8 Tips For Bending On Harmonica - Beginner Harmonica Lesson
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- This week's harmonica lesson will show you 8 tips to help you get started bending on the harmonica. You will need a harmonica in the key of C.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:11 8 Tips For Bending on Harmonica
1:23 Tilt Bend
2:36 Vocalize "EEE-000"
3:57 Strong Muscular Tongue
4:35 Don't Pull Too Far Back and Listen to What You Are Doing
6:03 Keep the Harmonica Tipped Up
7:04 Don't Play Harder
7:53 Don't Move Your Mouth
8:44 Keep Tongue Pointing Forward
10:38 Click in Description For Bending Checklist
10:56 Easy 12 Bar Blues Course - Now Enrolling
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I've learned some pretty technical things on guitar,bass and drums, but this is the most frustrating musical technique I've ever tried!! 😆
Agreed!!!😅😅
100% I’ve been trying to bend for so long now and just can’t get it
Joe Deverell-Smith Don’t give up!!! I got it and you will too!
Totally agree! Reminds me of when I taught myself to whistle loudly with my fingers. Weeks and weeks and weeks of failure. But I eventually got it. I guess that's what keeps me going.
Trying to incorporate bends in the blues scale.... my poor neighbors lol. It's like a chromatic squeaky toy. Over n over and over 😯
water fire earth air these four nations once lived in harmony then everything changed when the avatar learned the harmonica.
Actually I am imagining the draw bend as some kind of airbending and it helps controlling the air flow...
I need to harmonbend as well
Me too
That's mad, I got it pretty much straight away! Keep at it, I'm sure you'll get it soon!
The 'ee' 'oo' technique is what got it for me, as a guitarist I find it weird that the note bends down though!
Man, you're my hero. My mom gave me a harmonica for my birthday when I was like 14 or so. Since then I've tried to bend. That's more then 10 years ago, I learned playing piano, guitar, bass and mandolin during that time but didn't manage to do that f*ing bend on my harmonica - until I watched your video yesterday. Turns out: I held that thing wrong for 10 years - tip 5 was the missing hint for me. You're the only one I've seen who actually shows that. Plus the eee-ooo and the last tip helped a lot. Thanks again 1000 times!
That's fantastic, took too long but I am so glad you picked the harp again! :-)
Me too! Bending for the first time since i bought this years ago.
@@TomlinHarmonica I still strugling with this bending technics.. OMG, so hard for me..
I use my only cheap china's harp.. Do you think I use the wrong harp? And should I pick the good one?
@@andrestp from my experience from bending you probably should invest a couple more dollars for a good beginners harp that is easy to play and to bend with like a hohner special 20
@@andrestp cheap harps are not a good way to start learning harmonicas. They usually have a really bad tone, and most of them are really leaky so are significantly harder to play than decent harmonicas. Bending would almost be impossible on those harps. Anyone would recommend a semi-decent harp over a cheap one.
just incredible, hundres of videos that ended up being useless, but this video, this man, bro i fucking love you never gonna forget
This one lesson gave me my first 2 draw bend. 👍😎
This is crazy. I have been playing harmonica for about a week (total playing time maybe 1-2 hours), and have been focusing on bends because I know how hard it can be, and I never understood how it's done.
Within 10 minutes of trying this stuff I had fairly consistently bent holes 1 through 6.
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Thank you Tomlin!
I’ve learned so so much from this lad in such a short time literally only just stumbled upon him today and after only two hours of practice I’ve learned more from him than I’ve learned in months paying rubbish teachers . Thanks
Most clear explanations about bending. Thanks a lot
Thank you!
I've been playing the harp for a few months now on and off, happy with my progression, could not bend for the life of me. I installed one of those tuner apps on my phone that detect which harp note is being played and had it next to my laptop while watching this video, never once getting the 4 draw bend button to light up on the app. I practiced, rewatched this video, paused, repeat process for a good 45 minutes and all of a sudden with the culmination of all the tips I got the -4'! I was so happy I nearly cheered out loud! Now I'm just working on getting it every single time and getting it into the muscle memory, like learning how to play single clean notes. Thanks so much Tomlin!
That is awesome to hear! So pleased for you and well done for persevering and working through it :-)
which app are u using`?
Mr Trung which app?
What app??
What app?
Literally your first tip helped me bend so much easier. I know covering the hole a bit had something to do with it but this was just such an obvious method that works so good. Gonna keep watching the rest but thank you so much.
100% percent difference in the tilt of the harmonica!! great tip
Wow, this is the only video that helped me pick up bending. The first tip to literally tilt your harmonica is perfect since it provided me with a reference tone. Thumbs up!
I’ve tried so hard to get it and I practiced everyday to no avail but watching this video helped me get it straight away. Awesome!!!
I gave up on bending and the harmonica because i could never preform a bend. this video has helped me break that curse.
I've been trying to do the bending so hard since so long and this is the first video that really really helped me.
I could do my first bending... thanks a lot you are the best
Been struggling with bending, worked through your tips. The first one told be what I was aiming for, tip 5 was a game changer. I can now bend, so grateful.
Watched several of these from other instructors - yours made the most sense to me, and I got my first 4-hole true bend....THANKS!!
Awesome this lesson really helps especially for beginners, its my second day and after lots of patience and breaks i finally find myself understanding the concept of bending on harmonica. (Please note that this video has everything you need to know to accomplish this technique so if you keep finding yourself in a rut, relax, rewatch, imitate to the best of your ability and don't get angry when you can't get it)
THANK YOU! this is my first day with harmonica and I nailed the single note method but watched 5 other videos on how to bend but finally after watching yours I got it! I play the tin whistle and ocarina but this is a whole different beast. Awesome tips.
Thank you Tomlin. I have owned a harp (albeit a cheap one) for most of my life. I currently own a Hohner Big River and a Hohner Super Chromonica, both in the key of C, however I just ordered a Special 20 to hopefully make my bending easier. I've never really committed to learning to play, but in the tinkering I have done in the past 40 years I have always struggled with getting a consistent, on key bend. I have have owned books & watched videos attempting to explain it till I'm ready to throw the harp into the ocean. This is the first time someone has walked me through the nuances, step by step, that made a meaningful difference. After just one viewing my bends are more solid and within a few minutes of practicing your tips there is a significant improvement. This just might be the breakthrough I needed to take my playing seriously.
I train for a living, and you are a great instructor. Bravo. Thank you for this!
I like the EEE...OOO method the best. It was the first method I learned and have never changed.
Whatever works for you :-)
Very good, very clear, well articulated and you cover what so many others do not. Been trying to play for years. Did a couple of your lessons and sorted some bad habits in 5 minutes
Utterly brilliant, effective and simple. Thank you!
Thank you so much for helping us novices. I inherited my Dad's Hohner harmonica (he was 93) so quite an old one and loving getting to use it. Just working on the bends now :0)
These areTHE best harmonica lessons I've ever come across!
Dude, I have being trying this for weeks based on different ways on internet. None of them works for me. But with your methods, I get it in 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
Picked up my first harmonica today ! Your a very good teacher I got this almost instantly! The eeee o thing really helped
Thank you for this video! I’m new to the harmonica and struggled to bend notes and your video is the best one out there for learning how to do it.
wow this helped me so much! i feel like its such a fine movement in the beginning that starts to become clearer and clearer once you get the hang of it the first time and keep practicing. thanks a lot!
I got it! Once I was able to get a tiny bit of a bend, it was just like you said in #4- slow controlled movements with a strong tongue to find the pitch. If I try to go too fast I lose it, but I've played enough wind instruments to know it's all just developing the muscle memory from here.
I really can't thank you enough for this. I was struggling with the whole step/whole and a half step bend, and your advice on not blowing too hard and mouth movements helped me nail it after so freaking long.
Aw thank you Karthik!
Your techniques are amazing. I have been able to get both blow bends and draw bends quickly after watching your videos, which I was struggling with when following other channels.
OMG I LOVE YOU
I play the harmonica since December and i never get the bend NEVER and just play start on the video and befor listen to you i got it.
Tip #4!! It changed my technique and now I can bend note on any hole! Great vid.
Good grief......so blasted hard!!! I can't even come close! Very frustrating.
Amen, David. But he did say "six months." Trust me, I'm in the same boat as you. Keep practicing my friend.
It took me a lot of trying, i found the first hole was easiest to bend and just couldnt get the 4th hole to do so. Just keep practicing, and it will come to you
Twelve months and piteux resultat . : Decevant
@@parealbuffalo5790 You get a perfect bend when the sound of the airflow between your tongue and your palate (the roof of your mouth) matches the pitch of the bent note. Once you get that, bending becomes easy. I made a video about this, maybe it can help you.
David Danz it’s easy when you try to pronounce ggggg...
Just went through the tips in this video again to improve my Bending, really helped. Great tips and they all work when applied probably. Thank you Tomlin 👏👏👏👏👏✅
Thank you so much, Tomlin! I'm Brazilian and i really like your guidelines. Good work, my friend. Thanks! Sérgio.
I paused when instructed each time until I achieved an audible difference in tonality. I worked each section thoroughly and changed from slight bend to a clear and deep sustain. While trying to develop proper technique, I developed incorrect techniques simultaneously. Then upon resuming video each time, he explains precisely how to correct such errors as if he was present. By the end of this video (30 mins for me) I was bending smoothly and deeply, half or full! Complete NOOB here, credit due to this MASTERFUL TEACHER! Just started yesterday on your beginner 12 bar blues. Thank You. HOHNER BIG RIVER HARP "C"
+Duke Dixon dude! This is awesome to hear - I'm so pleased. Keep up the good work!
you're gifted, my friend
Hows you playing now I'm new to Harp got seydel 1847 wood and it's a beauty
Tomlin Leckie, how much does the difficulty increase when one goes to steel reeds? I have the basic 5-harp Hohner Roadhouse Blues pack (essentially Chinese crap), and my thought is to replace those with quality harps as I blow them out. But my need right now is for an F harp, as I play ukulele and 75% of the songs I play are in the key of C. Rather than buying another piece of junk, I thought I would get a Seydel, but it will have steel reeds.
ho did you find the toung position ?? 🤔
I watched a half dozen other tutorials to no avail. I watched yours and I got it. Perfect explanation
What a great teacher! I've been trying to learn bending for months, and apparently I just need to watch this video to learn it!
Excellent Israel!
hey Tomlin, i am 71 years old and been playing harmonica badly for a decade, never could bend but always found your tips the most helpful of all the millions online and then yesterday, watching you and, on your recommendation, a bit of Gussow...BAM! i got the 2 draw bend. still takes work but i feel for the first time i'm on my way. at my age, gotta hurry!
Hi there! Glad you were able to finally work that out! It's never too late to learn new things :-)
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Thank you.
Best explains I've seen so far! I am a follower now!
Thank you very much
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Thank you
That moment you make a Bend for the first time. :D Feels REALLY GOOOOOOOOOD. Stop video and repeat. Because from now on i'm better than when i first started it :P.... And repeat…..
Wow! This guys "nails it!" A true Teacher as in the Jethro Tull hit song.
One of the Best Harmonica video tutorial .NICE
Thanks Tomlin
I have Been Practising bending the note's and I have nailed it. I now need to start to learn so to play some Tunes !
Thank you! You have the Best harmonica lessons!!! Best and easy explanation and your smiling face makes me learn with joy!
Great tips! Thank you!
Excellent lesson! Many Thanks
Thanks from Turkey!
Oh my god! I got it finally. 2 min literally! Awesome!!!
Number 5 was the only thing I needed, I cannot thank you enough 😭❤️
Can you actually bend better now?
@@eduardojara6955 yeah! But it took some time tbh hahaha
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Great video Tomlin thanks for your advise!
Big help to me. Excellent video.
I am a diatonic harmonica beginner at Taiwan. I like your lesson, I will try your method from now on.
Tipping up slightly and the E O were the two most important tips for me!
Oh my gosh! I just got it! You timed this lesson perfectly.
Thank-you so so much! I'm so happy. I thought "bending" was gone forever.
Your lesson has helped me so much. You answered all my questions on technique need immediately!!! Thank you!!!👏👏👏👏
You are just so awesome!! After a lot of videos, I finally got it watching this one - on hole 4 anyway......it was the tongue movement. 4 needs the pressure at the back upper palate for me. Seems to be a quite different for each note though...can't get anything on 1 and 2 yet, and not much on 3 (if any?). 6 works by changing the tongue nearer the front of the mouth, at which time the tongue starts to flutter! More practice. Thank you so much!
Excellent!! Thank you, Tomlin.
Count me as another beginner who has benefitted from your bending lesson! I can now draw bend on #4, getting a bend on 3 draw seems harder but will keep experimenting!
Thank you for these lessons!
thank you so much for this! finally played my first draw bend after this video and it sounds so cool. god bless you and keep you safe
That's a great moment - so glad you hit one!
incredible, thank you !
You are a great teacher. Thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos.
Thanks I got it on the first try every “technique” thanks to you
You taught me something on the first lesson. Thanks very much.
Great lesson. Thanhks!
Yes!! You're such an awesome teacher!!! I got it!!
Thanks Tom. Been looking for your advice..
Nailed it at tip 5! Thanks buddy. You are the best harmonica teacher on TH-cam
Great lesson! Clean bends are my struggle. I agree with Nerenahd, cheap harps don't make decent bends. I too use the Special 20 (but I still need more bending practice). Tomlin - some people are natural artists and make bends easy. I have an engineer's mind and I like how you break down your lessons to the mechanics of technique. Just what a gearhead like me needs. I'm a thousand-times improved by practicing your lessons!
Helpful, well done video!
Your instruction and tips are fantastic - thanks!
That eeee....ooooo work very well for me.....
I got it right away before the this tutorial video even done playing. Thank you!
Ive watched a lot of bending videos and this is the first that helped a lot!! Thanks!
Tip 2 and 5 did it for me. Good video.
Thanks for the tips!! That helped a lot
Thank you thank you thank you! The key tip for me was to tilt the harmonica slightly up. The tongue action is not as severe as I thought but by bringing it a little back and to the roof to create a narrower channel I can bend 4 🤠
Awesome tips. Watched a lot of videos before this one. The eeeoooeee tip helped me nail it!
Great lesson as usual! This very useful for who want to start with bendings...
The best explanation of how to bend. Thank you!
I’ve read book and websites for this, but couldn’t touch anything until I see your video. The key tip is at the 5:40 that helps me a lot. Thay you for teaching me that!
I had watched loads of video how to bend before I saw this video. And finally!!! I got it! Thanks Tomlin! Now I finally can bend))
Brilliant thanks!
Great tutorial. What I recently discovered is that no matter which harmonica key and which hole you're playing, you get a perfect bend when the sound of the airflow between your tongue and your palate matches the pitch of the bent note. Once you get that, bending becomes a natural thing to do. Keep up the good work!
Tommy Harmonika huh
I'm trying to grasp how to get the pitch of the note. 🙄
Great teacher!
Omg thank you sir!!! U are a hero!! Waiting the next video!
Great lesson Tomlin, thanks
6:02 I think this part is most important and most common mistake amongst novices like me who just bought harmonica. Thanks Tomlin!
Thank you very much, you explain wonderful
Eres muy claro para explicar, ahora es solo practicar, this lesson is superb! thanks.
Gracias Oeste :-)
I've played a straight tongue block method and do a lot of melodies but I think that's what was 'blocking' me from bending! After all these years and watching so many others try to teach a bending method, finally YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE that has made it so I can actually bend a note!! I bent the note first try with the tilt method! So easy! I can now bend a little with eeooo! I discovered I can't use the tongue block method and bend at all so thank you so much!! I'm gonna go play some blues!!!
That's awesome to hear Charli! Keep it up :-)
SUPERB EXAPLAINATION , THANK YOU FOR VALUABLE TRIC👌
That is very clear and well explained and has helped me a lot -thanks Tomlin!
Tomlin, of all the lessons on the Internet yours, are the best
Great teacher,very clear
Tomlin thanks n million. Within 5minutes i beat bending with your tips. Was so frustrated for not succeeding for months. You teaching is brilliant!!!
Thank you Elsa!
Yes frustrating as I was gonna lost this it’s started to sound more like a bender note.
Good explanations 👍
Reminds me so much of Once Upon a Time in the West...! If you haven't seen that movie, you should.
Great lesson, thanks for your time and expertise.