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The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Playing the Harmonica will be the ultimate learning text for the aspiring "harpist" (as harmonica players are called). The reader will learn to play the harmonica in three bsic stages beginner, intermediate, and advanced, with a heavy emphasis on actual practice exercises. The book will emphasize blues, rock, bluegrass, folk, and jazz; it is designed to appeal to the broadest possible cross section of players. Additional chapters will cover purchasing the best harmonica for you, harmonica maintenance, the art of playing with other musicians, and profiles of master harpists.
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William Melton received his musical training at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a multi-instrumentalist, having played clarinet, French horn, and classical accordion professionally. He toured Europe twice playing French horn with symphony orchestras. His current instruments are the harmonica, accordion, and keyboard.
Randy Weinstein is a nationally known professional harmonica player and has performed in a number of international music festivals. He also teaches music theory and can be heard on several jazz CDs.
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An exelent book for the beginner, but becomes a bit too specialised as it goes on.
All in, good value for the money,but if you want to play anything but blues on a diatonic, you will have to read something else before too long.
The first few sections offer some really interesting information as to the history of the Harmonica, I wonder how much this is needed for you to learn to play, but I found it interesting nonetheless and easily read through those sections.
Once I reached the sections of the book which began teaching how to play I noticed a few things which, personaly, I thought could have been done better. All the information on techniques etc. is there and explained clearly, however there seems little in the way of guidance as to how long techniques will take to learn, and how long should be spent before progressing.
There are also exercises spread through the chapters which are clearly marked and well written. These you can find easily and use to help when working out your practice schedule.
Apendix B of the book has some great resources which help fill those gaps which I thought the book had.
All in all it is a good book but if you get it then be prepared to either buy another couple of titles or to make good use of the other resources provided to help.
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