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…
New year, new stuff. As I mentioned in the last post, I’m raring to go with more harmonica content this year. The first fruit of…
I’ve been wanting to make my own stomp-box for literally years. If you need a quick intro, a stomp-box is just something you can rhythmically…
I prefer to use Zoom if possible for online lessons. It’s available on most platforms and seems to work well for most people. I can…
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…
There is a tendency for beginner players to become fascinated by the seemingly hundreds of different harps available, and the endless minutia of differences between…
I was watching this video of Jerry Portnoy playing with Rick Estrin and the lick at around 1:20 caught my attention. It’s a very cool…
I’ve put together a video briefly describing various ways you can use jam tracks to your advantage. I realised I often advise people to work…
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…