Modern Blues Harmonica: How to Comp (Back In The Game)

Harp-guy Adam Gussow previews the new Satan & Adam album, BACK IN THE GAME, and offers tips on how to comp--accompany a singer/guitarist on harp--without stepping on the vocals.

You can find out more about BACK IN THE GAME by hitting this link:

http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/satan_and_adam_back_in_the_game.html

If you're interested in learning how to play blues harmonica, you might want to check out my website:

http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com

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[RomstarOrion]

Well, I'll be damned.

Ever since I started watching your videos something kept nagging at the back of my brain. You looked like someone I had seen before. Given where you live though, I figured that wasn't the case. Now I know I have seen you before. At the Busker's Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

That was a long time ago, and you guys just keep getting better. You have a gift, not only as a harp player, but as a teacher.

Please, keep doing what you are doing.

[Bluzer86]

Loved the intro :) , great video.

[mrdannygb1606]

If a lot of doctors lived by the hippocrate oath like you do on your teaching well do i have to say how much better we would be!thank you for your generous giving!

[odelay12v]

Just started my download of your new album Thanks! it rocks and so do yall! 

[jfratusboston]

Thanks for this Adam. You inspire my harp playing. Keep it coming!

[chicagojoe00]

Great instructional video, Adam. Very helpful to us beginners.I'm finding that 3' 2 3" 2 backside measure in your 2 bar riff to be a great workingman notation that keeps surfacing- I'm going to get some mileage out of this, like I do your other videos. Great advice on volume, position and the Hippocratic oath! Keep teaching and we'll keep learning, and congrats on your new album- I'll pick it up.

[BrotherPaul57]

sage advice to all that wail over stuff without thinking where the songs going , as i'm mainly on guitar these days i record the harp to comp and also fill in with the guitar when needed , as you might have already said , it's all about leaving space and keeping the backbeat swinging along not about saying look at my wonderful playing but taking the song and adding the hot sauce drip by drip instead of drizling it on and blowing the roof of your mouth off in one go ! interesting analogy !

[MrCaptainComfort]

Adam is great; the harp, a teacher, and human being

[LutherRay]

Back in the Game is a a very good CD. I listened to driving from Mobile to Montgomery and back. I especially like 2 tracks...

Broke And Hungry

and a creeper sounding song called Fever. I've been humming it since.

[fongie]

@StevenRHaz tongueblocking the 3 and 4, search his vids for tongueblocking and you'll find what you seek =)

[sonnydaneils4885]

i did the same thing with my old band i know when he is singing "he is singing and my spot light shut down for the moment if you know what i mean" it is very hard not to show what you can do but my master would tell me pick you spots and stick them and soon i got it thank for this video --sonny