Tip of the week: Sneaking the slide into third position, Part 2

Third position is naturally a minor position. The draw chord formed by Holes 1,2,and 3, Holes 5,6, and 7, and Holes 9,10, and 11 is a minor chord.

The note that makes the chord minor is the third of the chord, found in Draw 2, 4, and 10.

By pressing in the slide on this note, you can make third position sound more major.

You can approach this note with the slide out, and jab it in quickly, the same way you do a tongue slap, but with the slide. Or you can roll into it more slowly.

This slide-in note does not combine well with the holes immediately to the right and left. But it does combine with the slide-in draw note two holes away bot above and below -together they form the 3rd and 7th of a Dominant 7th chord, the most common type of chord in blues.