Modern Blues Harmonica - advisory/lesson (Gussow.059)

Final tune-up before Gussow takes the show on the road. Quick-hit lesson on how to use the 3 blow like a juke-joint pro.

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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:

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• blues
• harmonica
• harp
• lesson
• Satan
• Adam
• Gussow

[psilopsych]

Hey Adam I've gotta huge question

Do you do private lessons on skype? I am living in Ecuador at the moment and there are no real blues players that can teach me here :(

Keep up the great work

[KudzuRunner]

@psilopsych: No, I don't. But you should visit my website, Modern Blues Harmonica. I've got a page called "harmonica teachers." It's a list of the best harmonica teachers in America--truly the cream of the crop. Several of the players there (Dennis Gruenling, Chris Michalek, etc.) give Skype lessons.

[nikolajpotanin]

Hello Adam! Thanks for the new lesson. One question - do you customise all of your harps? I mean gapping, embossing etc. Was that Hohner MB "C" right out of the box?

[KudzuRunner]

It was right out of the box. Actually, I did open up the 1,2,3, and 4 draw reeds a little. That's it. Amazing harp. I'm still waiting for the harp that can compare to a garden variety Marine Band--at least when you get a good 'un. I've got a high G that is almost unplayable....

[robbie20sa]

Thanks Adam. Loving the Videos. Learning heaps of little riffs that i hum away even when i dont have a harp on me haha.

ive been a bit hooked on this little number i heard on some video. not sure if it was one of yours tho.

3 3 -3 4 -4 ...... -5 5 -5 5 -4 4 -4 4 -3 3 -3 -3 3

[hohner2010]

Hi Adam i would love to thank you millions and millions, i follow you with different videos every morning before i practice with my c.d tracks and again at night for 3 to 4 hours daily. I love the car spots where you take me and everyone else to see parts of the other side of the world. i would like to ask you are you able to show me and everyone else how to pop the harp!, sonny terry uses it n i made my own way of doing it but would like to find out the actual right way to perform this please.

[kevin462]

i play the guitar, and this is wayyy harder than i thought it was gonna be.... but i guess its just like everything else. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

[carraldo37]

thank you very much from france

[bigguys49]

great video series, Very fun and interesting how little things mean a lot! I've learned more in a few day than I did in 40 years of messing around

[flameturret64]

Dude you are so freakin' cool haha xD

"You'll tell people where you learned it, right?"

Thanks a lot. I learned so much from this video!

[darkdave25]

The tag on the herbal tea bag I've just brewed up says "Where there is mastery there is no mystery"

Made me think of Mr.Gussow