One of the wonderful things about playing blues harmonica is learning how to improvise over a 12 bar blues or some other structure that becomes familiar to us. Improvising is related to being creative, and “being creative” becomes a problem for some people, mostly because they do not believe that

I have always thought that one of the best ways to find out how I am doing in some area is to compare myself to others doing the same thing. I mean, how else do you do this? This just seems like a simple, obvious truth, the way the world

A while ago I made a short post on Harp-L, a great harmonica forum that has been around for quite a few years. Harp-L folks love to argue about things, and for the most part they are very good at expressing their passions without getting into too much of a

Harmonica Mastery Log2 Here is a live excel file for you to use if you have the right software.  I decided to make each square 15 minutes instead of an hour. This gives me a lot more feeling of accomplishment. Please read the Mastery log blog if you don’t know

Template_Mastery_Log Here is a chart you can download that I created for tracking your time when you are learning a skill (like, for instance, playing the harmonica). I have read that it takes about 10,000 hours to truly master an instrument, or master a skill such as writing or painting.

I have always been fascinated by the “inner game” of music or anything in my life that I want to get good at. This has led me over the years to read a ton of books, listen to all sorts of audios and videos and seek out people who can