Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.018)

The first installment of a three-part lesson in how to count and play your way through 12-bar blues changes. Required: a copy of "Harp Attack," a 1990 Alligator Records release.

If you'd like to purchase a copy of my new solo album, KICK AND STOMP (2010), please hit the following link. Only $10 for 14 tracks of harp-powered one-man band music, all for instant download. Liner notes included!:

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


For a FREE color-coded 12-bar template to accompany this lesson, please go to:

http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/2722580-Documents-eBooks-Music-Tutorials

For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tabs focusing on classic blues harmonica repertoire by Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and others, please visit:

http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com

Category:

Howto & Style

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• blues
• harmonica
• harp
• Satan
• and
• Adam
• Gussow

[BikerBucko]

Wow. Thanks Adam. I have been mucking around with the Blues Harp for a while, but with no lessons and no idea, well, I was shit. Watching your stuff has had some real lightbulb moments and Just over the space of a week my playing has improved dramatically.

This though was really great!  It made it so simple and clear. I really am starting to understand now.

[KudzuRunner]

That's great to hear. I like these sorts of stories! When I began this series of lessons, I hoped to kick as many people as possible into a new level by simply clarifying some of this basic but crucial stuff that sometimes gets ignored.

[lakecharlesfrankie]

This is great.Thank you Adam for the great lessons. I purchased your Classic Blues CD yesterday and the download went fine. I want to purchase more of your mp3s like #018,019, 020 just to put on my mp3 player and listen to when driving to work etc. I need to get all of this in my head and retain all of it. My question is: Why do they call some of these blues forms AAB, AA A/B, and A B/A C forms? I Can you help me understand this?

Thanks....Frank

[KudzuRunner]

I don't know anything about those other two blues forms you mention. The only other common blues is an 8-bar form.

[lianxin0216]

GOOD

[KudzuRunner]

Thanks, guys.

[yaguarete167]

nobody explain like you seriously, trust me you are the best

[jsc1227]

I'm so grateful these are available, I always had a great album collection, and saw the greats, but I would only reach a certain plateau in my playing and die. Never get better. I never had the funds to take lessons, but the old greats probably couldn't either. That you again adam these are fantastic.

[wajang1000]

This has to be the best explanation of the 12 bar blues progression I have ever come across, and I have come across many over the years. Little wonder it has created light bulb moments for the viewers.

[AndonMie]

Can you find a sort of sheet music for this? It seems to be one note in fourths and each bar is a measurement? (Currently learning music, this seems to be a scale)

[brikinahonix]

I can't thank you enough for your lessons God bless

[rmachayes]

Thank you Adam for your gracious effots, it is much appreciated. It helps to have a passion in your work, and it is obvious that you do. This is what separates you from others, maybe JP Allen displays such passion. You have taught me a few things that have really helped me in learning the basic harmonica fundamentals.

[huachiman7]

In addition to inspiring me to play the harmonica, you've inadvertently inspired me to sneak a guitar into my office at work.

[michy899]

Thanks heaps!! That's made it all made sense

[hessonr]

Having to return to this series of lessons & practice (re 12 bar counting) after realizing that I stopped practicing before feeling the changes became instinctual. I think I practiced this active listening for about 2 months at least a year ago. Any thoughts on how much time a day for how many days one would have to actively count along with blues recordings until one could go to a jam and feel the changes instinctively? Perhaps I should move these sort of questions to the forum, haha.

[Mahaim13]

man! I never fully understood it until this video thanks Adam!

[toddallenhooper]

Grat stuff!

[legopoof]

hey, if you could post some more awesome harp albums that would be awesome

thanks