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Dynamics - Part 7

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Mon, 10/18/2010 - 08:00
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Try playing a note starting as softly as you possibly can play the note and slowly increase in volume to as loud as you can play (stopping before possible damage of the instrument ;-) and then slowly decrease the volume until the note disappears. Play your blow notes, draw notes and bends this way to develop both control and the sense of what it takes to play the entire dynamic range of each hole/note on the harmonica. When playing louder do your best to not bend downward in pitch.

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