How to Achieve Valved Bends and Integrate Them into Songs

PT Gazell is a master of the diatonic harmonica who spent years as a sought-after session player and sideman in Nashville before half valving changed the way he plays. In this course he shows you how to get valved bends clean and in tune, then how to use them as a musical voice rather than a trick.

You'll refine your bending technique through a set of hands-on exercises with downloadable PDFs, explore the emotional shading the Gazell method opens up, and learn to play in 5th position minor as an alternative to 3rd position minor. To put it into a real musical context you'll work a valve blow bend into the melody of "My Romance" and learn the jazz blues tune "Sugar", head and solo. You'll need a Gazell Method key of Ab half-valved harmonica to play along.