I don't mean to be offensive but if you listen to very old Blues recordings Chords were a lot more common than single notes, and although bent nkltes were common it was Chords that led to popularizing before the rise of Chicago Blues. And despite it purposefully not sounding bluesy, it sounds great! He plays a lot of classical music and the occasional (and awesome) star wars theme, not blues. It's not an inability to get bends or overblows, it's simply what you choose to play on the instrument, and in which position you choose to play it in. Have you heard him play? He's one of the better players on the sub. Just as a quick example, one youtube search yielded this 12th position sample that's clearly swing, not blues. But to say that all 12 positions are for blues just simply isn't true. I don't know exactly how you've been using the terminology, but usually the 12 positions are used to talking about BluesĬan you tell me what positions 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11 even are? Not being a dick - I don't know either. Although commonly used for blues, not every 2nd or 3rd position song is a blues song by a long shot. You can absolutely play melodies in 2nd position if you have good control over your bends. While people do sometimes stray away from 2nd for melodies, this is more a skill thing than a limitation of the harmonica. Traditionally it requires too many bends to be used for accurate melodies It's an attribute of the harmonica more than the skill of the player. This is also the primary reason why people don't usually use 1st position for blues. Second position is popular for blues because the key notes of the blues scale happen to fall on draw notes that can be bent, and sound more "bluesy" as a result. Second position is used for chords and is popular for Blues because of that, not a separate or random occurance.
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However it's blues scale sounds the most sorrowful with a professional player out of any of the positions.įor the other positions, I'm curious how you're getting bends and overblows to sound less Bluesy than anyone else. Third position is the second most used Blues position, and no you generally can't use chords with it. Traditionally it requires too many bends to be used for accurate melodies (apart from sounding slightly off, it will sound Bluesy if you play in 2nd position, more so than usual for other positions in any case). You can play train songs as well as many old styles of Blues songs only on a Richter-Tuned harmonica playing on Cross Harp. Chromatics are, of course, another story.įirst position is usually used for folk melodies, yes, because the Blues scale on it would otherwise require fairly good technique. I don't know exactly how you've been using the terminology, but usually the 12 positions are used to talking about Blues, particularly for Diatonics.
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