The
Harmonica Club
of Huntington, WV founded August 2001
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for Beggining Harmonica Borrowed heavily from Jack Mearl Harmonica Country Check it out sometime. Beginners Lessons Lesson 1 How to get one note Lesson 2 Styles, Keys, Layout of Harmonica Lesson 3 How to Use Your Tounguepentatonic minor scale in 5th Lesson 4 Tone Lesson 5 Using Your Hands Lesson 6 Breathing Lesson 7 Bending Notes Lesson 8 Repairing Hamonicas Lesson 9 Robert Johnson Blues 2nd position Lesson 10 The 10 Hour Rule Lesson 11 The 3 Chords of Blues Lesson 12 Minor Scales the 3rd position Intermediate Level Minor Scales once you have the basics in 1st and 2nd position (by Jim Rumbaugh) More on the 3rd position and Minor Scales for diatonic harmonica Practice your 3rd position scales by playing to this jam track of Black Magic Woman in D minor. Use a C harp and start on 4 draw. Black Magic Woman in D minor. 4th position and Minor Scales for diatonic harmonica Practice your 4th position scales by playing to this jam track of Black Magic Woman in D minor. Use a C harp and start on 6 draw. Black Magic Woman in A minor. 5th Position and Minor scales for Diatonic Harmonica Practice your 5thd position scales by playing to this jam track of Black Magic Woman in E minor. Use a C harp and start on 2 blow. Black Magic Woman in E minor. Check out what's offered at HARMONICA.COM You'll find a few good , as well as free tips. There's also lessons you can buy. |
Adam
Gussow Workshop in Huntington WV,
July 29 2008 1hr 45min audio Videos for Learning Here's some great lessons from Gussow and Gindick via YOUTUBE.COM How to play a strong clear note by Gussow The one hole draw by Gussow Get Good Vibrato by Gussow Jon
Gindick Videos
6 Blow Down with Percussion and
I-IV-V Instruction
Put
this valuable scale into muscle memory and then add percussion
and target note selection to make it say and do what you want
it to. If you can't do 6b 5d 4d 4b 3d* 2d as easily as saying
"pass the salt" this lesson will show you why and how to
start.
GRAB A HARP IN THE KEY OF "A" Percussion--Playing over the
Beat
How do you put excitement and emotion into
your music. How do you play fast? Use
breath spaces and articulation to create a three minute solo out
of a well-played 2 draw. This
lesson helps forcefeed more percussion into your style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8I-uYBuaC8
2-5d Blues Split
If you are not adding
"octaves" and "splits" to your harping, you are missing out.
The technique is simply to play out of both sides of your tongue. The
"split" you get at 2-5 draw is one of the bluesiest sounds in all of
harpdom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqOkz8KbAlA
Beginners Tone Lesson
A
7-minute lesson that helps you develop a clear, rich single note
in a way that sets the stage for vibratto and bending. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01c5u-RPvrY
Beginner's Rhythm Lesson
A
six minute lesson that shows you how a metrome can provide
you the steady rythmic accompaniment to
need to feel, play and practice more effectively. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK9J5YElfr8
Beginners Lessons on Improvising
VOLUME I
With
harp and guitar here's a brief but effective beginners guide
to improvising-- which notes always work
with the music, and which don't!
VOLUME II With
harp and guitar, here's a continuation of improvising
with guitar for beginners. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk09ZmaSE-0
Understanding &
Creating the I-IV-V 12 Bar
Blues Progression
This
lesson will show you how to change the last note of a riff to create
either a I, IV, or a V chord. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM9FcVIZEOI
I-IV-V Lesson "Room to Move" Riff
This
lesson does it all, shows you how to use the bends
at 2 draw and 3 draw, and scale degree thought, to
play one of the great harp
licks of all time in a I-IV-V. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNZWS60InM
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