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Blues Harmonica. (A Comprehensive Crash Course and Overview). By Tom Ball. Harmonica. Softcover with CD. 72 pages. Published by Centerstream Publications (HL.159).
ISBN 0931759722. 9x12 inches.
Now on CD!This exciting instructional book/CD pack features a comprehensive crash-course on all aspects of the blues harmonica, including: types of harps; buying a harmonica and breaking it in; maintenance and repair; breathing and phrasing; tablature; 12-bar blues; playing with a guitarist; non-standard tunings; and much more. Written in a fun and friendly conversational style – and only in tab notation – the book encourages players to learn at a comfortable pace, while developing their own style and feel. The accompanying CD includes demonstrations to inspire and aid players in practice.
$19.95
Pages: 72
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The Hal Leonard Blues Ukulele Method is your complete guide to learning blues Ukulele. This book teaches you the basics of blues rhythm and lead Ukulele using authentic techniques and concepts. The accompanying CD contains demo tracks for every example in the book.Topics covered include: chord comping, boogie rhythms, pentatonic and blues scales, string bending, classic blues licks riffs, double stops, intros turnarounds, blues solos, fingerstyle blues, ukulele slide blues, blues ukulele history and more!
£8.95
Instruments: Ukulele, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Get your Blues Harmonica wailing with Norton Buffalo's guide to mastering the style. Begin by learning the disciplines of note bending, octave-playing, Blues rhythms and palm-breath coordination.Once you've mastered the basics, discover the possibilities created by amplification and the Electric Blues. Buffalo offers important suggestions concerning microphones, amplifiers and speakers, and demonstrates his ideas concerning tone, power and reverb. You'll even be able to add the Shuffle, the Boogie-Woogie walk and the 'tongue-teaser' to your bag of tricks!
£22.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
A useful and instructional harmonica tutor by renowned blues expert Steve Baker. Packed with hints, tips and detailed exercises, this book is ideal for all blues harmonica enthusiasts. CD included.
£18.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn blues-style harmonica with one of the world's greatest players, Don Baker. Discover the techniques of cross-playing, note bending, triplet tonguing and tone control to create all those bluesy sounds. Matching Video Available. French Edition.
£9.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn to play traditional blues and old-time string band music on the mandolin. Steve James knows this music and its history well, and he brings it clearly into focus on this lesson filled with 'ful-lovin' high jinks.Steve starts out with the basics, but quickly gets into blues scales, pick strokes, tremolo technique and other tools needed to play with style and authenticity. He lays out some blues chords on the mandolin, showing rhythm comping for song accompaniment along with turnarounds, double stops, blues riffs and variations on a walking boogie-woogie line - all essential elements for developing a blues repertoire.
£22.95
Instruments: Mandolin, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
A revised edition of the ever-popular introduction to Blues, Country and Folk Harmonica, taught from the very basics. Learn simple tunes and chords, slowly building your abilities up to note-bending and vibrato. Discover the key elements in the playing styles of Harmonica heroes such as Bob Dylan, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Mayall.
£9.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
A fascinating DVD, presented by Ukulele expert Bob Brozman, covers a host of strums, rolls, triplets, and syncopated finger-pick patterns in styles that include Hawaiian, Blues and Jazz. Also features Hawaiian Ukulele master Ledward Kaapana teaching his own arrangements, and demostrating his amazing fretboard virtuosity.
£22.95
Instruments: Ukulele, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Improvising Blues Harmonica Book/CD Set by David Barrett and John Garcia. For Harmonica (Diatonic). Improvisation. School of Blues. Blues. Intermediate-Advanced. Book/CD Set. 80 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20943BCD).
ISBN 9780786673216. Blues. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Improvising Blues Harmonica, by authors David Barrett and John Garcia, is a groundbreaking method explaining the mysterious world of improvising. This book and recording cover: chorus forms; what licks, riffs, melodies and phrases are made of; scale and chord theory; concepts for soloing (focus notes); phrase shaping; accompaniment playing; hooks, heads and bridges; elements that add unity to an instrumental; instrumental song analysis; learning solos note for note and retaining licks. Concepts in this material have been proven over a decade of private lessons and workshops held around the world. If you are looking to go the next step in your soloing skills, this material will take you there. For intermediate and advanced blues harmonica players. Recording uses "C" and "A" major diatonic harmonicas. Examples presented in the book are played by the authors. Full-length study songs are also included. 80 pages in length with one CD recording.
$19.99
Pages: 80
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
By Various. For harmonica. Harmonica. Blues. Difficulty: medium. Instrument solo songbook (leadsheet notation). Harmonica pitches, harmonica tablature, leadsheet notation, chord names and lyrics. 144 pages. Published by Hal Leonard
$14.95
Pages: 144
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
A Guide to Blues Chords Progressions for Ukulele from A to Z by Curt Sheller. For Ukulele. 26 blues chord progressions with chord substitutions, descriptions and example chords. Instructional Book. 80 pages. Published by Curt Sheller Publications (CS.AGCPB1UKE).
The Blues are at the heart of all American music. It has influenced Country, Rock, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass and just about every form of American music we listen to today. Studying the 26 blues chord progressions presented in this book will open a wealth of creative possibilities for exploring chord progressions in all styles of music, not just blues. This volume coves the keys of C. Each progressions includes a detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and example chords.
$17.95
Pages: 80
Instruments: Ukulele, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Mel Bay's Easiest Blues Harp Book is the ideal way to get started playing today's blues harmonica styles. First, you will learn the basic techniques needed to play blues harp, such as lip blocking, single tone, bending, the slide, tremblo, and vibrato. Then, you'll play riffs, blues harp solos, and blues rhythm chord studies--all on the C harmonica.
£4.99
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Play the harmonica now, with the revolutionary Instant Harmonica. This book and accompanying audio will teach the beginner, or novice, basic technique, popular tunes and blues playing, a little theory and some special effects used by professional players. No previous knowledge of music necessary.
£12.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This enjoyable introduction to harmonica lets you listen to the CD, practise the pieces in the book and then play along with the backing tracks. Starting Blues Harmonica has been created with beginners in mind. All the tunes have fantastic CD backing tracks recorded by a live band. As you gradually become familiar with different harp techniques, you’ll progress from playing single notes and chords to performing proper blues pieces, bends and all! The book includes photographs and diagrams to make learning fast and fun. Included in this pack is a quality diatonic harmonica in ‘C’ so you can start playing straight away. So if you’re an aspiring blues musician, Starting Blues Harmonica is the number one method for you!
£9.99
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This terrific method book/CD pack specific to the diatonic harmonica covers all six positions!It contains more than 20 songs and musical examples that take beginners from the basics on through to the most advanced techniques available for the contemporary harmonica player.Every aspect of this versatile musical instrument is explored and explained in easy-to-understand detail with illustrations.Includes information on: posture, breathing, hand positions, music reading, vibrato, playing amplified harmonica with a mic, note-bending, modes and more!
£7.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Peter Madcat Ruth gives you a comprehensive lesson to make your Harmonica playing really groove. In simple, easy-to-follow steps, Ruth introduces some of the more advanced and unusual breathing patterns and percussive sounds that will bring your rhythm playing to life, and add drive and swagger to you solos! Learn his own unique method of spoken syllables, and fill your playing with the character and vibe of an authentic Rhythm and Blues jam.
£22.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
School of Mandolin: Blues by Joe Carr. For Mandolin. Methods. School Of. Blues. Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21934BCD).
ISBN 9780786681594. Blues. 8.75" x 11.75" inches.
While the mandolin is not as synonymous with the blues as the guitar, the fiddle's fretted cousin was an important lead voice in many string blues bands of the 1920s through the 1940s including the Mississippi Sheiks, the Memphis Jug Band and the Dallas String Band. In the hands of great players including Carl Martin, Charlie McCoy, Yank Rachell, Howard Armstrong and Johnny Young, the mandolin was a convincing member of the blues ensemble. All of these player's styles are featured here as well as bluegrass music innovator Bill Monroe, Jethro Burns (Homer and Jethro,) Tiny Moore (Bob Wills' Texas Playboys) and Johnny Gimble Special sections cover basic blues shuffle rhythm, creating your own blues solos, turnarounds and introductions. Music is written in tablature and standard notation.
$14.99
Pages: 32
Instruments: Mandolin, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This volume of the Ukulele Play-Along series features 8 traditional Blues tunes each expertly arranged for Ukulele in standard notation.
The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the written music, listen to the CD to hear how the ukulele should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks.
The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Ukulele Play-Along pack features eight cream-of-the-crop, quintessential songs.
Songs include: Dust My Broom • Every Day I Have the Blues • How Long, How Long Blues • It Hurts Me Too • and more!
£8.95
Instruments: Ukulele, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn the bluesy sounds and style of the Harmonica with this fantastic and original tutor by Stuart ‘Son’ Maxwell. Created with young players in mind, this enjoyable introduction to harmonica enables you to get started, and get playing straight away. Listen to the professionally recorded, live band demonstrations on the CD, practice the pieces from the music book and then play-along with the backing tracks! A clear presentation, fun pieces and intuitive learning, all combine to make a complete learning tool. As you gradually become familiar with different harp techniques, you’ll progress from playing single note and chords to performing proper blues pieces, bends and all! Dozens of pictures and diagrams help make learning fun and progress fast. So, if you are a young blues musician, Starting Blues Harmonica is the method for you!
£5.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Transform your diatonic harmonica playing and discover the world of chromatic harmony without having to buy or learn a new instrument, as Howard Levy gives you the secrets of his remarkable technique.Levy has developed a method for diatonic (Blues) Harmonica-playing that encompasses every note in every key, opening up the possibilities of the instrument into the worlds of Jazz, Latin and Classical music. Learn how to use bends, overdraws and overblows accurately to play a full chromatic scale. After explaining and demonstrating the principle modes, Levy guides you through his own exquisite arrangements of jazz standards Autumn Leaves, Sweet Georgia Brown and Rhythm Changes.You'll learn music theory, exercises and invaluable techniques to help improve your playing. Howard gives advanced harpists exciting new skills, and players of all levels will gain insights into the broader potential of the Harmonica.
£22.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Renowned Harmonica performer and pedagogue Steve Baker is back in this third installment of his Blues Harmonica tuition. Steve's instantly recognizable original style is brought to you here, with all songs composed and presented by Steve himself. Aimed at intermediate-level diatonic harmonica players, this book is full of practice material in a variety of styles, giving you insight into how the top players create their exciting sounds.
£18.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This terrific method book/CD pack specific to the chromatic harmonica covers 14 scales and modes in all 12 keys!It contains more than 20 songs and musical examples that take beginners from the basics on through to the most advanced techniques available for the contemporary harmonica player.Every aspect of this versatile musical instrument is explored and explained in easy-to-understand detail with illustrations.
£7.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
On this DVD, Chicago blues master Billy Branch provides an easy-to-follow, 24-step introduction to blues Harmonica and his impressive techniques.He covers: choosing the right harp; Keys and basic theory; bending, hand vibrato, octaves and other techniques; tips on amplification and playing with a band; and more!No prior experience or music reading ability is required, so this DVD is perfect for beginners!
£14.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The fastest way to teach yourself the Harmonica! Expert Harmonica pro David Hart begins with your first breathing patterns and notes, moving through simple melodies and rhythms as you find your way around the instrument. Once you've mastered the basics, its time to tackle those quintessential Blues techniques that will really bring your playing to life, including:Chords and arpeggiosBugle callsDouble stopsVibratoTrain soundsShakesCross-harp style12-bar BluesThe pack also includes printable PDF reference materials and a guide to the different types of Harmonica available to choose from.
£8.95
Instruments: Harmonica, Folk
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
