With this complete, clear instruction method, you'll learn to choose a harp, play cross position, and bend notes while playing in the styles of blues greats like Sonny Terry, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, and others. It also includes chapters on lead and accompaniment, performing, amplified harp, history, and much more.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still a winner after 30 years,
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This review is from: Blues Harp (Paperback)
I used this book as a teen to learn Blues Harp, that was, sad to say, 30 years ago. The experience of learning with this book was a lot of fun, still remembered clearly, and effective, I still play and enjoy it.You want to learn Blues Harp (of course, you do), get this book. Can't miss.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
buy it for because it's an oldie but goodie, not to learn harmonica,
By Redgecko (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blues Harp (Paperback)
Like many, this was the first harmonica book that I owned and bought it because it was the only harmonica instruction available back in 1965 when it was first published. The book is filled with errors which they didn't bother to correct in this 2008 reprint (see patmissin website to see what they are). Also, there were floppy vinyl recordings that came with some editions of the book that aren't included here.There is much better instruction available today--look to Portnoy, Barrett, Gindick and Duncan books if you're serious about learning diatonic harmonica out of a book. YouTube also has some good instruction.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE classic instructional text, for a reason,
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This review is from: Blues Harp (Paperback)
As a 16-year-old in the fall of 1974, determined to learn how to play blues harmonica, I stumbled across this book purely by chance in the local mall. I picked it up along with my first Hohner Marine Band harmonica. Now, almost 40 years later, as a pro player and teacher, I'm still in awe of Glover's achievement. He may not get every single lick right--his tab system raised as many questions for me back then as it answered--but he DID get the instrument's great tradition exactly right. In his inimitable hipster's voice, with a cool gruffness that makes him seem like every teen wannabe's knowing, disreputable Kerouackian uncle, he hips you to all the Big Names, tells you why they're important, what they're ABOUT, and makes you feel as though you're setting off on a serious, soulful enterprise. This book will inspire you and comfort you; it'll challenge you, too. Are you paying attention? This is your roadmap. It's an ancient roadmap, but that's okay, because the music is about all that old stuff, too. Blues harmonica is a sorcerer's art; a little attitude, a little improvisational juice, a dash of mumbo jumbo, is just as important as sober rationalism. Thanks to YouTube, young players these days have infinitely more instructional material to choose from, and some of it is very good indeed. But nobody--not Gindick, not Barrett, not Gussow (!)--has captured the feel of the music and its warm, sometimes gruff mentorship process more perfectly, in the form of a written voice, than has Tony Glover in this book. Start here.
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