Last weekend I enjoyed playing a few songs with one of my favourite guitar players, David Broad. David has been playing fingerpicking guitar all over…
A few weeks ago one of my students shared a tip he’d been using to help him read and memorise licks. Norm lives in Western…
Like pretty much everything this year, plans for the annual Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH) conference were thrown into turmoil…
We are living in a golden age of harmonica teaching. I know I bang on about Joe Filisko a lot (and posted a link to…
I’m very late to the party with this one, but just in case you haven’t seen it yet I thought it worth a plug. Tomlin…
Great footage here from a 1972 interview with Sonny Terry. He’s talking quite openly about his playing and hand technique etc. Super stuff. I can’t…
Sometimes I get asked about custom harmonicas. What makes them custom? Will they help me play better? Do I need one? and so on. Happily,…
I’ve written a little guide to practicing effectively called Practicing for Success. I say “little”, but as usual with this sort of thing it started…
This is priceless. Over an hour of music and harp talk from two of the greatest players alive today. There’s a lot of wisdom here.…
About a decade ago, after years of dabbling, I got serious about playing harmonica. I started watching YouTube videos, I bought a couple of Barrett’s…