Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.005)

Adam Gussow (of Satan and Adam) plays "Unlucky in Love" and discusses the subtleties of tone on holes 1, 2, and 3.

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• blues
• harmonica
• harp
• lessons
• Satan
• Adam
• Gussow

[PutaMadreproductions]

Hi Adam, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. It's priceless. My question is: have you ever had any mouth or teeth problems because of the endless playing?

answers from fellow players are welcome too

[KudzuRunner]

@PutaMadreproductions: Definitely. My teeth are fine, but I've certainly had my share of fever blisters, cold sores, and the like. One of my incisors occasionally digs into the inside of my cheek, thanks to my hand-grip, and creates sores. I have four words for serious harp players: Burt's Bees lip balm!

[hohner2010]

Hi adam it's cain, iv tried to download a few pages and videos from your website as you have some sonny williamson tracks in one package. but does the download work on windows vista , because it say's apple? on the description so does this mean for the APPLE MAC ? if it does is it possible to have the sonny williamson tab { any of them you have } and JUKE and put these in a package so i may perchase them from you. i have had trouble watching the clips are they the same as on youtube or longer.

[KudzuRunner]

@hohner2010: I have many, many customers who download using Windows Vista, so I'm sure that's not a problem. As for the tabs and lessons themselves: I don't create custom packages for individual customers, but you should be able to "add to cart" when you go to tradebit to buy my stuff, so you shouldn't be inconvenienced.

[DocSixString]

hey adam, love your stuff man.

Question:why do you play a Bb harp? cause im a guitarist and of all the keys to play blues in, F isn't the easiest. Couldn't you just play an A harp for E blues? Or did Mr Satan (...the guitarist...) tune up a semitone or use a capo or did you just tell him to play in F. Maybe you prefer the feel of a Bb harp or maybe Mr Satan's vocal range suits F blues??

Sorry about all the questions... just love music and am interested!!

[KudzuRunner]

Two reasons:

1) When I started my video series, I happened to have a great Bb harp on hand. I decided to go with it.

2) I wanted to be different. This series was NOT for guitar players! Nor was it for beginners who would only have a C harp on hand. It was designed--and I noted this in my channel description on Day 1--for intermediate harp players who had "tried the rest," so to speak.

[pasqualebrow1230]

This video is a favorite on Montevideo

[skywardism]

You are truly a great musician. Thanks for all the inspiration

[russmassey615]

This video went viral on Lome

[chrisdavies23359]

Why not a tutorial for complete beginners, there areen't any good ones out there.

[dale0swenson]

I'm very excited to use your videos to learn harmonica. I've been playing bass guitar forever and want to try something different. I just watched this lesson and cannot for the life of me to figure out where some of the notes are that you obviously are playing. I'm using a Bb harp. You must be bending one of the reeds but which ones?

[snoookie456]

@skywardism lol... I use an A one XD

But it helps, cause I have Realtek Audio Manager, which has kind of a transpose function... so I just drop it to -1 and it's like he's playin in A XD

[terr3nce]

@KudzuRunner Oh yeah, love the cold sores :)



[Whatsisname3529]

I tried to order your Kick and Stomp album but it didn't give me the option to ship to APO or DPO addresses.

[skywardism]

I'm so glad you use a B flat. It was my first harp by accident ! Cheers