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@scott4

Here is a riff I practice to try to get a bend quickly. 6 -4 5 -3 -2 -3B -3 with the bend played as quickly as possible and letting go of it for the last note.

Hi @scott4 and everyone else,

I found the following link that probably 90% of the forum members could benefit from its regular use to practice and refine their bending skills in holes 1-4. Be sure to read it and the several replies from @Luke that are in that little thread:

Slightly More Advanced Warm-Up Exercise

Hi everyone! Simply playing the major scale of your harmonica’s key (for example the C Major scale for a C diatonic blues harp) is actually a pretty good warm up as well as being a good way to practice the -2" (hole 2 draw full-step bend) and -3" (ditto for hole 3). Why? Because most people can hear whether or not they are accurately hitting the proper tone frequencies (and if they are not sure then they can always compare the tones they are playing with the ones you can produce online using a …