The Only Thing That Makes Harmonica Notes Bend

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Richard Sleigh ( hotrodharmonicas.com ) makes it obvious that there is only one thing going on inside your mouth that causes harmonica notes to bend. He uses a slide whistle contraption connected to a key of F harmonica that shows what is going on inside your mouth that makes the reeds vibrate at different frequencies. If you teach harmonica, you can use this video to help you explain to your students what makes the notes bend...
Here is another video by Richard that goes into detail on note bending techniques-
How to Bend Notes on the Harmonica:
• How to bend notes on t...
Also - a free course on the fundamentals of playing the diatonic (blues) harmonica:
www.ultimateharmonica.com/p/t...
And a very in depth course on bending notes on the blues harmonica:
www.ultimateharmonica.com/p/t...
Plus articles and more resources at my website:
hotrodharmonicas.com

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@giusepperesponte8077 3 года назад

If I would pay anyone for a harp lesson it would be this guy, he has a true understanding of the instrument, and how wind instruments and reeds work in general, as someone who likes to learn exactly what is happening, this guy is great.

@tennisbum3686 Год назад

I totally agree with you

@johndouma3407 3 года назад

I really appreciate the fact that you built these tools to demonstrate this. Thank you very much.

@ninocrudele 11 месяцев назад

best explanation ever in all RU-vid, thank you!!!! subscribed!!!!

@Harmonicacom 10 месяцев назад

Great vid! thanks Richard.👊🏼

@bvandijk Год назад

As a scientist I truly appreciate this: finally somebody that does not just says something but demonstrates it with experimentation! Very cool.

@terryford2195 3 года назад

i am an amature chromatic this is the best explanation on bending i have heard i will save it cheers

@triphenderson2341 5 лет назад

Richard provides clarity to one of the hardest things to explain to students for we harmonica instructors. This will be played tonight at both of my classes. Thanks Richard!!!

@AdamWestUS 2 года назад

Amen Henderson!

@mateopavolini 3 года назад

I JUST LOVE THIS MAN, STILL NOT ABLE TO BEND BUT THIS REALLY MOTIVATED ME, NOW I KNOW WHAT IM TRYING TO DO!

@tennisbum3686 Год назад

This is the most coherent and understandable explanation of learning to play this instrument. You have a new subscriber here, and thank you for your insightful explanation

@timc3773 2 года назад

Hands-down, THE best video on bending I've watched.

@NiekEdeling 2 года назад

Sir Richard, I think you could explain to me everything I never understood in my entire life; incredibly clear!

@dinosilone7613 Год назад

This is the best explanation of bending I’ve ever heard.

@qualudia1 2 года назад

You are absolutely right on! I’ve have been trying to bend the lower scale#2 on a diatonic C harmonica and your right it’s a factor of mouth/tongue relationship. I haven’t found the right sound but once I do it’s a matter of doing exercises to strengthen that mouth memory. Basically doing exercises to make playing more automatic.. Great piece, I look forward to your channel.

@krishnanRan 10 месяцев назад

Excellent but simple to understand explanation for a difficult to achieve part of harmonica playing. Will start trying to bend notes with this concept in mind. Thank you.

@user-ix6of7ku7k 3 года назад

Thank you! I am so glad to see this video after just beginning to learn how to play harmonica

@garyn9704 Год назад

To me you've given the most understandable and helpful explanation of how to-thanks!

@tyrellmiller778 2 года назад

Breaking down the process of note bending in it's most rudimentary components. EXCELLENT

@therusfosterson238 2 года назад

Nice video Richard. Thanks for being clear and concise. I'm subscribing.

@user-xt7ir2tk9c Год назад

Brilliant explanation. Thank you very much.

@robertnester13 2 года назад

Fantastic demonstration! Thank you!

@BlackuLaLa 3 года назад

I love this! I still can't bend, but this is very helpful. Thank you!

@chaz6645 3 года назад

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I’m currently working on this.

@stevebuckerfield3868 2 года назад

Excellent and clear explanation.

@ernestturchi3954 8 месяцев назад

Was very interesting and helpful, thanks

@rickpalmer3340 2 года назад

Hello Richard, an excellent video on the theory behind bending. As a beginner I’m working on it. I get the bends 1, 2 and 1 on holes 1, 2 and 6 respectively, but struggle to get anything on hole 3. I’ll keep trying, in the meantime please do continue to make the videos. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

@fabriziotraballoni5460 3 года назад

thank you so much sir, the best explanation of ever, about harmonica bending notes

@michaelc.6927 Год назад

Very informative! I am recently toying with the idea of playing. This video sheds light on some helpful knowledge. Thanks !

@johnmusicman7056 Год назад

Awesome thank you Richard!

@hamishwatson2864 Год назад

Excellent explanation, thank you so much for sharing!

@pablocuello52 2 года назад

Gracias por your Time and Ideas Greetings desde Chile

@LeRequinBlue Год назад

Hi Richard, i appreciate the way you have explained.

@alfreddemuth6343 2 года назад

Male 82 just bought hohner c big river m/s I'm glad I found you it's my first harmonica

@medievalbox4395 4 месяца назад

Pretty cool : )

@uripmargono946 9 месяцев назад

Is that only it? I've been practising to bend the notes and no progress before I found this video for months. And today, it's getting better and easier to make it. Thank, good man. What a great lesson you give!

@MultiXarlie 3 года назад

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge sir. And greetings from Brazil!

@TheBigMclargehuge 2 года назад

Thank you, this video demystifies the whole concept to me.

@tommyharmonika Год назад

This is by far the best and clearest explanation of bending physics. Awesome gadgets too!

@richardroysleigh Год назад

Thanks! It was an interesting process to come up with this gizmo... I'm glad you found it useful... If you want to do a deeper dive into bending, check out the Bending Course - www.ultimateharmonica.com/p/the-bending-course

@stevepethel6843 3 года назад

Wow that is GENIUS contraption of the slide whistle harmonica demonstration.You really think deeply about harmonicas and out of the NORM..I love these ideas Richard great video.God continued Blessings on your life and music ministry...

@lizryan5848 3 года назад

And he thinks deeply about a lot of things and brings it all together so beautifully! Subscribing to his newsletter is a MUST!

@rapidwav5669 5 лет назад

Brilliant explanation

@rodneyange1046 6 месяцев назад

That was educational. Thank you

@BrendanPowerMusic 2 года назад

Cool demo Richard!

@Meddlmoe Год назад

I also experimented with 3d printing extensions that unfortunately change the volume before the reeds. You need to do two things: 1. Control the volume (as you said) 2. Create a narrow bottleneck in the back of your mouth that decouples your lung volume from your mouth volume. With a tube between your mouth and the harmonica at the right length, you can also create this bottleneck with your lipps, by creating a trumpet playing like lip-slot.

@kenzieprice6745 9 месяцев назад

Did you share any of your project on the web anywhere?

@robinmuller2881 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much, never befor did i understand this concept!

@Audiomonkscollective 2 года назад

Thanks for the excellent tutorial. Love you Sir

@LanceNelsonPorter 3 года назад

Thank you for this!

@sachinkapatkar 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot for sharing u knowledge related to this great intrument like harmonica.

@arcidiavolo Год назад

just great concepts

@edwardjamesbutler 5 месяцев назад

You sir are a musical scientist. Salute!

@God_my_Savior Год назад

This is incredible 😮

@MysteryMagee Месяц назад

Excellent explanation and props the biggest thing that helped me was the kaaaa sound thank you

@mickramsay5002 Год назад

Hey Richard, thank you for this interesting insight. I‘m gone give a try. I hope it will be the key to a full scale. Greetings from Hamburg/Germany

@kulcharshock421 7 месяцев назад

That “Slide Tube” blew me away !!! What a teaching device…!!!…simplifying it… and now all you have to do is make your mouth do it….it’s not voodoo..!!…you don’t have to to go to the crossroads lol…that’s a relief !!!

@MichaelTseCK 3 года назад

Thanks! I got my first bend after seeing your video!

@garfieldnate Год назад

Wonderful explanation! As someone who whistles a lot, this makes good intuitive sense. Essentially the reed is your lips, and you can change the pitch with your tongue just the same (though the reed is less-flexibly tuned to a single note). Follow-up questions: how do the different types of bends work, then, if they all operate on the same principle? Also, I thought the harmonica was constructed so that the draw and blow reeds would be activated on draw and blow. Physicallyl, how is the air making it to the opposite reed when you bend? How are the air chambers connected?

@tomconwell9575 3 месяца назад

Fascinating. Charming. Brilliant.

@dippingbird Год назад

Wow, best harp lesson ever!

@tenochramos4775 3 года назад

Thanks so much!!!! Congrat for your videos!! Saludos desde Mexico City.

@guitzanin 2 года назад

Fantastic! Thanks!

@samuelteh9421 2 года назад

Thank you sir for your great efforts to demonstrate d method for bending.

@Erreerreti 3 года назад

Thank you, very useful explanation

@richardroysleigh 3 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@johnrogers2253 3 года назад

That was brilliant, I understand so in the morning I'm going to get it at last...

@starckwest6358 Год назад

Excellent

@barryl9743 5 лет назад

That was great, made alot of sense, thanks!

@richardroysleigh 5 лет назад

Thanks for letting me know!

@spinnerone105 5 лет назад

Excellent! Really helped!!

@richardroysleigh 5 лет назад

Great - I am glad you found it useful...

@MrSpanky2001 11 месяцев назад

That reed prop was super cool.

@therealdoctorstrings 3 года назад

This is a very useful tutorial! I subbed to your channel! Look forward to learning more from you! Greetings from India- Ranjani

@richardroysleigh 3 года назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@saltwatersalmon798 2 года назад

This guy's a legend

@jensvide777 Месяц назад

The K technique made it click for me. Thanks!

@justinmeurer949 Год назад

Dang I wish I could have all of the RU-vid creators explain this so well

@TheRemyRomano 5 месяцев назад

That’s the first explanation I have heard that makes sense

@thewiz8895422 2 года назад

I understand that some use the back of the throat to create bends of which I cannot do. While lip pursing, I use the tip of my tongue to create draw bends on the low draw notes and the same for when I am blow bending on the high register . While tongue blocking, I use the same technique yet use the side of my tongue for draw bends , yet for high register blow bends I do go back to lip pursing. Thing is, there is more than one way to bend notes. I have used a tuner to check my bends, as well as using my ears and have them quite dialed in. Great video though

@seannakasone4316 3 года назад

that plunger really proved the point, great job. but the question i still have is, does changing the size of the mouth cause the opposite reed to vibrate?

@rapidwav5669 4 года назад

Brilliant

@howardbent5437 3 года назад

I wish I could like this video 5 times

@juanmariavive Год назад

excelent !

@JB-rw9xt Год назад

This is the place where science and harmonica meet.

@Harpdog.TonyWatson 5 лет назад

I had already learned what is covered in this video before viewing it, but still want to say that this video does a great job of making these concepts clear with good explanations, and clever useful demos. Good contribution to harmonica players.

@richardroysleigh 5 лет назад

I've pondered this for many years and this is an attempt to make it as clear as I possibly can. Thanks for your kind words...

@paulcundy4703 11 месяцев назад

Genius!

@RuckusOutfitters Год назад

It’s all based off of Bernoulli’s principle. Any restriction in the air flow, for example shrinking the size of the resonate cavity (your mouth), increases the “velocity” of the air. The pitch is directly related to the velocity of the air. By opening your mouth cavity your’e slowing the velocity of the air thus, lowering the pitch, when you close your mouth cavity you increase the velocity of the air, increasing the pitch. This guy explains it pretty well. We teach this same concept in playing duck and goose calls 😊

@DanDoucet101 Месяц назад

Great explanation and really appreciated the info about the effect going TOO far using the slide whistle example! Not I’ll stop trying to push my tongue out the back of my throat 😂

@FilipPandrc 2 года назад

ok that giant reed got me 😂😂

@VincePicton 4 года назад

Nicely explained, thanks. Any idea why one hole wouldn't bend? Tried gapping but hole 3 on a Honer in A just won't go.

@catoninetails789 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video! I have a couple of questions. 1. When you bend a note, let's say a draw bend, why does the other reed (in this case, the blow reed) also vibrate? 2. If you play a clean draw or blow note without bending, does the other reed vibrate as well or does this happen only when you bend? 3. On low notes (e.g. +1, -1, +2, -2 on an A harmonica), I feel like I do something different to make them sound strong compared to higher notes. I suspect that what I do is I make them bend just a tiny bit. So, anyway, the question is - when you play a low notes such as these, do both reeds vibrate or only one reed?

@jkyoft78 2 года назад

Interesting. So both reeds are playing on a blow and draw? What little bend I can achieve sounds like I am making a vowel sound, like talk thru the harp, and not really just dropping the pitch.

@HoneyboyDes 3 года назад

No one else has ever put it that way before...

@stevenfairless4931 Месяц назад

OK .. i had to pause the video and laugh awhile when that giant reed suddenly appeared ... now I'm configuring a giant harmonica and realized you need giant slide whistle at each hole to bend notes ... and I'm late for this party, being 5years ago 😁

@kenzieprice6745 Месяц назад

Hey Richard. Do you think this concept still works and applies to a completely isolated reed? (Only one reed in one channel)

@terrorbirds9835 8 месяцев назад

This guy should be named Richard Slay 🤘✨

@z1522 4 года назад

This seems simple, yet I don't think it is nearly this simple; for one thing, the blow and draw reeds in each chamber affect whether a bend is even feasible. This changes relative to which key harp is used, and the same pitch note on one harp may be an easy draw bend, the exact same note on a different key, still draw, may be trickier. I feel it is a complex interaction of yes, the mouth acoustics, but also the constriction/"contortion" of the air at the area of the mouth just behind the harmonica that makes for a pressure change. Players like Sonny Boy Williamson made the same bent note sound shallow and tinny, or deep and resonant, depending on constricting or opening the mouth and throat - which by the slide whistle analogy should have forced a pitch change as the mouth acoustics were opened or closed.

@jullev6709 3 месяца назад

Why I bend changing the angualation of airflow and the size of the holes, not increasing or decreasing mouhchamber ?

@SandorFule 3 года назад

Damn! I understood right now, how bending works. Thank you! I thought, bending is caused by the air speed change. Stupid me. :) Thanks again!

@michaelkral Год назад

Would it be possible to make a harmonica with reeds that can bend all notes like a trombone?

@selfactualizer2099 2 года назад

bought a harmonica last night, watche4d tons of videos but couldnt bend, this is the video i was looikiing for, i was wanting to know *how* the bend is accomplished (in terms of physics) the flute example helped anyways, I did it. i did A bend, the next morning after buying first harmonica, i cant do it again and im getting frustrateD (but staying relaxed) but I just wanted to say pffft hahaha i knew i could do it immediately if i try hard enough B)

@earthworm7346 22 дня назад

Sleigh Queeen!!! 💅🙌

@just_ryan_no_b 2 года назад

took me a whole minute to notice the giant harmonica behind him

@Jonathan-L Год назад

The thing that bends note is the change in velocity of air flow, which is controlled by the player.

@derrabe6253 10 месяцев назад

super 😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@frankofdk Год назад

Great demonstration Richard. But I think you got a detail wrong. I believe that you are cancelling a note, when you bend or play overblow (or use slidewhistle) . I'm thinking on a helmholtz resonator or a muffer on a car's exhaust system.

@ooDriveoo Год назад

Video: The harmonica reed starts vibrating Me: insta sub

@vladimirhonorato6237 2 года назад

maravilha.

@lenmcwilliams1058 Год назад

Wonderful explanation and demo! I notice you avoid using the term "resonance". It's the term usually used when describing sympathetic vibrations between an air column and an initiating vibration e.g., a reed or fipple. Perhaps you're trying to avoid sounding too technical. In voice lessons, a singer is taught to use body cavity resonance to enhance the sound quality and power of the vibrations produced by their vocal chords.

@Raj-ym4cu 2 года назад

Superb! 👌🏻 Is it possible to bend in any harmonica? If yes then why do they make special chromatic harmonicas that allow bending?

@richardroysleigh 2 года назад

There are some harmonicas that are almost impossible to bend notes on. Tremelo harmonicas are a good example. Some chromatics are half valved - this means that they don't have valves for all the reeds, and that allows you to bend some of the notes like a blues harp, double reed bends. The standard chromatic harmonica has valves on almost all reeds. This isolates one reed at a time. You can bend a single reed, but it is harder than bending notes in a blues harp with no valves. This topic would take a lot of space to cover completely, but the short answer is the easiest notes to bend on harmonicas are on diatonic harmonicas.

@Raj-ym4cu 2 года назад

@@richardroysleigh Thanks! Over here (in India) we often use a very basic 24 hole chromatic for beginners. It’s very cheap and has no valves. I’ll try on it. Basis what you’ve said, in theory it may work.