Auto Valve Blues in A

Richard Show how the auto valve harp can create a style of blues that is based on the single row button accordion. A great way to expand your blues playing on any diatonic harmonica.

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Music

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• Harmonica
• Auto
• Valve
• Blues
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• Peter
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• Richard
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[rsleighharp]

hello pintospot,

Thanks for your comments!

I just made that blues up.... If you start playing blues bass lines and playing around with the ideas you like in this piece, you will find your own version of a blues on the auto valve. And when you play blues on a standard blues harp with bent notes, you will have a whole new world of things to play besides the usual bendy blues licks!

[barberof1965]

Hi Richard, I once had an auto-valve years ago. I plan to purchase another.

What is the best key to buy...standerd c or d like you have? Thank you, Rich

[rsleighharp]

Buy the D it is like a low D with the high D on top

The C is like a regular C with an extra high C on top - the high end is really squeaky....

[rsleighharp]

The auto valve in D is like a low D - The C auto valve is like a standard range C, which means the high reeds are super high. Actually, the #10 reed in the high reed plate is a pretend reed - it does not work, and is just there to fill up the space. Bottom line - you can get more tone out of the top end of a lo D Auto valve. Thanks for subscribing! -R

[casu3]

@pintospot this sound a lot like the boogie lick whit his own modyfications

[casu3]

@rsleighharp are these harps cost more money than a regular diatonic??

[davbaia]

Hello Richard, i'm curious about the Auto valve in G. Do you have one? Is it adapted for cajun music? Can you show how it sounds? Great videos. Cheers.

[evsynator]

Excellent ..... I am thinking about getting one of these and this demo has really helped . Great for a cajun sound . I already have blues harps - but the sound I want is the one here . Thanks for the post .

[munkamonka]

coool :)

thank you for the inspiration.

[frogafone]

I like to use my AutoValves to do multi octave riffs or to do a call and answer with mice elf from one octave to another.. by blocking off one row of holes and playing just one at a time.. , then the other.

they are also good simply for volume when playing unmiked espec out of doors with a lot of flattop box bangers and banjos

[OtisSpain]

I'm thinking of buying some of these harps actually (but maybe I'll never learn to do tongue blocking well if I do!). Could you please post some more examples on it, like Cajun music and such? Thanks a lot for this and for all the great work! ♫ ♪ ♫