Chords for Easy Riff That Can Make You A Smoother More Fluid Player

_ _ _ Okay, I'm going to teach you a basic riff.
I call it the slider down riff and I've got a C harmonica here _ and
It's a really good practice for learning to move the harmonica
smoothly _ that's important and
Also to reverse your breath go to draw to blow and draw to blow and to do that
Smoothly, so this little riff here's the way it [B] sounds
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [C] _
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_ _ So
The way I move my harp well if you look you can see my jaw is going back and forth
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
Yeah, just [Gb] you're kind of a yeah _
_ See how [B] that works for you.
_ I
_ _ _ do that along I think with a combination of
Moving the harmonic and not across my lip, but like that on my lip _
_ dragging my lip drags with it so _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [C] _ [Bm] You
_ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Now right now I'm doing a pucker or lip block on the shore, [B] but if I tongue block
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] I know that the way I'm moving the harmonica is just a little bit [B] different
_ [C] _ You _ _ _ _ can hear me.
I'm lifting my tongue up that I can lift it a lot more _ _ _
[G] Doing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ some tongue slaps along the way _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _
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Okay, now the draw blow mechanics are that we start on five [D] draw
_ Okay, _ I'm gonna slide to four draw and then back to the five draw
Then _ _ _ _ _ [E] I'm gonna do the same thing on the blow _ _
_ _ _ [N] Then drop down and do it on the four [Bm] draw _ _ on _ _
[C] the four blow to the three blow _ _ _ then
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Bb] Three draw to draw to ender
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] So that's five to four to [Bb] five _ now _
_ [Db] do the same thing on the exhale _ _
_ _ _ _ Now from four to three [Bm] _ same _ _ _ _
_ [A] thing on the [C] exhale _ then _ [B] _ three draw to two drop
[G] _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [E] Now _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ as I keep working on this and
Working on my on my tongue blocking because I'm better at puckering than I'm a tongue blocking
I'm trying to get into just moving my tongue and that's all
_ _ For the for the first part of it
_ _ So _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ learning to do it in all these different ways along with giving me a pretty neat lick
Especially because you can change the timing of it and the way it feels it's helping me
_ _ [Ab] _ move more smoothly [B] _ and
It's it's a very good thing to practice _ now you can do it in a 12 bar here it is this is like the one chord
_ [C] Now [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [C] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'll start it at the six blow
_ [Em] six blow to five blow
_ _ then [B] five to four
_ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ One _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ chord _ [F] now _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ do it from the six blow for the four chord [B] _ [C] now _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ come to the [B] turnaround
_ [C] _ [Bm] Yeah
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_ [G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ So now I'll put this 12 bar [B] together _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ So [Bm] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ again played slowly _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[B] _ _ One way to work on is just get those first three notes
_ _ Don't take some time some effort to get it.
So it's smooth.
So it's not
_ But _ so it's just like dad.
I _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Don't give you a good chances to practice swiveling back and forth between the five and the four _ _ _ _ _
_ Then _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ on the five blow to four blow
_ _ _ _ [B] Okay, _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
so that's enough on this little lick have fun with it
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