Chords for Sandi Thom - Old Harp Lick Tutorial (Harmonica Lick Of The Week)

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_ [Bm] _ Good afternoon!
Good! _
It is me, Sandy Tom, and I'm here in my humble abode
with my daddiger, Centurion Harmonica.
Mm-hmm, it's lovely.
We are in the cave, Jake.
This is a favorite cave, my.
Today we're going to learn something of the old timey harmonica playing.
Because, you know, it's not just about the blues,
it's not just about being Bob Dylan,
it's also about being an old man sitting on a porch.
So, there's two little things I'm going to teach you.
They're pretty cool once you combine them.
It's also going to help you to get your coordination together,
because the hardest part about playing harmonica
is doing something that's kind of uncomfortable
with the blow-jaw, blow-jaw, blow-jaw.
Blow-draw.
_ _ So, this is what I'm going to teach you.
It goes like this. _ _ _ _
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_ So, it's kind of like a, you know,
Yee-haw!
type of harmonica, like, pretty cool.
So, we're starting off with the third hole.
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And we are bluing.
So, we start off, usually I band a note here.
This is where we're going to get into a little more technical.
We're going to band the third note.
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So, _ you've really got to be able to pull it in
and release it.
It's going to take some time for you to learn.
I really could not tell you.
There is no real method.
You just have to feel it.
[B] So_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
For more, it's like banding a note.
It's like banding a note on a guitar with a string.
You know, the harder, the higher you take it,
clearly the note rises.
So, _ with this, I would just say
that you need to really pull in the air.
The harder you pull in the air,
the more you're going to be able to band it.
The less you pull in the air, the less you're going to band it.
It's exactly the same if you're removing your finger on a fretboard.
So_
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If you pull it in really hard,
then you get that_
sound.
So, we're not going to do that, though.
We're going to_
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_ [Bm] _ You really have to learn how to add that bit.
It's key to this,
because otherwise we don't get the different notes.
So, we're going_ _ _ _
_ _ We're starting on the third hole.
This is where we kind of_
This is where most of these things come in.
You know, from last week,
we were concentrating on third and fourth holes.
So, we're bending the third hole.
_ _ [B] _ _ And then we're going to blow into the second.
We're going to draw on the first,
blow second, blow third.
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Now, my harmonica has got a little bit of a loose reed
on the first hole here.
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It's got a little bit of a strange noise going on it.
Just now, we'll_
It's like the TV.
Just kick it.
Fine.
Ah. _ _ _
[G] And it's this part,
the last two notes that get you_
Your mind gets_
It's like the rub your heli and pat your belly.
Heli, belly, heli.
Rub your he, pat your belly.
So, it's that part that gets you
because you don't_
You don't essentially do something like that.
So, you're going to go blow, blow, draw, blow.
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_ See, now even I can mess it up.
Ha ha, because I'm so amazing.
Grrr.
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So_
You're messing with my head now.
So, when we speed it up a little bit,
obviously, it's got more sort of fluidity. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] And then the other part is the_ _ _
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_ [Bm] _ With this, we're [B] going_ _ _ _
_ _ _ One, two, three, four, five, six hole.
Sorry, [Bm] fifth hole.
And we're going to be [B] going_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Do, do, do, do. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And then the last one, we're going to be drawing in again.
So, this is where we're kind of building up
a little bit more to the higher end of the spectrum.
_ I would say try and learn this stuff by ear
because it's not like you're going to really sit there.
People don't read charts when they're playing the harp.
I think it's just once you get the sort of basic idea
of that you're going to blow and you're going to draw.
I think once you get that down,
you're going to be able to really_
_ _ You're going to just hear it really at that point.
You're just going to play it by ear.
_ So, let's try this whole thing.
Get your foot going.
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[Bm] _ _ It's pretty cool.
_ Obviously, it's more of something that you play
with somebody else accompanying you.
But it's cool.
It's very old-timey.
It's very kind of New Orleans and old school.
_ I dig it.
It's something you should add to your repertoire.
So, let's play it out, boys and girls.
Yeehaw! _ _ _ _
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