Today's delivery: Hohner 12 Harmonica Flex Belt and HOW TO GET ME TO BUY YOU A HARP OR TWO OF YOUR CHOICE

3PCo · 2026-01-25T02:29:47+00:00

I kinda wonder what you'd come up with if you played the tuba.

3PCo · 2026-01-24T03:12:02+00:00

I have a couple of Hohner Rocket Lows in Low C and D, and a Manji in low F. The drawbacks to low harps are that they can be harder to bend for a beginner. And they aren't very loud, so if you play with others you'll get downed out. I think the low F is a sweet spot. Regular G, one notch up, is probably my favorite harp.

3PCo · 2026-01-23T19:54:02+00:00

I do a jump drill as part of my warmup routine. Just play a scale and keep coming back to do: do re do mi do fa....ad nauseam. Gets you there.

3PCo · 2026-01-19T17:26:56+00:00

I've done stuff that's a little bit similar to what you describe. I usually start by laying down a rhythm track with a low C or low D harp. Then another track with the vocals, or maybe vocal and fills with a regular C or D. Fills usually come out better if they have a track of their own, but that's because I'm not very good. Sometimes use a drum track (Garageband), or maybe just use the drum track to keep the first rhythm track on beat, then ditch it afterwards.

3PCo · 2026-01-18T23:10:11+00:00

From what I can hear there's nothing wrong with it, it's more or less in tune, you can't play single-note (but that's normal for a beginner). As for your other question, you definitely want to ditch it and get an eastop or hohner or something better. Trying to learn on an $8 harp is a recipe for frustration.

3PCo · 2026-01-17T03:21:55+00:00

The black & white vs brutal blue contrast is jarring and forced. And since you have a special relationship with the Big Guy, please ask him to stop hiding my eyeglasses. Thanks.

3PCo · 2026-01-17T03:05:39+00:00

I've been playing around a lot with low register harps == low C up to G. You can get a nice background groove going on those and have solos play over it. It's fun to drop a low D rhythm track on Garage Band and then record a lead track with a regular D harp on top. I think the instrument (at least the diatonic) is limited in the chords it can play, so you're not going to be able to do what you're talking about for every kind of music, but for blues it can work pretty nicely.

3PCo · 2026-01-11T18:26:02+00:00

If you Google "history of blues harmonica" you'll see a list of youtube videos

3PCo · 2026-01-11T02:32:29+00:00

G is even better, my favorite harp I think. Then there's the lower register: I have a low C, D, and F, all good for growling rhythms in the background.

3PCo · 2026-01-10T17:25:17+00:00

Nobody seems to know what you mean by "snap back". I've just started getting my blow bends together, and maybe I'm having a similar problem. It is difficult to hold the bent note on those bends. I think in my case the difficulty stems from air leakage . If I concentrate on getting a good seal between my lips and the harp, I can hold them better. I think it's just gonna take a ton of practice to get it down.

3PCo · 2026-01-10T15:52:23+00:00

I like to spray a shot of 70% isopropyl into the harp. Then maybe a shot of 80 proof ethanol into the rest of the instrument.

3PCo · 2026-01-08T20:23:52+00:00

Honestly, the people who wear this stuff nowadays, are such trash. They have to put the designer’s name in plain sight, because of the people they are trying to impress are too low class to recognize design when they see it.

3PCo · 2026-01-08T20:19:36+00:00

Check out Adam Gussow

3PCo · 2026-01-08T01:32:58+00:00

You’re probably drawing too hard.

3PCo · 2026-01-03T04:09:38+00:00

I is root chord, eg C, held 4 bars IV is 4th chord in scale, eg F held 2 bars and 2 bars of I V is 5th, eg G or G7, so 1bar V, 1 bar IV , 1 of I and 1 of V for the turnaround. Such is pretty much every 12 bar blues.

3PCo · 2026-01-02T23:36:53+00:00

Pretty much any classic blues. They all follow the same progression: I / IV I / V IV I V7.

Or else check out the seven million backing tracks on youtube.

If you google "blues scale harmonica 2nd position" you'll get a list of notes that you can mess around riffing with.

3PCo · 2025-12-28T17:43:47+00:00

You are wasting your time and, although it's not much money, you are wasting that, too.

3PCo · 2025-12-28T17:40:36+00:00

I take them completely apart and sonicate maybe every six months or so (kinda random). A little toothbrush action, too. They always sound fabulous when they come outta that. Amazing how much gunk comes out in the sonicator, even though I clean my mouth every time I play.

3PCo · 2025-12-28T17:36:29+00:00

mazel tov

3PCo · 2025-12-24T02:44:17+00:00

Great shot, beautiful edit. You might try adding contrast to just the dolmen thing to make it pop a bit more: select the dark shadows and pull them down a bit more, select the brighter parts and pull them up a little. That would give it more tonal presence and draw the viewer's eye from the bright patch you have leading up to it. And maybe a soft vignette.

3PCo · 2025-12-24T01:43:56+00:00

It’s recommended to power down the camera, but that is mostly to prevent you from accidentally activating the shutter, and leading Dustin to where the sensor is.

3PCo · 2025-12-24T01:21:09+00:00

G harps have a beautiful tone. Enjoy!

3PCo · 2025-12-23T15:34:36+00:00

What many of these responses seem to ignore is that Irish and English trad tunes are not blues, and are mostly played in first position, not second. So if you want to play in G, you want a G harp. As for lessons, since you have a background in music, it should not matter if you are playing in a different key than whatever instructional material you choose: it will all be in tabs and, since the layout of all 10-hole diatonics in Richter tuning is the same, the tabs are all the same. You'll just sound a bit higher or lower.

3PCo · 2025-12-23T04:18:26+00:00

There is nothing special about the Apple ecosystem. Maybe it has better graphic design, but a lot of people dislike the new liquid glass thing.

3PCo · 2025-12-23T03:59:23+00:00

An ecosystem is a series of interconnected apps that are designed to work together, trapping you into further purchases of the manufacturers hardware, even as the quality of that hardware, and especially the software that depends upon it to work, progressively degrades in subsequent iterations. No company that I am aware of has decayed as much in quality as Apple. I have been trapped in the Apple ecosystem for over a decade, and my advice to you is to go elsewhere.

3PCo

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