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levels of achievement

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Tue, 02/22/2022 - 03:25
Camelot
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I would like to say what a great webb site, i have been studying for about nine weeks and am really enjoying it. I get a bit confused at times, because when i look at some of the work your students are doing [your wife and Bob holdsworth) it is different to the work in the levels of achievement programme, why is this. obviously i dont want to miss out on any of the lessons. secondly where do i find the pdfs for the daily warm up lessons you have created, i couldn't find them. many thanks

 

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Tue, 02/22/2022 - 07:28
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David Barrett
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Thank you Camelot, I'm glad

Thank you Camelot, I'm glad that you're enjoying the lessons. Because these are private lessons for an individual, I do need to taylor the lesson slightly to their needs and every now and again go into a slightly different direction. If you look at the top of Sharon's page (https://www.bluesharmonica.com/contributor/sharon-barrett), you'll see the PDF for the Daily Exercises.

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Sat, 03/05/2022 - 12:36
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Where to start?

I can bend fairly well and can play along to Stormy Monday

where should I start?

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Sat, 03/05/2022 - 19:26
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Hello Gsegar, welcome to the

Hello Gsegar, welcome to the site.

I designed the site for you to dig into any series of interest. Click on Lessons and then View Alphabetically. If you want to better your accompaniment skills, jump into that series for example. Start a series from Study 1 (you don't want to miss important concepts).

Your core technique lessons are the bending and tongue blocking lessons. I recommend you take a listen to one of the bending study songs (Bending Study 4 for example) and see if it's an appropriate challenge. Do the same with tongue blocking (Tongue Block Study 3 for example). Both of the those skills need to develop together.

All else fails, start from the beginning... this way you won't miss anything (and it will be a great review).

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