I’m fortunate that I get to help people take their first steps on the harmonica. For some folks this has been a lifelong ambition, and…
I’m ridiculously excited. Due to some fortunate circumstances my wife and I have the opportunity to visit San Francisco next June. A jaunt that would…
Two fantastic harmonica album releases today from two very different players. If you’ve spent any time at all with me talking harmonica you’ll know about…
Back in 2010 (y’know, the olden days) Joe Filisko, David Barrett and others put together a concert charting the evolution of blues harmonica form the…
I’ve written a brief primer on the notes on your harmonica and how they work in the first three positions. It examines major scales for…
This is hugely exciting. I’ve mentioned Grant Dermody here before. Easily one of my favourite living harmonica players. Primarily acoustic, his style is heavily reliant…
I was asked recently if I could help someone learn some of Bruce Springsteen’s harmonica parts. Here’s a quick run through the intro to The…
In the last post we looked at how to build a chord and how we can refer to them based on their scale degrees. We…
A chord is simply a certain number of notes played at the same time. Guitar players do this by strumming, piano players hold down several…
A little while ago I started putting together a YouTube playlist of favourite harmonica performances to share with students as inspiration and introduce new players…