How To Not Suck with Minor Blues - Harmonica Jam Track - E Minor Blues Harp Jam - Tunesday 36
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- On this week’s "TUNESDAY" I’ll be playing in E minor, with the Nick Moss Band. This is one of my new Jam Tracks and I am using an A Hohner Crossover (2nd position), as well as a Low D harmonica (3rd position). The whole set of these E Band Jam tracks are now on the site through the link below, featuring the Nick Moss Band! I miss you all - and please stay safe out there!!
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How To Not Suck with Minor Blues - Harmonica Jam Track - E Minor Blues Harp Jam - Tunesday 36
Blues Scale works so well with Minor Jams!
Dorian mode/scale is fun too
I’m a organ player been playing since I was five I picked up the harmonica today after watching this I instantly got it… when you said let the music speak to you
It's killer Mr. Dennis😍 Microphones stand like King Cobras🖤🖤🖤🖤
Powerful venom they have 🐍
Daaamn!!!! I love the way you play, geezzz. I've lost the count how many times I see this video!
Thank you!! Glad you dig it 🙏🏻🎶
You kill me with this stuff. Totally awesome and easy listening for me. Again, sitting at my desk working for the man and grooving on your music. A much needed boost!!
Thank you! Much appreciated, I never know if or how this can positively impact others, it’s always nice to know. The jams keep me going as well. Used to touring and never had this much time off the road, but been very busy with all kinds of stuff. More new jam tracks coming soon too!
Very cool!! 😎
Every Artist needs a canvas. Every Musician needs an audience. The strain of not being able to perform live wears on all of us bluesmen. I admire how well you translate that strain through the harp; and make the instrument speak your truth.
Your fellow Harp Players encourage you to keep the faith.
Gregson 'NOTES' Gordon 🎵
Thank you!! 🙏🏻 tough times to be an artists for sure. I’ve been working on so many things behind the scenes and other projects and products. It’s all taking time, but slowly will be happening... thanks for the kind words 🎶🙏🏻
That was Awesome Dennis , you could of kept on going , lol , Really Enjoy ljstening to your Playing !!!!
Thanks! I was ready to keep going LOL! Appreciate that
As always , good fun and instructive. I enjoyed jamming with you - playing the reg D in 3rd when you were playing A and playing the A when you were playing high D. This helps make up for not being able to play with others during this damndemic.
Yea crazy times, glad you’re enjoying it! Love switching positions for this kind of thing
Not bad homie
You are badass, loving this! At 3:00 I heard you begin a tongue slap. The draw chord sounded like maybe the draw three reed has been flatted a half step to C. Is that what I am hearing or are you doing something else? I alter some of my harps' draw three as described using BluTac. I love the layout and the new chord[s]. Whatever it is you did here, it's just great. Thanks so much for sharing, hang tough. Peace.
Thanks so much, just jamming and improvising. I love these grooves. More new keys and tracks coming soon too 👍
@@DennisGruenling So, you say the low D has not had its draw three lowered by a half step? Then what is that I hear beginning at 3:00 minutes? That chord is normally not available on a harp unless the three draw has been flatted. Please, fill us in, thanks.
@@roberttemple2521 At that spot I am playing a 2-5 draw tongue trill. The flat 3rd you hear at that point is the 5 draw. I do not use altered tuning harps. Thanks for asking!!
@@DennisGruenling Thank you for that explanation. Groove on !
Hooker groove. love it and will buy the jam track this evening. cool :-)
Thanks!! I love all of John Lee Hooker grooves 👍
Great stuff! Do you tongue block all the low hole bends or do you lip purse them Dennis?
Yes, aside from only sometimes on the 1 draw, I TB all of that, yes 👍 Thanks!!
I didnt understand... youre using a D harmonica playing com an E minor blues, is that it? Isnt it dorian E? Jonian D... equals dorian E? Or not? I can play like this... I mean... an A harmonica to play blues minor B, and G harmonica to play A minor blues, and so on...???
I am just begining to learn harmonica dont judge me please...
No judging at all here, ever. I have been teaching for a long time, and I taught myself.
Yes, a D harmonica to play in E minor. Regardless of minor or not, a D harmonica played in E is 3rd position. The harmonica has many notes you need to bend in order to actually play (as opposed to a guitar where bending is an option but not needed to hit a note). The modes such a Dorian don’t really apply (although some people use the terms) because even though SOME of the tuning of the harp fits that mode, the mode isn’t strictly used by itself and while playing harp you also will bend to get some notes. In addition, the tuning of the harp is different in different parts of the harmonica, so there’s not really modes built in the harp anyway.
I also don’t know any harp players (and very few musicians aside from real serious jazz players) who use modes to play. It’s nice to understand them if you want to play different types of music, but in blues it’s not really used. Harp players will use the modal terms when speaking sometimes but it’s almost always a surface level use according to the tuning on part of the harp, not a mode that they strictly use to play in.
Just think of it as 3rd position. It’s a fourth up from the 2nd position harmonica key.
@@DennisGruenling thats awesome. I subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot. Thank you very much
@@matheushoff3089 Thanks! I have some written Q&A’s on my website, as well as webinars I do on Saturdays…and more to come 👍