A comprehensive method for the Chromatic Harmonica that treats it like a musical instrument in all respects. For beginning to advanced players, in any style of music, it contains hundreds of exercises to develop technical proficiency in every key, as well as rhythmic awareness and melodic fluency. Exercises are written in musical notation, not tablature. A great, hour-long, play-along CD is included and each track has one version with, and one without, the author playing the tune or exercise. The 147-page book also includes arpeggio studies, scale studies, sight-reading studies, sound production tips, and special harmonica techniques. / Methods

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Children Series : Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Number of pages : 48 Youth Harmonica Method is an exciting harmonica course that teaches reading and playing music for the person looking to study at home or with a school harmonica band. Whether the student stays with the harmonica or moves on to another instrument, the music studies in this book will prepare them for a fruitful lifetime of music making. The recording contains all the music examples with piano accompaniment for the popular melodies and a full size blues band for the Rhythm and Blues songs. The most exciting part of this book is the harmonica band arrangements. Imagine an orchestra of harmonicas playing four and five part harmonies! This book is a natural for school music startup programs and any community based groups that want to introduce music into young peopleâ??s lives.

With Online Audio-As a Harmonica player only 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 Playingteaches the important skill of providing accompaniment on the Harmonica. This volume in the School of the Blues Lesson Series will take you on an exciting journey into the art of traditional blues Harmonicaaccompaniment (playing fills under vocals and chording patterns) as well as modern approaches to playing Horn Organ and Bass lines. Additional studies cover openings breaks and endings. Suitable for the intermediate toadvanced level Harmonica player this book includes access to downloadable online audio tracks featuring all Harmonica parts notated in the book with accompaniment music.

Blues Harmonica Level 2 within the School of the Blues Lesson Series is an exciting intermediate Blues Harmonica course in the tongue block style. The ideas presented are solid in the Blues tradition withgreat sounding exercises and songs to play! Bending and advanced Tongue BlockingThe ideas presented are solid in the Blues tradition with great sounding exercises and songs to play! Bending and advanced TongueBlocking is covered along with three full-length song studies.The recording includes all Harmonica parts notated in the book with accompaniment music. This book and its recording use the'C' and 'A' major diatonicHarmonica. Includes access to online audio.

How good of a musician you become is predicated on how much practice you do and the quality of that practice. In all likelihood you don???t have access to a harmonica teacher (a rare breed) so it???s up to you to identify what will help you grow as a player and how to best spend your valuable practice time. In Daily Exercises for Diatonic Harmonica author David Barrett (the world???s most published author of harmonica lesson material) provides recommendations on how to set up your practice room structure your practice time what to work on to improve your playing and how to prepare you for performance. The Daily Exercises portion of this book provides essential exercises for thediatonic harmonica???movement patterns scales tongue block technique drills an exercise to help you memorize the chords of the 12 Bar Blues your harmonica???s note layout and how to choose a note to match over a given chord at any time in any range of the harmonica. This book and accompanying recording is an essential text for all students of the diatonic harmonica. You'll need a C Major Diatonic Harmonica for this method. Includes access to online audio.