Hi, there! I just wanted to give you a really fantastic riff that we will look into later in greater detail. You'll find it in a blues jam factory book, and you'll also find it in blues level 2. But I thought, just at this stage where we've
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we've done the ha! Ha! Hoo-hoo! And before we get on to the chugging and the train sounds which use the tongue, I want to give you one more thing which doesn't use the tongue, so it's
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ha! Ha! Ha! That's the rhythm. 1, 2, 3! Ha! Ha! Clap it with me! 1, 2, 3! It's going to be lovely sunset tonight. I think
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it's gonna be great. 1, 2, 3 ha, ha, ha!
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And what you're doing with the harmonica is you're going in out.
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Write it down if you want in, out and then out in.
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and you're just using the bottom.
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2 or 3 holes of the harmonica holes, one and 2 hole 3 as well if you want to.
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so holds one and 2, or 1, 2, 3, if you want to, and you're breathing in, out
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and then out in you reverse it.
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It's pretty easy, isn't it?
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So let's just practice it without the harmonica, one to 3 in, out, out, in 2,
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3 in, out, out in to say it with me. 2,
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3 in, out, out in 2, 3.
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So now we're just without the harmonica.
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2, 3 in, out, out in 2, 3, 2, 3.
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Now, I don't use so much air, because it makes me cough when I'm playing.
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but this is just to demonstrate it. So it's in out and then out in.
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Try it with me. Why, 2, 3, 2, 3
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and a 2 and a 3, 2 to 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3
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you might detect. Sometimes I put a middle one in between, the in, out and the out in just a little touch of a middle one, simply because my breath wants to go the other way.
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But I need to concentrate on hitting
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da da the second and the last of those 2 things.
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So that's where the beat is. So it doesn't matter whatever else you put in. But let's just go
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in out out in.
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Now. This is a very famous and useful Riff. A little repeating phrase, probably most common one is the hoochie coochie man, which is what we're going to use today.
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So Muddy Water's hoochie, coochie man, or anybody else's. Hoochie, coochie man! This Riff runs throughout it also. Mannish boy! I'm a man. And then things like
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Sonny Williamson's don't start me talking while he's
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talking about the story. It's just went down to the market.
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Get myself something a haircut, rounded, funny mouth and da-da-da da da da, she told him a story.
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you black in the right, etc. So it's a storytelling, gimmick, gypsy woman told my mother
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before I was born. You'll see this. It's coming up, so play along with me. Here we go.
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Let's see if we can.
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2, 3,
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2, 3,
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before I was born, 3 in, out, out in. You got a boy child's coming in out, out in. He gonna be a son of a gun in, out, out, in! He gonna make pretty women
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jump and shout.
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Then the world wanna know what that's all about.
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You can keep going.
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We're into the chorus, really, as you can see from the top. If you look at the top you'll see it.
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I don't know who Jacuja man everybody knows.
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2, 3, 2, 3.
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I got a black cambone.
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I got a mojo, too.
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Oh, fella, John the conqueror!
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I got to mess with you.
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I'm gonna make you, girl.
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I just went on to playing single notes, so I don't recommend you do this at the moment, or you can have a stab if you want to. But we're not really focusing on single note playing right now we're trying to focus on chords and rhythms and breathing but the single notes I was playing there was 2 draw
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which you can have a go at if you want to, and then 4 blow.
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Write this down if you want to draw 4 blow, and then 3 and 4 together, draw
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to give it that bluesy sort of dirt that crunch, and then to draw again.
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So it's 4 things to draw 4 blow.
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and that's the same as in out.
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I mean, it's not the same, but it fits in to the same
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bit of music, and it works well as an alternative.
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And then the last bit is out in. So it's
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3 and 4 together, breathing in, and then 2 draw breathing in.
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That's I think that's all we're going to do with it, so
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I'll maybe play some alternatives to it with single notes. But really, just for you, I'd say, just focus on.
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It's not very difficult to play, but the difficult bit is getting it in the right place and sticking to it and keeping it in the right place. So I think that's enough to focus on. Let's keep going with the track. Here we go. So just join in
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in a world I know I'm the luchi coaching.
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Everybody knows.
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Check what! You're back.
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Whoa!
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On a 7 h on a 7 day, on a 7 month.
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The 7 doctors say you were born for good luck, and that you will see
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I got $700.
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Ow, everybody knows.
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T,
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okay, so I'm messing around a little bit at the end. But for you, I think. Just do that, and that'll work. This is a song in the key of G.
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We're playing it on a C. Harmonica. We're actually playing in second position. You don't necessarily need to know that. But if you inhabit this song and inhabit this idea of
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doing this stuff and playing in the key of G on a C. Harmonica, and then later, you can define it as that second position. Folks
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who knew you were playing in second position all along. We used second position, mostly for bluesy stuff.
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at least at the initial stages. Okay, hope you enjoyed that little lesson there and let me know if it's helped. Okay, thanks a lot. See you later.
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