How To Bend a Note on Harmonica for Beginners

► For the complete free harmonica lesson, and to find the free slow, medium, and fast jam tracks to play along with this lesson, go to: The goal of this video is to help a beginner harmonica player who has never achieved harmonica bending before, to get their first note to bend on harmonica. What is Harmonica Bending / Why learn to bend 0:30 2 Interrelated Techniques of Harmonica Bending 1:18 How Harmonica Bends are Activated 2:09 How Harmonica Bends are Tuned 3:54 Bending Prerequisites 4:30 Let’s Get Your 1st Bend! 5:40 The Airplane Diving 6:10 The Tilt Bend 7:43 Vowels EE-YAW 9:39 Vowels KAH-YOO 10:40 Help from the Bend-it-Better Tool 11:43 Long Train Runnin’ by the Doobie Brothers Lesson 13:30 How to Start a Note from the Bent Position 14:26 Long Train Running by the Doobie Brothers Play-along 16:10 Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple Lesson 16:57 Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple Play-alo