I watched “The Wizard of OZ” once a year for close to a decade when I was growing up. It is one of the great American mythological stories, at least it is for me…. It was only a matter of time till I tried my hand (and mouth) at tackling
Category: Music – Instruction
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The harmonica tab below is for a standard 10 hole diatonic harmonica in richter tuning. Below the tab is a Youtube video of a woman named “Nozie” playing the tune on a big piano accordion. If you want to follow her on harmonica using the tab below, grab a C
Why do you play music? Why do you play the harmonica? I like to ask myself these questions from time to time, and the answers keep changing. What is it about music that is so compelling? I have had one insight lately that keeps asking me to get it down,
I have gotten a variety of responses to the rhythm exercise idea, ranging from “I don’t need this.” to “Wow! this is realy cool!”. I also got enough questions about exactly what to do that I will describe it again as clearly as I can. You sit and cross your
Today I have a very simple exercise that you can try with someone who claims that they can’t keep a beat. Or someone who can’t keep a beat, but they don’t know it. Or someone who is trying to learn a new and tricky rhythm. I will get into why
I just got an email from a slightly nervous new customer. He just got his custom harmonicas and did not want to play them in a way that would damage them. His question was: what is the best way to break in a custom harmonica? I don’t believe you need
I tried using a metronome many years ago. I did it out of a vague sense of duty. That somehow it was good for me I bought a mechanical metronome called a Mini-Taktell. I never liked it . It seemed cold and heartless. Then I found out the metronome was
Whoever said practice makes perfect got it partially right. Practice the wrong things or practice the right things in a sloppy way and you will never make “perfect” no matter how much you practice. This gives us two questions to answer about practice: 1. What? 2. How? Let’s start with
That is the current name of my instructional CDs that include my favorite warm-ups and chop builders for the diatonic harmonica. For people who bought my CDs, and for anyone curious about them, here are the instructions in the current form. I am doing a lot of revisions and additions