Building Harmonica Technique
Feb 2011 · Mel Bay Publications
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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 companion audio includes musical example and play-along songs. Each exercise is played and every full length song is fully accompanied by a blues band. Each large example is played once with harmonica and again with accompaniment only. This book can be used with both diatonic and chromatic harmonica, but us more recommended for the diatonic player. Includes access to online audio.
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David Barrett is the world's leading expert in blues harmonica education..blazing the way in every facet of its education for 28 years. By age 20, David had released his first book, Building Harmonica Technique, with one the world's largest publishers, Mel Bay Publications. This book was the first serious blues harmonica method to be released in the market. David Barrett is now the world's most published author of blues harmonica lesson material, with almost 70 book/CD sets and videos published. Before BluesHarmonica.com David was an active writer for various publications. For ten years, he wrote a featured column for Blues Revue.
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