Uptonk
2 posts
Jul 15, 2013
7:22 PM
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When I started playing, I had no one to teach me the correct way to do anything. In recent months, I've had some instruction from a local pro player and watched loads of Youtube videos. My question is this: how do you deal with the 3 hole blow? Or do you? I find myself using the 3 blow on occasion when others are using the 2 draw. Do you just ignore the 3 blow? If you do use it, what makes you choose it rather than the 2 draw?
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KingoBad
1348 posts
Jul 15, 2013
7:35 PM
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It is far from a bad habit. Any time you need it to exhale, you can use it instead of the 2 draw. Depending where you are coming from and where you are going, it makes lots of sense.
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Danny
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SuperBee
1311 posts
Jul 15, 2013
7:58 PM
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Yep, sometimes it's better...for no reason other than it was the first thing I thought of...consider the second chorus of Juke...or even the first chorus. Try playing the opening lick starting on 3 blow, then try it with 2 draw.
But in the second verse think about how Walter uses the 3 blow in that first phrase.
Also, if your putting in a slap or a pull, it might depend whether you want the I or IV chord involved...if you know what I mean...so if your use of that note is as the 5th of the IV nd you gonna slap it you probably want to use 3 blow, whereas if your using it to convey the root of the I chord, you would maybe use 2 draw if you slapping it.
If I'm playing an arpeggio of a blow chord, I'll probably use 3 blow, but not necessarily. Sometimes it's just down to what breathes better, what comes before or what follows
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JellyShakersTipJar
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S-harp
144 posts
Jul 16, 2013
2:34 AM
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I use 3blow mostly in octav with 6blow, but also in chords.
Like mentioned above, also works to cirkle breath.
The 3blow's tone however, used as a single note, is limited ... can color it with some vibrato, that's about it ... so I almost never use it as a single note.
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The Iceman
1016 posts
Jul 16, 2013
7:46 AM
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To have a choice at any time between an inhale and exhale approach to a single note is one of the wonderful things about Richter tuning diatonic.
Always try ideas using both options and decide which works best for you to make your ideas flow best.
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The Iceman
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1847
919 posts
Jul 16, 2013
8:24 AM
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i sometimes use it as an octave
you can also tongue block just the single note
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third times a charm!
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mr_so&so
704 posts
Jul 16, 2013
10:50 AM
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As a single note, I generally prefer the 2d, because I can bend into it and it sounds stronger to me. But I use 3b for slaps, and the 3-6 octave split.
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Uptonk
3 posts
Jul 16, 2013
6:22 PM
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Thanks, guys. I'm glad to hear that my "bad habit" isn't so bad. It's hard to learn new things, but it's even harder to forget something once it's ingrained.
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Rick Davis
2114 posts
Jul 16, 2013
7:48 PM
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Yep, to get rid of extra air. And I play it very quickly as a passing note in some odd things I came up with decades ago when I started playing and which still find their way into my playing today.
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Baker
311 posts
Jul 17, 2013
5:05 AM
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Yeah, it's totally valid. It's very useful if you jumping back and/or forward between the 4 blow. Check out Sonny Boy II's solo on Help Me. I think Adam has a lesson on it somewhere.
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