We’ve been working this traditional gospel tune up as a High Hollers number but I think it works quite well as a solo harmonica piece…
This morning I’ve rebuilt an old Special 20 of mine for a student. A multitude of issues can be solved by simply disassembling, cleaning and…
Grant Dermody is absolutely one of my favourite living harmonica players and – by all accounts – fine gentleman. I’ve watched this clip with Frank…
Last time we defined the major scale and discussed how it’s built. Now we’re going to add another way of thinking about and referring to…
There’s a great article form Richard Sleigh in the latest issue of Harmonica World magazine on the music notation used by David Barrett in his…
Last time we looked at the chromatic scale and learned that this scale contains all the notes available. Here’s the piano keyboard again for reference.…
Okay then. First things first. Music, as you already know I’m sure, is made up of playing a series of notes. Notes organised together in…
Music theory is intimidating for a lot of new players but that’s usually down to misconceptions. Although it can appear arcane, stuffy and overly formalised…
Last week, a day earlier than I was expecting, I received a package from Cain Hamilton (aka Sugar Cain) containing this, one of the first…
I’ve been going through something of a Big Walter phase (obsession) for some time now. The man had giant tone like nobody else and a…