Today I have some ideas for you that can help take the fear out of taking solos on stage with a band. Believe me, I’ve crashed and burned plenty of times when taking solos. Here is one thing I’ve learned: you can get over it. And if you spend a
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This video is part of a series I am putting together leading up to the Blues Harmonica Summit I am doing with Dennis Gruenling and Ronnie Shellist on November 11th. More details are at: https://www.harmonica123.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Picture what your life would be like if you could not read the words you are now reading. It’s hard to imagine, right? Reading words gives you the power to sift through thousands of ideas in a fraction of the time it would take you if you were learning them
The strange magic of the blues harmonica has a lot to do with the way you can make it cry by bending notes. The way the little metal harmonica reeds respond to your breath creates a new voice, part machine and part flesh and blood. There are two main ways
Yesterday I was reminded of a practice strategy that i think you will find very useful. One of the names for my website is Harmonica Mastery Tools, and this morning I was struck by the way you can use thoughts as tools. I’ve been doing something I stubbornly call “Musical
If you never heard of D. H. “Bert” Bilbro, I’d like to introduce you to one of the most fascinating harmonica players I have ever heard. In 1928 Bert recorded a steam train imitation on the harmonica that was done in one take, that at times sounds like two
I’ve been re-reading Stephen Pressfields book “Going Pro”, and he tells this story about how Rosanne Cash had this disturbing dream about trying to join a conversation with Bonnie Raitt and some guy named Art, and Art dismissed her as a dilettante… This dream kept haunting Rosanne, and caused her
“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” You can take what you already know, tighten up the timing, clear out some space here and there to create tension, hit accents like you mean it, and BOOM! you catch on fire, your friends won’t know what got
What you are looking at above is a photo of my new improved practice space. My goal is to do a short practice that uses: A time limit (7 minutes) Focus on one thing (the tab on the page in the practice journal) A metronome (using the metronome for the
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