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What's New: Movement Exercises Study 1 - Patterns

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In this lesson you'll learn how to move around the entire range of your harmonica using your home scale (A Major Scale on your A Major Harmonica). We'll dig into Movement and Breath Patterns as well as how you can use your jaw to facilitate greater ease of motion and speed in your playing. This is lesson will benefit all skill levels of players. You'll need an Harmonica for this study (advanced players will also need the B-Flat Harmonica). Videos Include: Section 1 - Breathing, Movement, Ear Training & Mental Model: Introduction to Movement Patterns; Recognizing Breathing and Movement Patterns in Music; Developing a Mental Model; Ear Training; Section 2 - Movement Scale: Example 1 - Middle Octave; Example 1 - Upper Octave; Example 1 - Lower Octave; Example 1 - Entire Range; Section 3 - Movement & Breathing Patterns: Example 2 - Jaw Movement, Part 1; Example 2 - Jaw Movement, Part 2; Example 3 - Movement vs. Pattern; Example 4; Example 5; Example 6; Section 4 - Application; Section 4 - Application; Closing to Movement Patterns