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This book is meant to take an instrument and musical styleand teach it to the people who made it so popular, the blues listening public. A comprehensive lesson and study book for the intermediate and advanced diatonic harmonica player, Classic Chicago Blues Harp presents techniques, progressive examples...

Improvising Blues Harmonica, by authors David Barrett and John Garcia, is a groundbreaking method explaining the mysterious world of improvising. This book and recording cover: chorus forms; what licks, riffs, melodies and phrases are made of; scale and chord theory; concepts for soloing (focus notes);...

Blues Harmonica Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting beginning blues harmonica course. The ideas presented are solid in the blues tradition with great sounding bluesy licks to play, even at the beginning level! Phrasing Concepts (how small pieces of music, called licks,...

Upon completion of this book, you will understand the principle and techniques utilized in the creation of phrases and how to incorporate these concepts into your own harmonica performance. Includes access to online audio that contains jam tracks for incorporating new licks and ideas. Notation and harmonica tablature.

Blues Harmonica Level 2, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exiting intermediate Blues harmonica course in the tongue block style. The ideas presented are solid in the Blues tradition with great sounding exercises and songs to play! Bending and advanced Tongue Blocking are covered...

Classic Chicago Blues Harp #2 follows book/CD #1 and is a progressive lesson book that walks you step-by-step from the intermediate stages of playing the harmonica to the very advanced. This lesson book is the main backbone to the Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Series. Classic Chicago Blues Harp takes...

An exciting beginning blues harmonica course! The ideas presented are solidly in the blues tradition with great sounding bluesy licks to play, even at the beginning level! Topics include Phrasing Concepts (how small pieces of music, called licks, are organized to create a pleasing solo), 12 Bar Blues...

Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues- Lesson Series, presents 46 bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. This book is accompanied by audio available for download online of all examples (played by author...

Learn to read music, play popular songs and be part of an ensemble. For home study, senior wellness classes and better breathers groups. Specially designed lessons and information for those with COPD and related pulmonary diseases. Includes access to online audio of each example in the book.

Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing & jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba,...

This book covers the most common scales and modes used on the entire Lee Oskar Harmonica System. There are extensive exercises that help develop your agility and speed on the instrument. Includes access to online audio.

This book is meant to give you a jump-start in playing blues harmonica.You will find there are both easy and difficult techniques on the harmonica. Due to the nature and length of this book, and to avoid repetition of sections of other books by the same author- some of the more commonplace blues harmonica...

Around twenty percent of your playing time on the bandstand is spent soloing- have you studied how to play during the other eighty percent? Blues Harmonica Accompaniment Playing, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting journey into the art of traditional blues harmonica accompaniment...

The Gig Savers series has been designed to provide harmonica players with answers to common questions in a concise, user-friendly fashion. This complete edition is comprised of six books written by David Barrett and Fritz Hasenpusch. Part One, "Essential Theory", covers the main body of...