How To Make Your Blues Sound Bluesier | Bending the Overblows and Overdraws

If you love playing Blues on a diatonic harmonica, you might be surprised to find that you can bend more notes than you thought were possible on a standard-tuned harp. In this video, I explain how overblows work, and show you how to bend them to make your Blues even bluesier!

Overblows and Overdraws add 7 notes that can’t be played using standard techniques of blowing, drawing, and bending. And they are also flexible- you can bend them up past their default pitches a little or a lot, depending on how the reeds are adjusted.

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The harmonica I use in this video:
Hohner Golden Melody (Progressive) in C, which I adjusted to get overblows/overdraws to play more easily.

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0:00 Intro and explanation
3:30 Slow Blues in G
6:12 Slow Blues in C
9:50 Slow Blues in Dm