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Harmonica Masterclass Lessons and Site Plan

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Wed, 05/30/2012 - 08:55
TheKrowe
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Hi David!

I just bought the Harmonica Masterclass mother load to use as supplemental material for the coursework on this site, Could you where in the site lesson plans to use each of the books from the four Masterclass bundles?

Thanks!

Robert

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Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:26
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David Barrett
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Hello Robert. Great... you have a wealth of material now... it's now all about the time it takes to master it. The Harmonica Masterclass Lesson Series does not correlate with material on BluesHarmonica.com. You can of course use the books for further insight, exercises and songs... starting from the beginning. Keep in mind that the pucker embouchure is taught in the begging material in the books... ignore that and do everything taught in the books in a tongue block.

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Wed, 05/30/2012 - 11:20
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Why the change in approach from teaching pucker to tongue block?

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Wed, 05/30/2012 - 14:24
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More options and less headaches. If a player starts with the tongue block, or switches to using tongue blocking early on, they run into far less issues down the road with tone and mixture of techniques.

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