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I love this song, THIS IS THE BLUES

Superb lesson, thank you soo much! Been playing for 16 months and this was a real eye-openener for me.

Why do I keep it of breath ??? What is the trick ?

Awesome👍

Really enjoy your teaching style. Easily one of the best on this platform 🎶👍💪

You just made my decision for me! I was trying to choose between powerbender tuning or Wilde rock tuning and the chordal stuff you showed was very hip. That put me over the top. Thanks

Amazing material ! tks a lot. I would like to do a question..... What note is the full o complete bend in the 3 hole ? (Is A, or Ab?) Congrats Sr !

Lee, I don’t know if this gets mentioned much, but a lot of players play the 2 draw whole-step bend routinely to its maximum extent…which is actually tonally flat relative to the whole tone decrease. It sounds ok sometimes (like when slamming the end a tune in cross position on the 7th) but really not always. What really alerted me to this issue of the max 2 draw being flat was when trying to play Little Walter’s instrumental That’s It. It’s in 3rd position and the second note of the tune is a held 2 draw whole step bend. If you play this bend to its maximum extent, it really sounds awful because it is flat. Walter plays it hard but hovers at the correct pitch slightly above its maximum point (much harder to do). In the end, one’s ear is the only real guide when bending, although knowing in your head ahead of time the *relative* pitches of 1, b3, 3, 5th is also very useful. Just putting this out there for the possible benefit of others, I know you know this stuff inside out!

Thanks Lee..... I was in a RUT !!!

You sold me to them:)

Thank you!

Hi Lee, really enjoying your tongue blocking course and making good progress so thanks very much for posting it. I’m just a bit unclear on one thing. As we are now moving down to holes 2 & 3, are we now switching our tongue to the other side of the hole we are playing ? Many thanks.

Lovin this video man! That bent 6 is givin me major Stevie Wonder vibes! I need to work on my tongue blocked bends stat! Big love from Dublin and thanks for these vids 😃

Hi Lee, thank you very much for your time and your generosity for demystify this technique I have just one question : when you switch to the octave to single note do you tongue block three holes ? or just two and reducing a bit your embouchure? From France thanks

It tingles in your head.

I thought most players tongue-blocked from the left.

Please come back …

7:43 so true. Even the chugging for me is hard not to loose the rhythm:(

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You have teaching tallent and Im startin to gain ground. Thank you brother

Outstanding interview! Thank you Joel and Lee. Fantastic all around.

Thanks !

I am a grangdpa. Playin harmonica. My grandson is 6 years old. And I have an A and a C harmonica for him. I hope to learn him some magic. Harmonica is... well we know :) Anyway....nice music mr Lee!

So here I am back at it 2 years after first watching this tutorial. I've practiced some basic chugging and learned tongue blocking in the meantime. I had to give up back then but I now finally got it. I've been gaining an interest in Bluegrass and Country blues this past little while so this is just what I needed. Would you consider mapping the song by Wayne Raney called Lost John Boogie? It is a great chugging song but also sounds deceptively simple: czcams.com/video/0pNQFCn6WZQ/video.html

Sorry accidental thumbs down. Think i fixed it. These videos are great!

These podcasts are great. Really like the content and delivery. If I could share some feedback, you have a habit of stacking questions… There’s no need to ask and then clarify what you’re asking in 5 different ways, only to then circle right back to asking the exact same question before you let Joe answer. Sometimes it was tough to follow.

So so interesting

Very cool !

Thanks!

Thanks!

Excellent! Congrat's! Thank u !

This is the most useful harmonica instruction I have seen Thank You !!!

Sehr gut 👍🏻. Danke! 😀

I can do it at 1/2 speed….sort of….I’ll spend the next week on this and hopefully I’ll gradually bring it up to speed, and hopefully get that bounce feel that makes it groove..

I need you to come and move next door to me please

Thanks for the post. I see you are playing the harp back to front and holding it with the opposite hand than everyone else I've come across. I picked up a harp and started just like that because I didn't know different and there is no way I can change now . I wondered if this would hold me back but after seeing you I realise it's not the grip that will hold me back, just my lack of skill and practice.

Thank you for an awesome vid amd instruction

Never knew Ray Orbison played the harmonica .

Did you reverse your comb? 😆Looks awesome!

In step 2 of the exercises, why do you get that "Wo" sound when starting the chord a split second before going to the single note? When I do it, I don't get anything like that.

Cool!

thanks mate fir yr teaching. much appreciated .. cheers

Kim Wilson is so good at this technique and I had no idea what he was doing. Dennis Gruenling is another that does this technique to perfection. It makes their shuffles sound so buttery smooth.

I am very glad that I discovered such a wonderful musician and harmonica teacher Lee Sankey. Unfortunately, I do not speak English fluently, but nevertheless I understand a lot and I hope to understand a lot more intuitively in the learning process. I don’t understand how this happened, but in this video, Lee plays the LA. Sorry, am i right?

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Are you articulating the draw notes or just using breath control? I can play the groove rhythm, but it’s missing the bounce feel that you have going.

Your rhythm groove lessons have helped provide more material to improvise with solo. Much appreciated. Would love an advanced Sonny Terry lesson!

This is a missing component for a vast majority of harp players. Rhythm is everything!

Nice!

Merci