Contents note continued: Taking the time to make ... it happen -- Becoming fluent in the language of blues harmonica -- Getting in the blues harmonica groove -- ch. 2 Getting Your Harmonicas Together -- Finding Good Harmonicas for Playing Blues -- What harmonica you need to study this book -- What features to look for in a harmonica for blues -- Shopping tips -- Acquiring the Most Useful Keys and Types of Harmonica -- The most often used harmonica keys for blues -- Smashing the limits with the low and high keys -- Adding to your kit with a chromatic harmonica -- Using harmonicas in alternate tunings -- Organizing and Protecting Your Harmonicas -- Carrying your harmonicas around -- Organizing your harps when you play -- Keeping Your Harmonicas in Good Working Order -- Knowing the parts of your harmonica -- Protecting your harps from damage -- Keeping your harmonicas clean -- Servicing and repairing your harmonicas -- ch. 3 Deciphering the Code: A Blues Guide to Music Symbols. Read MoreContents note continued: Getting to Know the ... Shorthand of Harmonica Tab -- Understanding Musical Time -- Beats and tempo -- Time values and rhythm -- Bars and measures -- The ABCs of Melody and Harmony -- Vibrations and pitch -- The notes of the scale -- Sharps and flats -- Semitones and whole tones -- Intervals -- Keys -- Scales -- Chords and chord progressions -- Using chord shorthand with I, IV, and V -- Shaping Musical Statements -- Phrases -- Verses and musical form -- Communicating with Other Musicians -- Naming the key of a song -- Counting off to begin the song -- Indicating tempo and rhythm -- Conveying a song's arrangement -- pt. II Doin' the Crawl: Your First Harmonica Moves -- ch. 4 Breathing Life into the Harmonica -- Preparing Your Body and Your Mind -- Relaxing and getting ready -- Aligning your posture -- Focusing your breath -- Adding the Harmonica -- Getting the harmonica in your mouth -- Breathing gently and deeply -- Holding the harmonica. Read MoreContents note continued: Making Your First Musical ... Sounds -- Playing long, medium, and one-beat notes -- Repeating notes with articulation -- Dividing the beat -- Balancing your breath -- Chugging with train rhythms -- Whooping -- ch. 5 Moving Around with Single Notes -- Isolating a Single Note with Your Lips -- Singling Out a Note with Your Tongue -- Making Your First Moves -- Finding your starting hole -- Changing between inhaled and exhaled notes -- Playing your first single note blues -- Playing Your First Blues Phrases -- Moving to a neighboring hole -- Question-and-answer phrases -- Finalizing your musical statement -- ch. 6 Creating Blues Harmonica Licks and Riffs -- Combining Breath Changes and Hole Changes -- Taking your first step -- Extending the pattern -- Getting Acquainted with Licks and Riffs -- Discovering five common blues riffs -- Getting your licks in -- Building Licks and Riffs with Pathways -- Creating a pathway -- Finding short pathway licks. Read MoreContents note continued: Extending pathway licks ... into longer lines -- ch. 7 Progressing Through the 12-Bar Blues -- The Three Parts of 12-Bar Blues -- Setting the stage with the first part -- Going somewhere with the second part -- Raising the roof and taking it home with the third part -- Relating Each Part of the Verse to the Harmonica's Chords -- The magnetic lure of the home chord -- The I chord and the first phrase -- The IV chord and the second phrase -- The V chord and the third phrase -- Dodging through the fast-changing chords of the last part of the verse -- Playing tunes to explore these approaches -- Shaping Your Statements in 12-Bar Blues -- Leading into the first beat with a pickup -- Starting after the first beat -- Combining both approaches with riff-and-vocal phrasing -- pt. III Beyond the Basics: Getting Bluesy -- ch. 8 Working with the Low and High Registers of the Harmonica -- Getting Low and High Notes to Sound Clearly. Read MoreContents note continued: The dying cow syndrome in ... the low register -- Reluctant notes and squeals in the high register -- Unlocking the Power of the Low Register -- Making sense of the missing notes -- Working with the duplicated note -- Exploiting the strengths of the low register -- Demystifying the High Register -- Making sense of the blow-draw shift -- Adapting riffs and licks to the high register -- ch. 9 Modulating and Punctuating Your Sound -- Starting and Stopping Notes with Articulation -- Making "p" sounds with your tongue -- Forming "t" and "l" sounds -- Creating the "k" sound -- Combining "k" sounds with "p" and "t" -- Making cough sounds -- Adding heft with the diaphragm thrust -- Making Vowel Sounds -- Forming tongue vowels -- Shaping hand vowels -- Undulating Your Sound with Vibrato -- Tongue vibrato -- Throat vibrato -- Hand vibrato -- Combining different vibratos -- ch. 10 Enriching Your Sound with Textures -- Playing Warbles and Shakes. Read MoreContents note continued: Doing the hand warble -- ... Varying the sound of a warble -- Warbling along a melody line -- Mastering Tongue Action -- Tongue-blocked single notes in Holes 1 and 2 -- Tongue vamps -- Pull-offs -- Tongue slaps -- Hammers -- Rakes -- Splits -- Shimmers -- ch. 11 Bending Notes: A Classic Part of the Blues Sound -- Acquiring the Knack -- Tuning your mouth and activating the bend -- Finding your first bends in the middle register -- Your first bending tune: "Fishing Line Blues" -- Moving to and from Bent Notes -- Stopping a bent note and starting it again -- Stopping a bend and moving on -- Your second bending tune: "All Choked Up" -- Mapping All the Bends -- Playing Your Bends in Tune -- Bending in the Low Register -- Hole 2 bends -- Hole 1 bends -- Hole 3 bends -- Your third bending tune: "Tearing and Swearing" -- Bending in the High Register -- Blow bends with a pucker -- Blow bends with a tongue block -- Hole 7 bends -- Hole 8 and 9 bends -- Hole 10 bends. Read MoreContents note continued: Your fourth bending tune: ... "Wailin' High" -- Bending on the Chromatic -- The uniqueness of bending on the chromatic -- Chromatic bending tune: "Blue Blossoms" -- Bending Notes Up with Overblows and Overdraws -- Why bending up is useful -- How bending up works -- How to do it -- Overblow tune: "Sass" -- pt. IV Developing Your Style -- ch. 12 Playing in Different Keys on a Single Harmonica -- Introducing the Position Concept -- Seeing the benefits of playing one harp in many keys -- Simplifying the possibilities with the circle of fifths -- Relating the key of the harmonica to the key of the tune and the position -- An Overview of First, Second, and Third Positions -- First position -- Second position -- Third position -- ch. 13 Working Your Blues Chops in First Position -- Relating First Position to the Three Chords of the Blues -- Finding the home note and the home chord -- Playing over the IV chord -- Playing over the V chord. Read MoreContents note continued: Navigating the Three ... Registers in First Position -- Screaming in the high register -- Cooking in the middle register -- Growling in the low register -- Bearing Down on Blue Notes and Bendable Notes in First Position -- Exploring Pathways to First-Position Licks and Riffs -- Three First-Position Study Tunes -- "Jimmy's Boogie" -- "Madge in the Middle" -- "Tear It Down" -- ch. 14 Accelerating the Blues with Third Position -- Relating Third Position to the Three Chords of the Blues -- Finding the home note and the home chord -- Playing over the IV chord -- Playing over the V chord -- The Three Registers in Third Position -- Wailing in the middle register -- Floating in the high register -- Flexing your muscles in the low register -- Blue Notes and Bendable Notes in Third Position -- Exploring Pathways to Third-Position Licks and Riffs -- Three Third-Position Study Tunes -- "Blue Cinnamon" -- "Sizzlin' Ice" -- "Low Kicks." Read MoreContents note continued: ch. 15 Playing Blues ... Chromatic Harmonica in Third and First Positions -- Why Play Chromatic? Getting Accustomed to Its Face -- The chromatic from a blues perspective -- The chromatic's uniqueness -- Third Position Blues Chromatic: Tongue Blocking Is King -- Adding body with splits -- Study tune: "Grits and Grease" -- Using the Slide -- Locking into tenth position with the slide -- Adding blue notes and slide ornaments -- Study tune: "Blue Bling" -- First Position Blues Chromatic -- Adding the blue notes and slide ornaments -- Study tune: "Bumping the Slide" -- Playing splits in first position -- Study tune: "Splitsville" -- ch. 16 Playing Blues in Minor Keys -- What Is a Minor Key? -- Making Minor Keys Easy with Minor Keyed Harmonicas -- Using Familiar Positions to Play in Minor Keys -- Adapting third position to minor keys -- Adapting second position to minor keys -- Adapting first position to minor keys -- Getting Hip to Minor Positions. Read MoreContents note continued: Playing in fourth ... position -- Playing in fifth position -- ch. 17 Groovin' with Non-12-Bar Blues -- Strategies for Adapting to Different Song Forms -- Finding familiar chords in new places -- Mapping out the beats and bars -- Listening to tunes in a new form -- The 8-Bar Blues Form -- Mapping the 8-bar form -- Study tune: "Blue Eight" -- Noteworthy variants -- Saints Go Marching In Form -- Mapping Saints form -- Saints study tune: "High Water Strut" -- Second Saints tune: "All I Want" -- pt. V Taking It to the Streets: Sharing Your Music -- ch. 18 Developing Your Blues Repertoire -- Learning by Ear from Blues Records -- Developing your ear -- Figuring out harmonica parts from recordings -- Improvising a Blues Solo with Licks and Riffs -- Adding a New Harmonica Part to a Song -- Blues Harmonica Songs to Get in Your Ears -- ch. 19 Blues Harmonica Amplification: Making a Big Noise with a Tiny Little Thang -- Two Major Approaches to Amplification. Read MoreContents note continued: Using sound reinforcement ... for central control -- Competing and cooperating with individual amplifiers -- Using Distortion and Avoiding Feedback -- Distortion -- Feedback -- Piecing Together the Amplification Chain -- Understanding microphones -- Choosing the right mic for you -- Developing your microphone technique -- Passing the microphone signal on to the next stage -- Processing your sound -- Using amplifiers and speakers -- Optimizing guitar amps for harmonica-friendly distortion -- Making amplification work onstage -- pt. VI The Part of Tens -- ch. 20 Ten Things to Know about Sharing Your Music with Others -- Five Ways to Collaborate with Other Musicians -- Finding compatible players -- Filling an instrumental role in a band -- Backing a singer -- Taking a solo -- Playing in a jam session -- Five Tips for Delivering a Polished Performance -- Preparing to play -- Looking good onstage -- Conquering anxiety -- Relating to an audience. Read MoreContents note continued: Sitting in as a guest -- ... ch. 21 Ten Important Periods and Styles in Blues Harmonica History -- Early Harmonica History in the United States -- Prewar Rural Blues Harmonica -- Traveling Life and the Migration North -- Memphis and Early Urban Blues -- The Prewar Chicago Style -- The Rise of Amplified Blues Harmonica -- The Postwar Chicago Style -- Regional Harmonica Styles -- Rock, Blues, and the 1960s -- Modern Blues -- pt. VII Appendixes -- Appendix A Tuning Layouts for All Keys -- Appendix B About the CD -- Relating the Text to the CD -- System Requirements -- Audio CD players -- Computer CD-ROM drives -- The Tracks on the CD -- Troubleshooting. Read More |
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