~ 1 yr and all I can do is get one lesson a month. It really lightens the load. Thanks!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos Adam!
awesome licks. Been suckin cross harp for a few years and never thought i needed anything above second position. Thanks for the quick tips... sounds great!
Hardest workin' man in blues harp teaching! Adam, you deserve that ice cold beer. Thank you so much for your dedication.
Hey Adam, your harp lessons are really helpfull + easy to understand, so thankyou for posting them...Ive finally decided to learn as much as possible on diatonic harps + even though its early days i'm loving it...Big thanks from the UK :-)
Yeah, liked that way you wrapped it up with that little jam at the end. It put it all together. I'll be working on 3rd pos. next.
Thanks, LCF. I appreciate not just your good thoughts, but your willingness to put them out there in cyberspace. We're all trying to be the best we can be; I'm glad to help out my harp playing brothers & sisters.
Junior Doughty is a great guy, with the beatest car I've ever seen--an old 70s station wagon with destroyed paint, as I recall. Great guy. Great website.
Just wanted to say.... thanks I have just recently started playing harmonica... although I had a C harp for some time... but you gave me the drive... I am running up and down you r videos making sure I get every little tip for the last month... you are a wonderful person and that also brings me back to your videos to get more and more... that's pretty much it... I am going outside to practice my third position playing :-) 10X again...
On the song "Have Mercy", Big Walter and Carey Bell demonstrate these principles perfectly, harp key C, song key D. Walter wails on the 6 and chugs down on the 4, Carey slides aaround the top of the Harp. Walter's "Skip it" is a solo version of the same thing.
tus vídeos me ayudan muchísimo! gracias!! saludos desde Buenos Aires...
Man what a pleasure to enrich the ol' harp experience with well put, no ego lessons from a pro, i like to play third in the second part of a solo for Black magic woman, the fake minor feel gives it a real dynamic!
Adam you dedication is amazing, hope you got that cool one...gee...just watching you sweat has me heading for a cool one.....cheers
adam, thanks for giving the insights to 3rd position away. i sort of discovered it trying to decipher jason's "marmoset:baked potato" song. and this lesson helped solidify my understanding of the blow/bend/draw for each hole. this is a major breakthrough for me to get to the minor blues. aloha and thanks.
Man I appreciate the sweating you did! All your videos are very helpful! Everything you need to know from tweaking the reeds to blowing mean harp,! Your the man! Thank you a million times!
Darryl Chafe
That was really helpful, and just what I was looking for after getting my new A harp!
Awesome! Thanks again for sharing with the harping community!!! You're explanation on intervals was very helpful. Obviously, we must learn some music theory to progress to other positions...
THIS IS IMPORTANT!!! What you, Ronnie S, Jason R, Jon G, & others are doing to advance harp knowledge via the web will pay huge dividends down the road in establishing harp as a legitimate instrument.
Please keep the lessons coming!
-BB
Thanks for working so hard, Adam.
Man, you DO deserve that ice cold beer! That's some great third position playing! You said you shot that in Mississippi? I have been thinking about going there and check the jukejoints after reading stuff in the junior's jukejoint website (you can find it in google, it's still there). Maybe there's stuff to be learned there. But first I'll spend a good while working on your lessons... Great stuff, Adam!
@gusset08: It certainly IS the Dorian mode; that's how I've always thought about it. It's a minor mode that includes a major sixth, and the diminished fifth between the minor third and the major sixth is the so-called "devil's interval." But sure: Dorian mode, supplemented with the flat fifth, is fine. Root, second, minor third, fourth, flat fifth, fifth, major sixth, flat seventh, octave.
A most excellant and helpful lesson! Thanks. Cant wait for my products from your website to arrive!
66Rich66 Has a good point about writting those scales out. I have a pretty good idea from the notes i take on a lesson. Ricci has a video on it as well. I think i quick cheat sheet would be handy.
Thanks 4 the killer Tutorial Adam, I've learned from 1/2 a dozen of your Videos now, so I will go buy a copy of "Kick & Stomp" to support you back. Keep it coming, Josh Holliday in Orlando, FL.
Great lessons and also funny! Thanks!
Thanks heaps for this lesson, This has opened the door for me, Cheers!!!
@MrMomo06: I must not have ever uploaded a third video on this subject. Good point! On your second question: I assume you're asking about a two-note "octave" consisting of the 2 draw and the 5 draw? In second position, that's the root and the flat seventh: the skeleton of the dominant seventh chord. I guess you'd call it the dominant seventh chord--except that it's a double-stop, not a chord. (The 2345 draw is actually the dominant seventh chord.) So the answer is: I don't know.
We love you too Adam. 3rd position beauty,
I'm starting to get it
This is an incredibly helpful video
Thanks!
Because it's the place where my harp-playing buddies and I always used to trade licks, out in front of Dan Lynch, a blues bar in the East Village (NYC).
Love me some third position minor blues
Your sat there because your a crazy harmonica guy who is mad but very talented at the same time
Thanks again!!
I don't know why more people don't play the E harp. I think it has a killer tone and it just wales!
I like F too
Adam your just a badass. Next time your in my neck of the woods stop on by for some B.B.Q and beer.
Hey Adam, great videos and teaching style. Would it be easier to teach third position as the Dorian mode?
Where's that? I'm taking notes.
Hi Adam, I went looking for your third position bottom octave video. Did not find 'Third Position 3' video - do you have plans for this?
Also what is the correct name for a 7 note blues 'octave'?
Love your lessons.
Excelllllllent
A couple of months ago I uploaded a tab sheet ($2) entitled "Blues and Country Scales." There are also two video tutorials ($5 each), one on blues scales and one on country scales. modernbluesharmonica dot com ("the store")
You a Bad Dude
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I really like this lesson. I hope you got to cool off that day. Thanks man!!
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Ditto to all comments earlier.Thanks Adam.
nice playing man and thanks for the lesson!
word of wisdom however:
turn the car on and use the air-conditioning ;)
my dad always asks about your car, Adam... lol.
Great lesson... try the A/C next time
Thank you...turn the A/C on blues.
:)
he probably had somewhere to go
Adam you just saved my life. I think I'll be able to get through this song (ruclips.net/video/IDE9MC3jnl0/видео.html) at band practice now.