Download or read book Harmonica Classics written by PHIL DUNCAN and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for chromatic, cross harp and diatonic harmonica. This fine collection presents Phil Duncan's arrangements on 44 classical music favorites.

Download or read book Fun with the Harmonica written by WILLIAM BAY and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great beginner's book for learning diatonic harmonica performance. Contains 42 songs, all easy and fun to play. Diatonic, Blues, and Chromatic harmonica stylings are all contained in this book. Also includes a section teaching the rudiments of music. The book teaches tone variance, bend, vibrato, and tremolo techniques. Audio and video download available online

Download or read book 100 Authentic Blues Harmonica Licks written by Steve Cohen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica). If you're just getting started or a veteran looking to add more licks to your arsenal, this book with audio is for you. From basic 12-bar blues backing riffs to mojo-packed solo licks, Steve Cohen shares 100 time-tested licks to help you get the most out of your 10-hole diatonic harp. All examples are played on a C harp and are written in standard notation and harmonica tab. The audio includes demonstration tracks for all of the licks many with play-along tracks. Includes: cross harp and straight harp licks; boogie-woogie licks; stop-time licks; ascending & descending licks; funk licks; shuffle licks; horn-adapted licks; glissandro licks; octave licks; warble licks; over-blowing chromatic licks; turn-arounds and endings. Also include many riffs in the styles of Sonny Boy Williamson II, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, James Cotton, and more!

Download or read book Building Harmonica Technique written by DAVID BARRETT and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 CD 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.

Download or read book Beyond the Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Download or read book Whose Blues written by Adam Gussow and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.

Download or read book The Great Harmonica Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica). The songbook no harmonica player should be without! Features 45 pop, rock, Broadway, movie hits and standards specially arranged for diatonic harmonica: All I Ask of You * All My Loving * Brown Eyed Girl * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can't Help Falling in Love * Daydream Believer * Duke of Earl * Dust in the Wind * Edelweiss * Every Breath You Take * Heart and Soul * Help! * I Shot the Sheriff * I Walk the Line * Let It Be * Maggie May * Moon River * My Funny Valentine * My Girl * Piano Man * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * Stand by Me * A Time for Us (Love Theme) * Time in a Bottle * Unchained Melody * We Will Rock You * With a Little Help from My Friends * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.

Download or read book Chicago Blues Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the audio to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. Volume 9 includes: Got My Mo Jo Working * Hard Hearted Woman * Help Me * I Ain't Got You * Juke * Messin' with the Kid * One More Heartache * Walking by Myself.

Download or read book Masters of the Blues Harp written by and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica). This exceptional, content-packed collection features 21 classic recordings of the great artists of the blues harp, transcribed and annotated by Glenn Weiser. Includes biographies of each personality, easy-to-read tablature, a notation guide, extensive performance notes, and a foreword by the legendary Charlie Musselwhite. Songs include: Baby, Scratch My Back (Slim Harpo) * The Big Boat (Charlie Musselwhite) * Blue Light (Little Walter) * Bottom Blues (Sonny Terry) * Blues in the Dark (George Smith) * Born Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson II) * Caravan (Gary Primich) * I'm Ready (Cary Bell) * Work Song (Paul Butterfield) * and more.

Download or read book Blues Harmonica For Dummies written by Winslow Yerxa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathe the blues into your harmonica! Blues harmonica is the most popular and influential style of harmonica playing, and it forms the basis for playing harmonica in other styles such as rock and country. Blues Harmonica for Dummies gives you a wealth of content devoted to the blues approach—specific techniques and applications, including bending and making your notes sound richer and fuller with tongue-blocked enhancements; use of amplification to develop a blues sound; blues licks and riffs; constructing a blues harmonica solo; accompanying singers; historical development of blues styles; and important blues players and recordings. The accompanying website features all the musical examples from the book, plus play-along exercises and songs that let you hear the sound you're striving for. In-depth coverage of major blues harmonica techniques Blues song forms, improvisation, and accompanying singers Information on blues history and personalities If you're intrigued by the idea of understanding and mastering the compelling (yet mysterious) art of playing blues on the harmonica, Blues Harmonica For Dummies has you covered. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Blues Harmonica For Dummies (9781118252697). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

Download or read book Rock Hits Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the audio to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. Volume 2 includes: Hand in My Pocket * Karma Chameleon * Middle of the Road * Rock Me * Small Town * Smokin' in the Boys Room * Train in Vain * What I Like About You.

Download or read book First 50 Songs You Should Play on Harmonica written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harmonica). 50 top pop songs every harmonica player should know, including: All My Loving * Blowin' in the Wind * Bye Bye Love * Happy Birthday to You * Isn't She Lovely * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Let It Be * Moon River * My Girl * Puff the Magic Dragon * Ring of Fire * Stand by Me * Sweet Caroline * Take Me Home, Country Roads * This Land Is Your Land * What a Wonderful World * When the Saints Go Marching In * With a Little Help from My Friends * Your Cheatin' Heart * and many more.

Download or read book Complete Classic Chicago Blues Harp written by DAVID BARRETT and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is meant to take an instrument and musical style and teach it to the people who made it so popular, the blues listening public. A comprehensive lesson and study book for the intermediate and advanced diatonic harmonica player, Classic Chicago Blues Harp presents techniques,progressive examples and accompanying twelve bar blues exercise and examples. Special attention is given to the accurate reading of blues rhythms and each notated tune is carefully marked with tablature indicating precisely where to find individual notes. Each chapter concludes with achapter review of what was taught in that section. Thisbook is best suited to the intermediate player rather than the beginner, and will appeal strongly to those with a genuine desire to learn the Chicago blues harmonica style. The book is excellent for self-teaching, yet is comprehensive enough to be used in a private instruction format. The downloadable audio available online insures accuracy of interpretation and ease in learning. Most of the exercises and examples are included in the audio with split-tracked back-up music. Each song is played once with harmonica and then without. A great all-around study book for blues harmonica players at any level

Download or read book Harmonica Americana written by Jon Gindick and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn to play America's 30 greatest songs, including a haunting Danny Boy, a blues-inspired America The Beautiful, and a side-splitting, lip-burning Turkey In The Straw. A compendium of harmonica lore including a special section on the blues."

Download or read book Chromatic Harmonica Solos written by PHIL DUNCAN and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful collection of favorite folk and classic themes are artistically arranged for chromatic harmonica solo in this book/CD package. All songs on the CD are split-track for play-along. Selected songs are recorded. Each songs is labeled with what harmonica was used. Some tunes are with piano and some are full orchestrations. Either the 12 or 16 hole chromatic harmonica may be used. CD contains only 28 of the 57 songs that are in the book.

Download or read book Harmonica Songbook written by Thomas Balinger and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Balinger Harmonica Songbook American Folk Songs A collection of American Folk Songs, arranged for easy Blues Harp (10-channel diatonic harp, system Richter) in C. You'll find the "classics", but you'll also encounter songs not as common and maybe even some you might never have heard before. This book is aimed at the beginning to intermediate player. The songs have been transposed and arranged for easy playing - you can play all of them without having to master advanced playing techniques like bending and overblowing first. Whether you're a complete beginner or have been playing for some time: these songs you can play right away. All songs feature additional harmonica tablature. This system of graphical notation tells you exactly what to play, making it ideally suited for beginners and players who don't read standard notation. Plus chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams. If you happen to have any guitar playing friend(s), you can start playing these songs together right away! Songs 1. A cowboy's life 2. Acres of clams 3. A horse named Bill 4. All the good times are past and gone 5. Angel Band 6. Arkansas Traveler 7. Aura Lee 8. Beautiful brown eyes 9. Billy Boy 10. Billy the kid 11. Blood on the saddle 12. Boil them cabbage down 13. Buffalo gals 14. Bury me not on the lone prairie 15. Carry me back to old Virginny 16. Cluck old hen 17. Colorado trail 18. Cotton-eyed Joe 19. Cumberland Gap 20. Danville girl 21. Dixie 22. Down to the river to pray 23. East Virginia Blues 24. Engine 143 25. Erie Canal 26. Frankie and Johnny 27. Git along, little dogies 28. Goin' across the mountain 29. I'm sad and I'm lonely 30. In the pines 31. I ride an old Paint 32. Jack of diamonds 33. Lakes of Ponchartrain 34. Little brown jug 35. Make me down a pallet 36. My home's across the smoky mountains 37. My old Kentucky home 38. Oh! Susanna 39. Old Dan Tucker 40. Shady Grove 41. Shortnin' bread 42. Simple gifts 43. The cruel war 44. The golden Vanity 45. Tom Dooley 46. When Johnny comes marching home 47. Wildwood flower 48. Wind and rain 49. Worried man Blues 50. Yankee Doodle

Download or read book Harmonica Beginners Your Easy How to Play Guide Book written by Dave Gage and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dave Gage and HarmonicaLessons.com! This 100-page book is an excellent introduction as you begin playing the 10-hole diatonic harmonica. You DO NOT need prior harmonica or music experience to start learning today. It includes: Easy beginner songs, easy blues riffs and jamming, basic playing techniques, and lesson plans.Harmonica is not nearly as easy as many people would have you believe, but Dave has done his best to make learning to play as simple and straightforward as possible. You'll begin with basic techniques, songs, the "Almost Blues Scale" and simple blues riffs. If you stick with it, you'll soon graduate to jamming blues, rock, country, bending notes, and sounding like a pro. Easy-to-Read and to understand text plus large example photos. Includes: free website video + audio song/riff examples; FREE Trial Membership at HarmonicaLessons.com.