Harmonica of the month - May 2015
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#harmonica_of_the_month_5: FAVORITE PowerDraw - half-valvedin A - Closed. Needed 20 orders by May 31, 2015* to start production. Current quantity soldt: 34
This is #5 from this year's series of 12 Harmonicas of the Month!
Please share if you know a person who might be interested.
Die FAVORITE PowerDraw - half-valved in the key of A ...masterful bending!
If you feel familiar with playing in holes 1-6 on Richter diatonic already (or you play our BIG SIX model), the PowerDraw is a good choice for you - master the upper register with ease!
Technical details:
- stainless steel reeds and rivets
- German Silver reedplates
- milled aluminium comb (translucently anodised)
- very stable stainless steel coverplates with 1847 imprint
- PowerDraw tuning note layout and half-valved according to PT Gazell
The PowerDraw is most simple and intuitive for the average player to learn. Here’s how it looks compared to usual Richter tuning:
PowerDraw tuning is easy to learn because:
1. The breathing pattern of holes 1-6 (blow reed low, draw reed high in each hole) is retained all the way up to hole 10 on the PowerDraw. This gives the top octave an instant feeling of familiarity to anyone who tries it, because the techniques and riffs that work so well lower down work up there too! None of that confusion that starts at hole 7 on the Richter.
2. The bulk of the harp (holes 1-6) stays exactly the same, so there is no need to re-learn anything in that meat and potatoes range you’re so accustomed to.
3. Simplified Technique: there are no overdraws needed in the PowerDraw tuning. Two of the most important ‘blue’ notes in 2nd position (the flat third, which was overblow 6) and the flat fifth (overdraw 7) are now simple draw bends – draw 9 is the root in 2nd position.
small: Blues licks in the lower and upper register
4. Every draw note bends from hole 1-4 and 6-10, soulful and easy! In half-valved setup with the user-friendly PT Gazell valves, you can play half step blowbendings in holes 1-10 (after you learned the right embouchure and playing pressure) which give the missing notes of the chromatic scale without the need to use any overbend technique.
small: all bending notes available
5. In case you’d remove the valves on the lower reedplate every hole overblows, and the upper octave overblows are much easier than the overdraws necessary in Richter tuning.
6. PowerDraw works well with the chordal octave-playing approach of tongue blockers. The notes in the top octave are virtually identical to Richter, but the intervals are different. Because the chord splits sound nice and in-key, it is easy to adapt to.
small: chords with tongueblock
7. The PowerDraw works great in other positions too, especially Third (nice useful bends in the top octave), Fifth (good expression in the top end), Second Position Minor (no need to overblow to get the flat 3rd), Eleventh and Twelfth (great expression in the top octave).
You will realize the advantages if you hear/play this tuning in a musical context, e.g. by soloing over a Slow Blues Jamtrack.
The following sound example tries to show the mellow and smooth musical sound can be produced with the hallf-valved PowerDraw (we tried to show specially show the special features of the tuning in the solo):
small: Slow Blues in E
(played by Bertram Becher Shure 545SD high, Delay, Vintage Dist.)
...backing track >here
The #harmonica_of_the_month_5
is available until the end of May 2015 only.
Order now!
*You will be promptly notified and refunded if the minimum order
is not met for production of this offering.
This product is available in the key of A only - if you like to get it in other keys use the SEYDEL >Harmonica Configurator!
You perhaps have a useful tuning variant in your mind or you like to get a harmonica in a special design? Please >send us your ideas and suggestions! Perhaps your desired model will be the #harmonica_of_the_month one day!
This is #5 from this year's series of 12 Harmonicas of the Month!
Please share if you know a person who might be interested.
Die FAVORITE PowerDraw - half-valved in the key of A ...masterful bending!
If you feel familiar with playing in holes 1-6 on Richter diatonic already (or you play our BIG SIX model), the PowerDraw is a good choice for you - master the upper register with ease!
Technical details:
- stainless steel reeds and rivets
- German Silver reedplates
- milled aluminium comb (translucently anodised)
- very stable stainless steel coverplates with 1847 imprint
- PowerDraw tuning note layout and half-valved according to PT Gazell
The PowerDraw is most simple and intuitive for the average player to learn. Here’s how it looks compared to usual Richter tuning:
PowerDraw tuning is easy to learn because:
1. The breathing pattern of holes 1-6 (blow reed low, draw reed high in each hole) is retained all the way up to hole 10 on the PowerDraw. This gives the top octave an instant feeling of familiarity to anyone who tries it, because the techniques and riffs that work so well lower down work up there too! None of that confusion that starts at hole 7 on the Richter.
2. The bulk of the harp (holes 1-6) stays exactly the same, so there is no need to re-learn anything in that meat and potatoes range you’re so accustomed to.
3. Simplified Technique: there are no overdraws needed in the PowerDraw tuning. Two of the most important ‘blue’ notes in 2nd position (the flat third, which was overblow 6) and the flat fifth (overdraw 7) are now simple draw bends – draw 9 is the root in 2nd position.
small: Blues licks in the lower and upper register
4. Every draw note bends from hole 1-4 and 6-10, soulful and easy! In half-valved setup with the user-friendly PT Gazell valves, you can play half step blowbendings in holes 1-10 (after you learned the right embouchure and playing pressure) which give the missing notes of the chromatic scale without the need to use any overbend technique.
small: all bending notes available
5. In case you’d remove the valves on the lower reedplate every hole overblows, and the upper octave overblows are much easier than the overdraws necessary in Richter tuning.
6. PowerDraw works well with the chordal octave-playing approach of tongue blockers. The notes in the top octave are virtually identical to Richter, but the intervals are different. Because the chord splits sound nice and in-key, it is easy to adapt to.
small: chords with tongueblock
7. The PowerDraw works great in other positions too, especially Third (nice useful bends in the top octave), Fifth (good expression in the top end), Second Position Minor (no need to overblow to get the flat 3rd), Eleventh and Twelfth (great expression in the top octave).
You will realize the advantages if you hear/play this tuning in a musical context, e.g. by soloing over a Slow Blues Jamtrack.
The following sound example tries to show the mellow and smooth musical sound can be produced with the hallf-valved PowerDraw (we tried to show specially show the special features of the tuning in the solo):
small: Slow Blues in E
(played by Bertram Becher Shure 545SD high, Delay, Vintage Dist.)
...backing track >here
The #harmonica_of_the_month_5
is available until the end of May 2015 only.
Order now!
*You will be promptly notified and refunded if the minimum order
is not met for production of this offering.
This product is available in the key of A only - if you like to get it in other keys use the SEYDEL >Harmonica Configurator!
You perhaps have a useful tuning variant in your mind or you like to get a harmonica in a special design? Please >send us your ideas and suggestions! Perhaps your desired model will be the #harmonica_of_the_month one day!
