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Teaches improvisational music harmony and harmonica technique, discussing bending, harmonica positions, tongue blocking, breathing, and slant and cross harp.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is about the fourth book that I bought to try and learn the harmonica and it's definitely the best: I just wish I'd got this one first and saved myself some money. If you're an absolute beginner with no knowledge of music theory then this book is for you and it will take you right up to intermediate standard.
The cd is excellent almost worth the price of the book on it's own. Buy it you won't regret it!
The cd is excellent almost worth the price of the book on it's own. Buy it you won't regret it!
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book/Cd package covers the rock/blues harp subject well. It uses "stories" about cartoon characters to explain some of the concepts. Although you do need to do as JON says and have the harp in your hands and mouth as you listen to the CD. The key is to try each single note/chord out at the same time as he tells you. You really need to "jam along" right from the begining. At first, I thought the cross reference to the CD was not as clear as I would have liked - but this only seems the case if you don't "play along" as told. The book covers things in a progressive way, but the CD seems to go at a different pace. At first this caused me some problems but I was expecting a page by page correspondance with the CD. You need to skip from the book to the Cd and back again. Once I took this approach the real value of the package became evident. Over all an excellent tutor which brings good results very quickly with even modest practise.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wow! This book is fast paced and Jon is very enthusiastic but there are not many tunes in it which is a shame. It would appeal to someone who intends to jam with others but if you are a lone player like me it left a bit of a hole. It mainly teaches riffs and how to string them together when jamming. Could have done without the caveman story throughout the book and just be given facts and practice pieces. I had to laugh when listening to the CD, Jon puffs and grunts throughout his playing and sometimes it's a bit difficult to follow because you need to keep refering to the book and he jumps from page to page. The illustations are OK but as I said i just want the meat and not a side story to pad it out a bit. Glad I didn't pay £24 like Amazon quoted but for £8-ish from Aphrohead it was reasonable value for money.
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Harmonica
This book is a sound guide to beginner and intermediate harmonica playing with some great riffs that can be learned and joined to make good tunes.
Published 6 months ago by Phil
"Woke up this morn'n and my dog was dead"
Oh I got the blues! Thanks to this cracking book! This is a book that comes with a cd that will take you from beginner to a pretty decent level of harmonica playing. Read more
Published 12 months ago by K. MOONEY
Excellent, as good as you can do with a book and CDs
I think that this is the best book and CDs that you can buy in order to learn to play the harmonica. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Blye
Unusual but Great Book
This book is very unusual in its layout and although it says from beginners it is not easy at start " what is " with the instruction method, but stick with it persevere, and you... Read more
Published 15 months ago by T. Beckett
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