Hi guys welcome to Tune Basics the series that teaches you how to play the basics
today we'll be revisiting that famous Italian folk song Bella Ciao and how to play it on a
diatonic harmonica but in this tutorial we'll be using bends and i'll be showing you how to play it
on the lower part of your harmonica now if you don't know how to do bends i've put some links
in the description below for some great bending tutorials let's take a close look at phrase one
blow into two breathe in through three and bend the note to produce the A
breathe in through three to produce the B blow into four
and breathe into three and bend the note to produce A
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
for Phrase Two blow into two
breathe in through three and bend the note to produce A twice
breathe in through three to produce the B
blow into four
and breathe into three and bend the note to produce A
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
For
Phrase three blow into two
breathe in through three and bend the note to produce the A breathe in
through three to produce the B
blow into four
breathe in through three to produce the B
breathe in through three and bend the note to produce A blow into four
breathe in through three to produce the B
breathe in through three and bend the note to produce A
and blow into five three times
and practice this until you end up with something
that sounds like this for phrase four blow into five
breathe in through four
blow into five
and breathe in through five twice
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
for phrase five breathe in through five
blow into five twice
breathe in through four
blow into five
and blow into four
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
for phrase six blow into four three times
breathe in through three to produce the B
blow into five
blow into four
breathe in through three to produce the B
and breathe in through three and bend the note to produce A
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
now try putting all the phrases together
and there you have it
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