13 best harmonica dvds

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Covers how to get started (choosing a harmonica, blowing and drawing), positions (first position and cross harp), playing individual notes, bending, and learning blues phrasing. Also teaches developing vibrato and trills, playing octaves and chords, mastering phrases in the style of blues harp legends Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, and a bonus lesson on ""The Major Scale.

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Absolute Beginners Harmonica is an easy to follow DVD that will take you thorugh the basics to playing complete songs. Clear demonstrations and jargon-free explanations about... -Basic music notation. -Your first notes and chords. -Special effects, like bends, trills and wah. -Playing your first song. Special Features: -Demonstrations and backing tracks for each song. -On-screen close-ups for easy learning. -An "owner's manual" approach to your harmonica that makes learning easier than ever before.

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This lively and comprehensive course by a world-class player and teacher reveals Norton Buffalo’s "bag of tricks," a wealth of important information that will give your harmonica playing power and excitement.

Norton covers all the basics: breathing, tonguing, single-note and chordal playing, bending, vibrato and other essentials. He demonstrates powerful exercises for breath control that will help you develop complex rhythmic patterns for blues, R&B and rock accompaniment. You’ll learn how to dress up melodies and improvise on a variety of songs, such as Las Mañanitas and The Yellow Rose of Texas. More advanced techniques - chord blocking, octave and harmony playing - are also covered to give you a well-rounded technical knowledge of the harmonica’s possibilities.

As a bonus, you’ll get Norton’s prescription for "harmonica survival" - how to keep your instrument playing in tune and make it last for years.

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This is the companion video to the Basic Blues Harmonica Method (book/cd set sold separately as item 99103BCD). As many techniques are much better demonstrated in video format, you will find this video to be a great learning tool. With large charts, diagrams, and many playing examples, nothing is left to the imagination.

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Horn From The Heart tells the complex story of the legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield. A tough white kid from Chicago’s South Side, Butterfield learned the blues from the original masters. The interracial Paul Butterfield Blues Band formed in the early 60s added a rock edge to the Chicago blues, striking a chord with the white rock audiences of the 60s and beyond, and rejuvenating worldwide interest in the blues. The only artist to perform at the major music festivals of the 60s - Newport Folk (1965), Monterey Pop (1967) and Woodstock (1969), Paul continued to break new musical ground incorporating horns, jazz other musical genres over the course of his career. He continued to perform and stand up for racial equality until his untimely death at age 44 of a drug overdose. Butterfield is one of a handful of musicians inducted into both the Rock & Roll and Blues Halls of Fame, alongside other legendary artists including B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday and Eric Clapton.

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Building Harmonica Technique DVD covers blues harmonica techniques and blues soloing for intermediate to advanced players. Instruction includes: 12-bar blues, construction, the IV chord, the V-IV-I transition, turnaround, constructing your solo, soloing blocks, soloing themes, song forms, phrasing, breath balance, breath patterns, scale combinations, soloing positions, tone, and music theory.

• Format: DVDSeries: Harmonica Masterclass LessonPublisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Date Published: 2/22/2006Difficulty: intermediate-advancedDuration: 143 minutesBinding: boxedSize: 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"
• Instruction includes: 12-bar blues, construction, the IV chord, the V-IV-I transition, turnaround, constructing your solo, soloing blocks, soloing themes, song forms, phrasing, breath balance, breath patterns, scale combinations, soloing positions, tone, and music theory

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The Intro to Harmonica DVD by Tom Wolf is a harmonica lesson designed for the absolute beginner. This video lesson starts the beginner off with proper technique (hand positions, mouth positions, blowing & drawing). You'll quickly learn scales and chords and techniques like double stops, vibrato, trills, cross harp, and bends. Learn how to play songs like Will the Circle Be Unbroken and Amazing Grace. You also learn how to play the harmonica along with other instruments like the guitar. All of the notation is on screen with a pointer showing each note as it's being played. This is the perfect tool for the beginner to learn how to play the harmonica.

About the Actor

Tom Wolf is an Atlanta session musician and Grammy Award nominee. He has over 25 years of experience playing harmonica and has spent many years teaching. Tom also performs nightly all around the southeast. He has recorded 3 CDs as well as the Introduction to Harmonica Video and the Harmonica Primer book.

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Harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy has mastered the awesome technique of playing chromatically on a basic ten-hole harmonica. Now he teaches you how he does it through the use of bends, overblows, overdraws and other challenging techniques. With some harp experience and the desire to move into dynamic new musical territory, you'll soon be playing blues, classical, jazz, pop or Latin tunes while gaining valuable insights into the harmonica's full potential.

Review:

"You owe it to yourself to check out Howard Levy's new teaching video . . . Howard may change your mind, and if you're serious about your music, he might even change your life. . . . The techniques Howard talks about are advanced techniques, but the video is so comprehensive that it is valuable to you even if you are a beginner because (it) demonstrates that there is virtually no limit to where you can take your instrument." -- American Harmonica Newsletter

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On UBX Harmonica you'll start with the basics of how to hold the harmonica, how to blow and draw correctly, and how to play beginning notes and melodies. Then you'll move on to more advanced concepts such as playing a major scale, articulation, cho

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This beginning kit contains everything you need to get started playing one of the most portable instruments - the harmonica! A high-quality Hohner Bluesband harmonica is included along with the Play Harmonica Today method book/CD pack. The professional-quality CD features 57 full-demo tracks to help you listen and learn. The Play Harmonica Today DVD features Lil' Rev a renowned folk musician who is also the author of the method book.

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This beginning kit contains everything you need to get started playing one of the most portable instruments = the harmonica! A high-quality Hohner Bluesband harmonica is included, along with the Play Harmonica Today! method book/CD pack. The professional-quality CD features 57 full-demo tracks to help you listen and learn. The Play Harmonica Today! DVD features Lil' Rev, a renowned folk musician who is also the author of the method book.

Complete Kit Contents

Welcome to Play Harmonica Today!—This book is designed to get you started on this fun and exciting instrument, with everything you need to know to play melodies and chords, and to learn songs you love to play. This book is written for use with a standard, 10-hole diatonic harmonica in the key of C major.

Kit includes:

• Hohner Bluesband Harmonica
• Beginning Method Book with Audio CD
• Instructional DVD

Play Today Harmonica Book Contents Page

The accompanying CD will take you step by step through each lesson and each music example. Much like a real lesson, the best way to learn this material is to read and practice a while at first on your own, then listen to the CD. With Play Harmonica Today! you can learn at your own pace. If there is ever something that you don't quite understand the first time through, go back to the CD and listen to the track number listed to replay the teacher's explanation. Every musical track has been given its own track number, so if you want to practice a song again, you can find it right away.