Introduction and overview

Introduction to this first section

DAY 1 Which harmonica do I need

Let's get to it!

Your first Blues Riff

How to practice - quick and dirty

DAY 2 Holding the harmonica and breathing

DAY 4 How to play single notes pucker style

DAY 3 Chords, Chugging, Trainsounds

Cleaning your harmonica - here's how, but brush your teeth before you play!

DAY 5 how to play single notes tongue blocking

DAY 7 playing scales

DAY 6 Starting to bend notes

Quiz alert

Outro and wrapping up this section

Promo movie

first easy exercise

zzaka tikka

Whistles

Goanese Trainsounds

Salty Holmes

Would you do me a small favour

George Bullet Williams

Interview with Peter Treeby - he drove Flying Scotsman (google it)

Trainsound with shakers

Silly sounds

Palmer McAbee

Flying Scotsman

Outro - wrapping up the trainsounds section

Metronome track

Quiz alert

Trailer movie

Introduction to the Blues

bar blues theory

A little chord theory before we play

Blues story - more downloads in this lecture

Review check

Playing the chords - many downloads in this lecture

Blues chugging

Bending hole 1

Single note lines - harder

Learning to bend hole 4

Note Bending - hole 6

Single note lines - easy

Walking thru the blues alt video to 4th lecture in this section

Final chorus using bent notes a little

Bonus - a bit of Sonny Terry for you

Breathing

Introduction to getting great tone

Haha Hoohoo breathing exercise

More on mouth cavity tonal changes

Changing the inside of the mouth (wee ahh)

Bad tone and good tone

Vocal Tract

Height of the tongue

Breathing and posture

Vibrato, hot air and pulsing the breath

Hands and bones

Relax! plus use of teeth

Which harmonica to use for best tone

Phil's playing - what's changed

Phil playing - at the beginning and end of the session

Wrapping up the the section on TONE

See Phil working on his tone

trailer for the Blues course

Introduction

Counting the 12 bar blues and looking at the dots

Learning the second line

Learning the first 8 notes

Practising the first 4 bars

Here are some other variants - MUST SEE - doubling up

Learning the last line

Here are a few ideas on how to vary your improvisation

Cul-pa or 'Cool Pa' tongue blocking

Here's the trailer

Second pattern - holes 12&3

Easy patterns - First pattern - holes 1&2 only

Fourth pattern 1234&5

Third pattern 123&4

Fifth pattern 12345&6

Ta-ah

Ta-ah-ah

Sonny Terry rhythm

Figaro

JJ Milteau lick

Bends, over-blows and wrapping up this section

Promotional movie and trailer

Who taught John Lennon

Kids playing the riff - join in!

That FAMOUS riff!

McCartney's tune

Lennon's tune

Bridge - harder

Pleeeese

Bridge - easy

Harmonies on one harmonicaoutro

Here's how to improvise on this tune

Easy - promo movie

Sing through

Second line

The first line

Third Line

Turnaround

Playthrough

Dynamics

Verse 4 - heavy duty bending

Outro and wrapping up this section

Promotional movie

Demonstration of all bends possible

Zoomed out overview of bending

Intro to the course - bending holes 1-6

What if you only have one or two harmonicas

THE MOST IMPORTANT LECTURE HERE! My best ever tips and tricks on bending

How this part of the course works

How to bend hole 1 on all 12 harmonicas

How to bend hole 4

How to bend hole 5

How to bend hole 6

Bending practice using only the low octave

How to bend hole 3

How to bend hole 2

Outrobonus - what happens inside the body; MRI scans of bending

Promo and trailer - take a look

Introduction to this section of the course - why do you need to learn this

Basic bending principles

Blow bending hole 7

Blow bending hole 8

Blow bending hole 9

Blow bending hole 10

Piano view of all bending

Overblowing hole 6

Holes 1-5 overblow​​​

Tricks to make it easier

Full chromatic scale demonstration

Here's the great big bonus I was talking about!

Hole 7-10 overdraw

All 12 major scales demonstration

Ending this section. Watch me struggle on When the Saints in all 12 keys!

Let's look at some harmonica choices - good and bad

How to study this course

Intro to the first part

Starting out making sounds and playing blues right away, use any holes from 1-5

Breathing, tone, and chords

More breathing skills, rhythmic patterns

Origins of the harmonica

Chords - where are they and what can you do with them. Playing chordal tunes

Jambalaya

Ear training - Rhythm - the essence of music

New techniques - vibrato, tremolo, warble, head roll, playing with a shaker

Wrapping up this section

Decorating your music, ornamentation, tips and tricks

Retuning Your Harmonica

Maintaining Your Harmonica

Fixing your Harmonica

Introducing the next section

Easy note Box patterns

Tonguing notes

Scale of C on the 10hole

Extending box patterns

Smallest harmonica in the world - bonus

New and groovy scale excersises

Learning E minor - and the other modal scales

Learning Yankee Doodle

Learning The Can Can

Learning Amazing Grace

Learning Autumn Leaves

Learning Love Me Do

Learning Love me Tender

Bending hole 1

Checking out the first three positions

Overview of all 12 positions concentrating on the 7 modal positions

Bending holes 4, 5, and 6

Wrapping up this section

Bending hole 2

Bending hole 3

More on major pentatonics

Improvising with C, G, and F major pentatonic scales

Third position Dminor improvising

Converting minor pentatonic scales into blues scales - Dm to D blues

Converting minor pentatonic scales into blues scales Em to E blues

Converting major pentatonic scales into blues scales Gmajor to G blues

How to start constructing a solo

Going to a jam or session - how to approach it

Roles for the harmonica player at a session

Wrapping up this section

Sonny Terry session

Exploring the resonant cavity within

How to hold your harmonica, let's play some blues!

Meet 'Fat Tone'

Breathing, tone, and chords

More on tongue blocking

Figuring out the chords on your harmonica

Embouchure, aperture, using the tongue

Wrapping up this section and previewing the next

Chords - where are they and what can you do with them. Playing chordal tunes

Sonny Terry chugging

Decorating your sound like a pro

How to get all 20 single notes

How the harmonica arrived and what is an EMBOUCHURE

Bending hole 1 and learning the doh re mi scale

Wrapping up this section and previewing the next

Bending hole 4 and clever box patterns

Bending hole 6, Blues impro

How to improvise in 7 modal keys without bending notes

How to get draw bends on holes 1, 4 and 6

How to improvise in 7 keys without bending notes using pentatonic scales only

How to get draw bends on holes 2, 3 and 5

How to get blow bends on holes 7, 8, 9 and 10

Tongue blocking the blues

Overview of overblows and overdraws (overbending)

How to do Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller)'s tongue block style

Vamping - how to do it

How to do Tongue Block split 3, 4, and 5s

How to do tongue switching and the rolling block

How to use a metronome and tuner to help your playing

How to play some more Sonny Terry licks

Wrapping up this section and previewing the next

Learning Fireball Mail Part 1

Learning Fireball Mail Part 3

Learning Fireball Mail Part 2

Learning The Maids of Michelstown Part 1

Learning The Red Haired Boy Part 1

Learning The Maids of Michelstown Part 2

Learning The Red Haired Boy Part 2

Learning The Red Haired Boy Part 3

Learning Little Walter's Juke Part 2

Learning Little Walter's Juke Part 1

Learning Sonnyboy Williamson 2's Don't Start Me Talking

Learning Sonny Terry's Sitting On Top Of The World

Wrapping up this course