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muscle memory and intonation of the 4 draw
muscle memory and intonation of the 4 draw
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Andrew
1224 posts
Nov 08, 2010
4:59 AM
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I discovered something yesterday.
There's a Sonny Boy Williamson I lick that goes
(I've forgotten how to tab)
4d-,4d,5d,
4d-,4d,5d,
4d-,4d,5d,
4d-,4d,5d triplets
as fast you you possibly can
It's harder than a similar Rice Miller lick:
4d,4d-,3d,4b
4d,4d-,3d,4b
4d,4d-,3d,4b
4d,4d-,3d,4b, also 3 beats to a bar, the 4d and 4d- being double speed
I discovered that the difficulty in the SBWI lick was caused by bending that 4D too far down, because the perfect semitone bend is so rarely required and I had only learnt the 3/4 tone bend, so the note is always threatening to jam.
The correct bend for that lick is a perfect semitone, so now I'm re-learning muscle memory by practising two different 4 draw bends.
Am I right in thinking I've expressed myself badly?
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Andrew,
gentleman of leisure,
noodler extraordinaire.
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hvyj
806 posts
Nov 08, 2010
5:09 AM
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The "floor" of any draw bend is quite a bit flatter than the target pitch for the bend. So, yeah, in order to bend to the correct pitch one cannot bend all the way to the "floor" of the bend.
In blues, a certain imprecision is part of the idiom, so all of us sometimes bend too far when soloing or improvising and get away with it. But, to play the note at proper pitch (which is essential in order to play a melody or head correctly) one cannot pull the bend down as far as possible or the pitch will be too flat. One has to properly intonate the bends.
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