Instant Naked Raw Brutal Blues Harmonica - your first lesson

[murany06]

ive been tryin to teach myself to play blues harp for a couple years now, and i learned more in this video than I have ever before, thank you SO much. Huge fan of Satan & Adam btw

[luv2jive]

OMG. I'm not one of the chosen few. :o(( I gonna kill myself now. Goodby world

[luv2jive]

Nailing those single notes is a real bitch

[luv2jive]

ouch ! you slapped my head!! but i'm payin' attention now !! I deserved the slap 'casue I should of started this long, long ago. As a passionate blues dancer why did I never learn the harp? Am i nutzz?? great humor tho . good stuff mate and thanks for being out there and passing it along !!!

I got my first harp in the post today a Suzuki promaster 350V. What a luverlee sound even if I can play it yet. i will

[aguallar]

cool!



[chrisdavies23359]

got me my brand new marine band in c, after watching you. Your sound is soooo great

[ransom2389]

Wow you need to make more lessons like that. I learned more in ten minutes than I have in hours looking all over the Internet.

[missmymissy]

Great vid Adam, love the spontinaiety, been your follower for quite some time since .001. Think I need to take the plunge and play for an audience...yikes...or maybe I'll keep practicing..lol

[ksink74]

4:13 Actually, there 'are' two techniques...

[schwambly]

Nice kick start. Thanks so much!

[paulkiss1981]

Nice vid, man

[lovagode4ta]

I'm an autodidact, and this class it's all i've been doing this few months since i've started with the diatonica, nice to know im going the right way :D 

[rosielupin]

i'm just learning how to play and this is the best tutorial video i've ever seen. needless to say i always keep this video open in my browser. unfortunately when other people look over my shoulder and see "instant naked raw brutal..." they don't give me the chance to explain myself

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

Your great man have you ever played in Canada ? I love your song at the crossroads awesome song and video...Peace from Canada.Keep On Harpin'.

[MrSquareJohn]

i'm not part of the 5% :( i guess i have to practice

[AcousticFlow14]

i was'nt one of the chosen few :(

[GuitarOcarina64]

how do you play single notes?

[ljbxx]

cool nice guy thx

[spiffjeffy]

Yeah. This lesson is just awesome. Adam, please make more lessons like this, but for the intermediate level.

[AmarylisFlow]

Possibly the best video I have seen on you tube, my harmonica is on order. Wonderful!

[212kwood]

Great video's. All of them! Just picked up my first harmonica and your videos are unreal. Withing 5 minutes I was bending the notes cause of this video! Don't know if you said that to make us noobs excited but it made me pumped when I did it! Thanks!

[KudzuRunner]

@212kwood: Great! That's the most satisfying comment I've received in months. I'm happy to have inspired you.

[isaidwithcheese]

This is a great video. I had just bought a harmonica and it has helped me loads already. Better than just reading pages and pages of text :)

[billyhammertime]

can't do that 4 & 5 hole thingy

[Deusexmachinamusic]

I always really enjoy your lessons Adam, I've always played blues on the guitar but the harmonica has always called to me. I have to say your teaching method is one of the things that has inspired me, to convey wisdom with absolute humility is the sign of a great musician, and i can't thank you enough!

[gluzzo]

Just really wanna say thanks. Great job helping us newbies. I love your videos.

[nicksib911]

This is undoubtedly the best name for a video I have ever seen! Plus excellent instruction.

[JoeCribbUk]

Great lesson. Thanks for all your time spent helping others play as they call it in my neck of the woods - 'Gob Iron'

[Tariqalhajri]

im no beginner but i still learn something from every video you post

[alwaysabil]

Before I watched this I was blowing on my old C and went and got a new A and now I'm back to where I was. Turns out I am one of the 5 percent and I didn't even know it! Thanks for the quick re-cap.

[BluesDfender]

Hahahaha!!

Very good Adam!

[fatfish17]

Thank you good sir. I don't think I'm in the five per cent. But I shall endeavour forever.

[jazz606]

I swear that was the best lesson I have ever had on anything!! Felt like you were holding me by my balls and making me listen....but I liked it!!! What have you done to me!! Great lesson sir. Respect from cold and damp old England.

[nxePremium]

ADAM THAT WAS GREAT, you make it seem so easy! I wish you'd make the next steps in your next vid!

[Urbanomad22]

Hey Adam, any chance you can a lesson on Walters A quarter to 12?

[tableforc]

great timing, i did make this a new years resolution!

[talk2nguyen]

Dang you smacked the camera just as I was losing focus and wasn't paying attention! Great teacher.

[KingZig86]

I can bend but I can't draw it out heelllp please!!!!

[Lee68Perry]

crazy.

[JetJockey87]

I am very glad to say that I have been following a while but watched this and learnt to bend instantly ( I did discover it a little whilst learning Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, on the 6 draw) But I discovered something else, Im not sure what it is... I'll upload a video response so maybe you can help me!

[Muzikman127]

Some people can bend, some can't. Do you think it's a skill anyone could learn, or do you reckon maybe there's something going on in the genes? Some people can roll their tongue, some can't. Maybe it's like that? It is a tongue thing after all. What's your two cents Adam?

Either way, learning to bend is like learning a new consonant- it's like trying to speak a forgeign language where you've never made those sounds before in your life...

[LutherRay]

Too funny. I laughed so hard I cried!

And; and, excellent advise to boot.

[RecoveryUSB]

You're the best teacher ever!

[fivethumbsfrank]

made me jump!

[AndonMie]

(Second time watching and I understand it more and am more fluent the second time around, thanks again)

[mikeydudos]

dude.. why are you doing harp lessons in your car??? is your mother in law in the house ??(:-)

[gunzorro]

Funny, frightening. . . and effective! :) 

[orhun511]

lessons forever

[macengregora]

*slap* PAY ATTENTION!

[sgsax]

I think this is the year that I'm going to suck less on the harmonica. Thanks for the flash starter tips. Always good to think about fundamentals.

[AndonMie]

It would be a mistake to say that you don't enjoy what you do. Good video. I am learning and I believe based on my knowledge of jazz that the credit song is Night Train?

[KudzuRunner]

@AndonMie: Yes, King Curtis's version of that song. Good ears!

[D3ll4n0]

Hey Adam! I live in a place were harmonica is not even close, a tradition. Only for curiosity, here it's called "gaita".

Thank you for be an guide in this instrument that blend it self with the history of blues. Best regards from Roraima - BRASIL.

[gioco1234]

Grazie.

[harpdude61]

Pay attention new players.....this cat is one of the best teachers and players on the planet!!

[tahoemike00]

Nothing like getting slapped around by AG. "Thank you sir! May I have another?!?"

(Good stuff, how about some more 'power learning' episodes!)

[harpslide]

Great vid Adam !

Greetz from Amsterdam Harmonica Meetup,

Ed

[shanir97]

Adam, you are great. Big like on this one

[harpkeyAl]

This is probably the craziest and fastest and most impressive lesson among all your videos, Adam! :-) That was real fun. I flinched as you hit the camera :-) But, it's some kind of frightening how simple the harmonica is - at least in the basics. You could put that in 9 minutes or something. Nevertheless, this little instrument can challenge us our whole life. Isn't that great? I think that's the magic of playing harmonica.

[JeffPsalm23]

LMBO @ slapping the camera! Had me rolling! Thank you!

[chlions]

A very big "thank you" from the small frenchie beginner that I am ! I asked my first harp for this last christmas ans since, I've been watching every single vidéo you made... Yes, I spent the last 10 days with you adam... And as we say here : TOTAL RESPECT ! You're the boss !

Lionel

[MrTux62]

Great video! Thanks so much!

[Dudefish420]

At the moment of PAY ATTENTION!! a wuz looking at my harp like "wish I had awesome skill in 2 minutes"

[southernstunna]

Great video and Hotty Toddy

[soccerlu08]

wow amazing! I've been trying to learn for a while now. Very informative and helpful!

[rfgeek]

Great stuff!! (Although it may be time to hold off of the egg nog)

[Videodude1939]

Good lesson on this one. You're not rambling on and on so much.

[thead4]

You know Adam, this is the best lesson you've ever taught.

[CRunchy6614]

OMG that was halirous you scared the life out of me my phone had just rang and i picked it up then you yell at the camera ... and i droped my phone

[deepblueharp]

"flushing out the psychologically unstable" ?? hahahaha Love the video! More animated than usual did you found a secret stash of JOLT cola??? Great video as always!

[KudzuRunner]

@deepblueharp: Method acting. 

[snarkus]

this is excellent, adam.

[eichdog]

Much thanks to you Adam! I just picked up my 1st harp 2 days before you created this video and I use my 45 min commute to work to practice (I figure it's safer than talking on a cell phone and there are no 'hand free' laws about the harp in California... yet). I just came across your videos today and can't wait to wrap up my work for the day and start blowing on the way home! Thanks for taking the time out of your life to help myself and others learn this instrument! I'll make sure I pay it --->

[KudzuRunner]

@eichdog: You're welcome! The harp-driven commute is one of the great inventions of the age of motor vehicles. Good thing we no long need to keep both hands on the reins!

[JetJockey87]

@KudzuRunner

Ahhh I'm a big fan of the harp-driven commute, unfortunately some of the other passengers on the bus aren't, but oh well!

[AceReid]

lol when you hit the camera and yelled "pay attention", I was actually getting distracted and got scared.

[veliliukas]

Scary...but funny...HA!

[metaldetectingguy]

Hey Adam, man, that 4:16 gave me a good laugh. TNX for that AND for the lesson. Vito

[BillKumpe]

Very good internet marketing Adam. The words "Naked, Brutal and Raw" combined with anything run your hit count sky high. For example, there is a "Naked Ukulele" thread going strong here on YT. But, marketing and hits aside. Fabulous lesson. Six months worth of street learning in ten minutes. Every aspiring blues harp player ought to run and rerun this segment until they can do it in their sleep.

[KudzuRunner]

@BillKumpe: Thanks, Bill! Best wishes to all my harp-buddies in Tulsa.

[TheMadcowking]

your mad... brilliant... but mad

[KudzuRunner]

@crusheroftheist: I'm trying to flush out the psychologically unstable; they're the only ones who pay attention to such things.

[GrahamFudge]

This was a great lesson. Instant enlightenment, no problem! Thanks.

[capt12b]

Great job as always. Now I just wish you could teach me all I need to know about blues guitar in 10 mins and I would be set :-)

[boufgreg]

Great lesson. It only took me 30 years to learn what you just taught in 10 min. 30 years ago we had no YouTube Gussow lessons

[cypher951]

ok aside from the great info Adam....I just love the tags you have chosen ....naked, sexy, fightclub.....

just perfect! :)

[hoshnasi]

Like that brutal style!

[kerzhakova]

I wish you would my teacher!

[HonorableReynard]

My face hurts!

great lesons, thanks!

[88Kamikaze69]

Thank you ever so much, best free harmonica video I have come across so far as blues goes and I have looked around quite abit and seen most of yours as well :P

[cbasstn]

this was as funny as productive, thanks a lot! ...poor camera though. ;)

[1RAVENGANG52]

lol lol i love this vid thanks adam

[spareld]

can you do this with a small harmonica even if it does have 10 holes?

[maria75277]

love this! It was easy to understand, and I love your sense of humor, humor makes it easier to learn! Thanks!!!

[TheSpicyMelons]

lol, I picked up a harp for X-Mas and I was able to bend right away. Everyone thought I knew how to play like a pro. They were easily deceived! i lol'd. I really like learning the harp though, it's alot of fun.

[1RAVENGANG52]

you the man

[666DaDoom666]

Adam you're unbeatable! That's the most funny video I've seen on Youtube so far! The slap was too much!

[enrikejs]

TO BEND TRY SAYING HOODLEDOODLE WHILST YOU DRAW the "hoo" makes u bend

[racerswe]

I tell you, this made me pick up my harmonica (a gift) and try.

Sure, it didnt sound so great, but it felt good! :)

I want lesson nr 2..

[harpin191]

Slap was priceless!

[Slears]

I always Wonder..Adam..why are you doing your Lessons in your Car?!?! Is it your Wife...yelling at you "ADAM just leave the House!!...my Nerves are wrecked from that NOISE!!" ;o) Anyway..you RULE Bro..thx for everything!

[dudegizmo]

This is going to be remembered along side the state trooper video... Nice crash course, great vibes... Nice touch on the slap...

[welshbarbarian]

STONE SOUP! STONE SOUP! - EFFORT! Just bought a B - Flat. starting with your First lesson (gussow.000) Still find the the two hole draw bend a full stop very hard on the C harmonica without pursing my lips and creating that wooshing sound. Its wrecking my head! Thanks Adam for everything. Your lessons are Gold. By the way that slap really did hurt.

[threeque]

LOL, pay attention

[redmondgar]

Slap me again and I swear I'll turn you OFF! But seriously love what your doin!

[DragonOfTheRiver]

Great Video, Thank you

[BlewAzul]

Nice vid. Been watching your videos for the last year now (when I decided to jump into the pool and buy my first harp) and I've enjoyed the all. Thank you for that.

[Necrowolf93]

Great Video as always! :D OH! i was one of the 5%!

[Sysv79]

Thanks for your lessons Adam

[Necrowolf93]

Great Video as always! :D