This book covers the most common scales and modes used on the entire Lee Oskar Harmonica System. There are extensive exercises that help develop your agility and speed on the instrument. Includes access to online audio.

Blues Harmonica Method, Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting beginning blues harmonica course. The ideas presented are solid in the blues tradition with great-sounding bluesy licks to play, even at the beginning level! Phrasing Concepts (how small pieces of music, called licks, are organized to create a pleasing solo), 12 Bar Blues Theory, Vibrato, Shakes, and Tongue Blocking are covered. This book and its recording use a 'C' and 'A' major diatonic harmonic...

Adult Harmonica Method is an exciting harmonica course that teaches reading and playing for the person looking to study at home or with a community harmonica band. Whether you stay with the harmonica or move on to another instrument, the music studies in this book will prepare you for a fruitful lifetime of music making. The recording contains all the music examples with piano accompaniment for the popular melodies and a full-size blues band for the Rhythm and Blues songs. The most excitin...

This book and audio has instruction for: the brand new chromatic player; the experienced chromatic player who wants to learn blues; and for the diatonic blues harmonica player wanting to apply their skills to the chromatic. This book teaches the scales, phrasing, licks, articulation and same fantastic lines that all of the current and past blues chromatic greats have to offer. The recording includes detailed technique examples, songs, and full-band background tracks to play along with. Inc...

When two strangers meet by chance, they begin to recall a life they shared before the biblical flood. Byron, a single parent with two children, and Silvie, a gay schoolteacher in a relationship with Grace, set out on a journey to explore these vivid shared memories. Their past as lovers during that extraordinary time complicates their current relationships. Suddenly, an ancient adversary they faced during that turbulent period re-emerges with deadly intent, dramatically altering th...

Blues Keyboard Method Level 2, within the School of the Bluesr Lesson Series, is an exciting journey into Blues piano and organ for the intermediate player. Book contains: music theory relative to the Blues; accompaniment playing; full-length study songs; right and left hand material for improvising; and Blues as it's played on the Hammond organ.This series is designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica, guitar, bass or drums...

Offering a comprehensive study of harmonica techniques and blues soloing concepts, this book contains studies and etudes on bending notes (draw and blow), throat vibrato, two-hole shakes, tongue blocking, acoustic and amplified playing, music theory, blues scales, octave substitutions, playing positions, and position substitutes. Intended for the intermediate to advanced diatonic harmonica player, this book provides extensive instruction on lead and accompaniment playing styles. The compan...

Learn to read music, play popular songs and be part of an ensemble. For home study, senior wellness classes and better breathers groups. Specially designed lessons and information for those with COPD and related pulmonary diseases. Includes access to online audio of each example in the book.

How good of a musician you become is predicated on how much practice you do and the quality of that practice. In all likelihood, you don’t have access to a harmonica teacher (a rare breed), so it’s up to you to identify what will help you grow as a player and how to best spend your valuable practice time. In Daily Studies for Diatonic Harmonica, author David Barrett (the world’s most published author of harmonica lesson material) provides recommendations on how to set up your practice room...

Basic Blues Harmonica Method is geared toward getting you playing blues harmonica as fast as possible. The songs and exercises have been designed to get you comfortable with moving around the instrument and allow you to take full advantage of the great sounding patterns available on your harmonica, without first having to learn advanced techniques such as bending. The basic techniques covered are single hole embouchure, tongue block embouchure and octaves. You'll be able to achieve that bl...

Jason, a tough, ruthless cage fighter, still grieving over his younger brother's suicide and using pills to ease his dark moods, spends New Year's Eve with Belinda, a bisexual woman recovering from two failed relationships. After a passionate night, they pass out and wake up to discover they have undergone a dramatic transformation, leaving them in a bizarre situation where they are no longer who they used to be.

This book is meant to give you a jump-start in playing blues harmonica. You will find that there are both easy and difficult techniques on the harmonica. Due to the nature and length of this book, and to avoid repetition of sections of other books by the same author, some of the more commonplace blues harmonica techniques are avoided here. A 10-hole D harmonica is required to begin this book, but a Lee Oskar natural minor harmonica in the key of A minor is also recommended. All tunes and e...