How Do You Bend Notes On Harmonica?
“On behalf of expertvillage.com I’m Eric Williams and I’m here to talk to you about beginning harmonica. Okay, on playing the harmonica the whole reason I got interested in playing harmonica was that I was really intrigued by it the way they would bend notes. Being a piano player, first you can’t bend notes on a piano, you can but it’s not a good thing to do. But if you do it on the harmonica it’s really cool, because you can make the reeds which are in here, the brass reeds you can make them flex and detune to the point of being flat. You can bend them a 1/2 step flat, you can even bend them a whole step flat. While that happens is it takes the pitch way far away from what you’re expecting, then there’s that tension as the pitch gradually hopefully comes back to where it suppose to be. Let me demonstrate now, first I’ll just do it so you can hear it and we’ll talk about how I did it. Here’s a regular note…and here’s a note that’s being bent flat…see how it wavers down low and then
