What is bad harmonica playing?

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A blues harmonica pro offers quick answers to common questions about the instrument. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica.

NOTE FOR HARMONICA NERDS: I shaded the truth slightly is in the matter of the difference between bending down the 3 draw and bending down 1, 2, 4, and 6 draw. I said that in the case of the 1, 2, and 4, you get a blue note when you bend down the note as far as possible. That's true for the most part, and especially with the 1 and 4, but it elides the fact that if one is shooting for the piano-pitch, one doesn't in fact hit each of those bends as hard as possible. One hits each of them very hard, and certainly much harder than one should hit the 3 draw, but not as hard as possible.

Also, the 6 draw bent all the way down is actually a flat 9th (or a few cents under that pitch), which is the same as the 3 draw bent all the way down. So the 6 draw bend is less relevant to the present conversation.

The main point of this video remains valid: the 3 draw bend, if you're shooting for a blues pitch, functions very differently than the 1, 2, and 4 draw bends. A hard bend on 3 draw isn't a blues-scale pitch; a hard bend on the 1, 2, and 4 IS a blues-scale pitch, although it helps if you make some fine adjustments, hitting each of those bent notes a shade less than full-on.