From raw beginners to struggling intermediates, this highly informative love song to jamming and the blues helps the reader learn the basics of music theory and the I-IV-V chord progression from Adam and Eve in "The Night Music Was Discovered".
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This beginning harmonica player's guide to jamming appears in a new edition to provide the basics of rock and blues harmonica styles and cycles to follow which teach various riffs and approaches. Easily-understood scale drawings require little in the way of prior technical musical knowledge, while the basics are imparted in a chatty tone which assumes no prior harmonica experience. The result is a classic harmonica instruction book which is simple and easy to understand. In Rock n' Blues Harmonica, master teacher Jon Gindick uses story-telling to teach you the harp in ways that allow you to get really good, really quickly! You'll learn the basics of music theory and the I-IV-V chord progression from Adam and Eve in "The Night Music Was Discovered". You'll meet the first rock n' blues band in the prehistoric world (Stone and the Cave Boys) and learn harmonica chord cycles, single notes, bending, blues cycles, jamming with guitar -- and more riffs than you thought possible to play. You'll travel down to the old bus station and meet Hubie, a mysterious musician/philosopher, and learn the secrets of amplified harp, blues chromatic, position playing, overblows, overdraws, tongue-blocking, headshaking -- and pulling off a solo that will get your audience off its feet and dancing. From raw beginners to struggling intermediates, this "user friendly", highly informative love song to jamming and the blues will get you wailing the harp beyond your wildest dreams. Rock n' Blues Harmonica is quite simply the best blues harmonica "how-to" book available to aspiring harmonica players available today. -- Midwest Book Review
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
good starter to intermediate book. Great story to follow to,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rock N' Blues Harmonica: A Beginner's Guide to Jamming with CD (Audio) (Paperback)
Great book to get you started goes through theory straight harp cross harp and slant harp. very good teaching book. Goes through some theory. A quick read that you'll be reading over and over again. Great blues riff to get you wailing. I would suggest getting the cassettes with this or any blues instruction book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great place to start,
By harr9446@cs.uidaho.edu (Moscow, Idaho) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rock N' Blues Harmonica: A Beginner's Guide to Jamming with CD (Audio) (Paperback)
I just started blowing on a harp I picked up and wanted something to learn some simple blues by. Although the premise of the book is a story of some cave men who learned the harmonica, there is a great deal of information here. I even found it a bit inspirational. I would recommend to those of you with a sense of humor who want to start learning for fun. If you are looking for strictly technical don't buy it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes beginners feel like they can learn to be accomplished,
By A Customer
This review is from: Rock N' Blues Harmonica: A Beginner's Guide to Jamming with CD (Audio) (Paperback)
This book is a wonderful blend of music lesson and story-telling. If you get hung up on something technical, there is plenty of lore to pull you through the rough spots and keep up your interest. Who knew making music could be so easy, and so much fun?
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