While the rest of the world has gone into overdrive with instruction videos, live-streamed gigs and the rest of it, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
Struggling through chorus 4 and 5 of David Barrett’s Cool Blue. Progress is slow but it’s coming together. With any luck, the next video will…
Here’s the latest on my chromatic journey. I’m tackling the first two choruses of David Barrett’s Cool Blue. Some new tasty licks and even a…
Great article here – supported by copious recordings – by Seth Shumate. One In Every Pocket: The Rise of Harmonica on Old Time Music. The…
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.…
Part five of the Chromatic Chronicles series in which I apply David Barrett’s chorus form concept to lick from the study song No Sweat. Please…
Here’s part four of The Chromatic Chronicles in which I attempt to play the first chromatic study song “No Sweat” from www.bluesharmonica.com. I get there…
Here’s part three of the Chromatic Chronicles. I’m starting to properly explore the first five holes following David Barrett’s first Chromatic Study lesson on bluesharmonica.com.
The chromatic harmonica has always been a huge blind spot for me. I’ve always been curious but it seemed a like one of those “not…
I’ve made a short video on a technique I like to call “The Gob Wobble” (I dunno if there’s a catchy name for this technique…