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Lesson Series Level 1

First Lessons Blues Harmonica Book/CD or Book/CD/DVD

Price: $7.95 (Book/CD) Purchase
           $14.95 (Book/CD/DVD) Purchase
Pages: 32 Pages
Level: Beginning

Description: First Lessons Blues Harmonica is an exiting 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, are organized to create a pleasing solo), 12 Bar Blues Theory, Vibrato, Shakes, Tongue Blocking are covered.  Recording includes all harmonica parts notated in the book with accompaniment music.  This book and its recording use a C major diatonic harmonica. Note that the DVD package shows the major techniques taught in the book as well as instruction on bending and further detail on tongue blocking.  A real value!



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DVD recording includes instruction on holding, embouchure (placing your lips on the harmonica), tongue blocking and bending. This book and its recording use a C major diatonic harmonica.

Student Comments:
“Finally, I think I have the right book in front of me. I just ordered the whole 'beginners set' from Harmonica Masterclass. I've only started on "First Lessons Blues Harmonica Book/CD", but wow! Dave Barrett skips right to playing along with 12-bar segments, even avoiding 2-draws at first to make it easy on real beginners. Playing along with these segments is fun...I'm actually moving with the beat and sensing when I should come in. The instruction material is almost spartan, but he makes what you are supposed to do clear (unlike the Instant Piano guy on PBS that takes half an hour to get to the revelation that the left hand plays chords and the right plays the melody).

The lessons explain different phrasing styles of blues, giving some structure to learn how to jam later on. And the lessons do get more complicated, but they don't look hard. The fact is that they are lessons, that you can jump right in and practice with, and so I've found a new commitment to really practice, not just noodle. It finally ends with a whole song to jam thru, given all the notes to play. Being able to play this song is a goal for me, a mark of achievement.”

Dave Jung


 

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