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…
Been threatening to do this for a while. It’s time to expose myself! The majority of teaching I do involves shepherding people through David Barrett’s…
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…
I was putting this together for myself then realised it would be a useful addition to the resources page. Scale degrees for 2nd-position 12-bar blues.…
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…
I’ve put together a PDF of easy Christmas songs for Harmonica. It’s in the same format as my Folk Tunes PDF. This has actually been…
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…
During the last few weeks I’ve put a huge amount of time into writing an “introduction” to harp mics. As usually happens, something I think…