Foundations for Jazz. Learn to play the chromatic harmonica! This method will help you to develop the foundations of technique and tone on the instrument, along with sight-reading. You will learn scale/chord construction and licks used in jazz, blues, pop, and other styles. Music examples include both traditional notation and a simplified harmonica tablature to help you find notes while you are learning the instrument's layout. Online audio includes demonstration and play-along tracks.

Stuff All the Pros Know and Use-Ready to take your Harmonica playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that Harmonica players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying audio tracks provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: techniques position playing soloing accompaniment the blues equipment performance maintenance and much more!

Licks for Blues Harmonica-A fascinating insight into the harmonica styles of Little Walter Jacobs and Big Walter Horton with particular emphasis on their inventive licks and their astonishing musicality. Includes audio CD with demonstration tracks.

This songbook is an excellent supplement to the FastTrack Harmonica Method Book 1. It features 8 complete songs plus access to downloadable audio tracks so you can hear the music and play along when you're ready.Includes: Back at the Chicken Shack (Charlie Musslewhite) · Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan) · I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters) · Love Me Do (The Beatles) · Miss You (Rolling Stones) · Piano Man (Billy Joel) · Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) · You Really Got Me (The Kinks). Also available: HLE00695407Harmonica Method Book 1

The Hal Leonard Melodica Method is designed for anyone interested in learning the basics of playing the melodica. This easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to everything needed to begin playing with proper technique. It's filled with helpful diagrams and photographs and uses folk tunes that students can learn as they work their way through the book. Topics covered include: mouthpiece techniques, breathing, chords, rhythms, improvising, vibrato, trills, and glissando technique. Includes 90 audio tracks with demonstrations of every song in the book! / Piano / Hal Leonard

The blanket term 'rock' is used to describe a musical genre that covers over six decades of musical diversity. The question for this book is, What does rock mean to harmonica players? This book is for harmonica players who have a basic grasp of the instrument and are looking to study the rock style in greater detail. You'll learn greater control of bends; speed licks; high-end licks; how to play bluesy notes and textures; how to play and construct hooks; how to deal with and play over the common chord progressions used in rock; and, music theory relative to playing rock harmonica. Concepts are presented through original tunes as well as staples of rock harmonica repertoire such as Magic Dick's Whammer Jammer!. 68 pages, audio included. Contents: Introduction - What is Rock Harmonica? Harmonicas Needed Chapter 1 - A Word about Notation and Embouchure Chapter 2 - Bending What Notes Can Be Bent Bending Exercises Chapter 3 - Scales for Improvising Major Pentatonic Scale Blues Scale Context

La série FastTrack? propose une autre façon d'apprendre à jouer d'un instrument. D'une utilisation facile et conviviale, les méthodes FastTrack? vous expliquent les choses sur un ton différent de celui d'un professeur, plutôt à la manière d'un ami. Chaque volume contient de nombreux exercices et d'excellentes chansons avec les accompagnements sur compact disc, car rien ne vaut l'écoute pour une bonne compréhension des concepts et le jeu accompagné d'un groupe professionnel pour progresser rapidement. En plus, la dernière partie de toutes les méthodes FastTrack? propose les mêmes morceaux pour vous permettre de former un groupe avec vos amis jouant d'un autre instrument et de faire une jam-session ! / Harmonica

Par . The Rockschool Harmonica Method books are a great way to introduce contemporary harmonica skills to students who are new to the instrument. These books support the progression into the Graded Music system and will prepare readers for a lifelong journey into playing and enjoying music. The Rockschool Harmonica Method Debut Book takes students from Rockschool?s Premiere to Debut grade levels. ? 12 progressive topics ? Newly composed exercises, games