Blues harmonica collection pdf

For players of all levels, a comprehensive tuneup that will deepen your tone, strengthen your chops, and give you the tools you need to develop a rich, resonant vibrato. Please check out the preview on the webpage below, and note that there is NO tab sheet for this lesson. It's all about tone:. I talk about mics, cupping techniques, speaker cone size, even and odd harmonics, solid state vs.

Using my collection of vintage Fender, Premier, and Kay amps as evidence, I explain the magic of small-magnet speakers and show you the way in which speaker configuration affects the amp's sound and playability. Every amp has an ideal operating range, above which it feeds back but below which it refuses to sing; I show you how to dial this in. I blow harp over Charlie's guitar on the first track.

They are good, solid tabs and will greatly ease your journey towards mastering the harp part on both cuts. Wayne is the only "outside" tabber I feature at Modern Blues Harmonica. Overblowing is an advanced technique that is just beginning to make its presence felt in the world of blues harmonica. Jazzman Howard Levy showed us the way back in the 's, but few blues players followed his lead.

Carlos del Junco was one; I was another. Both of us were actively deploying overblows in blues contexts by Chris Michalek followed soon after. These days, Jason Ricci is the foremost exponent of the overblowing approach in an amplified context, and younger players such as R. Harman and Jay Gaunt make it clear that the technique is here to stay as o ne key element of a contemporary blues harmonica style. If you're looking to investigate the world of overblowing from a blues player's perspective, then this zip file is the high-octane fuel you need.

This collection gives you a focused lesson--video and tab s --on five songs. One of them "Sunday Drive" is straight ahead amped-up blues; three are jazzy blues variants "Blue Monk," "Watermelon Man," "Tenor Madness" , and one is a jazz standard "St. If you were my private student and you showed up for your first lesson with a harmonica that you'd just purchased or that somebody had just given you , I'd spend most of our first hour together showing you the basics: How the harmonica is put together; how to hold the harp; how to play single notes; how to play your first scale; and how to troubleshoot several basic problems that raw beginners always confront.

Please hit the link below and check out the free preview on the upper left side of the Tradebit product page :. During my two decades of harp teaching in New York City, this is the song I always gave beginners in Lesson 1. This will give you the basic techniques needed for superior blues harmonica playing. Harp: C Video: www. In response to popular demand, I've done my best to demystify the bar blues format and help you navigate your way through a foundational experience.

This lesson contains one video and two FREE tab sheets! Harp key: C video: www. Harp key: C Video: www. This song carries a boogie-woogie line through the changes and offers workable technical challenges for developing players, with a focus on tongued articulations and the incorporation of chord rhythms into a continuing melodic structure. Like "Bittersweet Boogie" above , this is an excellent workout for developing players who don't bend much or at all and want to play something that is recognizably a blues.

Good synthesis of single note melodies and chord rhythms. Serious blues harp begins here. Double-stops are worth mastering, and this song is a vigorous double-stop workout. Some may remember this as the theme song to "Sesame Street. This video focuses on a two-page tab; the first page is one that beginners can handle--it'll get you rocking--but the second page is solidly in the advanced beginner category.

Harp key: A Video: www. This video offers a wealth of tips, metaphors, and suggestions to get you bending and bending well. There's also a series of eight exercises that help you consolidate and expand the technique. Please note: Bending requires a fairly well-developed ability fo play clear, leak-free single notes.

This video will get you where you need to go. Harp key: A and C Video: www. The 3 draw bend--several different bends, actually--is more challenging than 4 draw and 2 draw. Gussow helps you extract the deep bluesy sound that lies buried in the harp; he uses a guitar to explain exactly which pitches you're trying for and where they're located.

This should be part of every blues harmonica player's armory, since you never know when the band will throw you a curveball. This zip file includes one QuickTime video plus one jam track in the key of G. There is NO tab sheet with this lesson. Harp: C. Harp key: C. Harp: A Video: www.

A jump-up country-style guitar-and-harmonica blues by Dr. Isaiah Ross. This is deep, soulful, one-chord vamp from the river bottom. Lots of 4 draw and syncopation, with a neat 5 draw quarter-tone bend. Slim Harpo's swamp blues. Nothing very fast here, but 2 and 3 draw bends and some tricky timing will challenge developing players.

Can be played lip-pursed or tongue-blocked. No bends here, just lots of swing timing. I notate two slightly different versions, both of them recorded by Muddy Waters, since good harp players should know how to play both. Harp key: A. An original composition that breaks open the upper octave and make it available for further exploration. Please check out the free preview available on either Tradebit page below! Video: www.

Play it fast or slow--it always swings. King and Muddy Waters. Most blues harp instructional methods let bars 11 and 12 of the bar blues fall by the wayside after offering you a couple of standard turnarounds. I blow the doors off with 11 variations, ranging from easy to challenging.

Check out the preview at tradebit. A two-chorus head, adapted for blues harp. I've played this one at dozens of jam sessions. For blues harmonica players looking to broaden their range within an urban blues idiom, this riff-based head, a Memphis classic, is a perfect next step. Neither a shuffle nor a two-beat, it's a funky blues cha-cha. Technical challenges include a range of 2 and 3 draw bends and that cha-cha chord rhythm. Nothing too wild; perfect for an intermediate player.

This is THE perennial favorite bar-band instrumental, and it happens to lie well on the harmonica in cross position, although the back-and-forth movement between 2 and 3 draw bends makes it a challenge. The diminished chord on the breakaway gives it a special sizzle. I used to play this one on the street. Organist Jimmy Smith's groove-jazz classic, a bar blues that's been recorded by everybody, including Charlie Musselwhite and Pinetop Perkins.

This is one tune you DO need to master if you're planning to play jam sessions and pickup gigs. What most players don't realize is that there are three different kinds of 8-bar blues. This lesson explains all that, using recorded examples from 14 blues songs by players like Little Walter, Sonny Terry, and Otis Spann. The blues-rock standard by s British power-trio Cream. This rendering closely tracks the version on Gussow's debut solo album, Kick and Stomp.

A couple of overblows, but there's an easy workaround in the video and tab for players who don't overblow. Gussow shows you how to transform this VERY square tune into a jazz standard. Harp: C first position Video: www. Check out the preview. Not a blues, but a bluesy, gospely, soul-jazz standard, composed by keyboardist Joe Zawinul for the Canonball Adderly Band. If you've never heard it, check out the preview:.

Harp: D Video: www. Harp: B-flat Video: www. Check out the previews. This is an original composition that finds inspiration in the playing of Deford Bailey, Freeman Stowers, and other recording artists of the s and s. Not the same old first-position blues! Harp: A. If you've ever wanted to master his style--or simply bring a little of his flavor into what you do--this is the place to start. PDF and audio - the best for learning as you can hear the music and see the notation and tabs as well.

Audio only. Stereo mp3s of each track with the band on the right and the harmonica on the left - change the balance to suit you.

This easy-to-learn package will teach you how to play amazing blues riffs. The second book, Another Blues Riffs, focuses on riffs that are used in the different parts of the bar blues. This answers such questions as: How do you start a blues? How do you end a song clearly?

Which riffs work really well on the five chord? How do you play a turnaround riff? You will learn how to play hundreds of riffs which will enable you to play the blues and sound really good in a band or to your music at home, or at your local jam session. Lastly, in 50 Awesome Blues Riffs, we show you how to make your playing outstanding.

These riffs are quite challenging but will set you above the other harmonica players in the jam! Just added to your cart.

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