Description

Easiest Blues Harp Book
by Phil Duncan

Product Number: 94673
ISBN: 1562223038
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: Book

Mel Bay’s Easiest Blues Harp Book is the ideal way to get started playing today’s blues harmonica styles. First, you will learn the basic techniques needed to play blues harp, such as lip blocking, single tone, bending, the slide, tremblo, and vibrato. Then, you’ll play riffs, blues harp solos, and blues rhythm chord studies–all on the C harmonica.

CONTENTS

How to Hold the Harmonica
Microphone
How to Read Arrows and Numbers
Air Flow
A Single Tone
Lip Blocking
Breathing
Vibrato
Cross-Harp
Time Signature
Notes and Rests
The Slide (Glissando)
Easy Blue
Dot Blues
G Blues
Tremolo (Shake)
Shake It!
Rests (Silence)
Driven Blues
Eighth Notes
Bounce Blues
Riff No. 1
Riff No. 2
Riff No. 3
Amplified Harmonica
Steppin’ Blues
Holes 7-8-9
Upper End
Smoke and Fire!
Chord Playing (Rhythm)
Chord Riff No. 1
Chord Riff No. 2
Swing Blues
Riff No. 4
Down Blues
Walking Boogie
Harmonica Shuffle
House of the Rising Sun
Bending Tones
Upper Octave and the Blow Bend
Riff No. 5
Riff No. 6
Vibrato Revisited (Pulsating Air)