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He just adores the jam tracks. He sings better than I can play, gets the rhythms and in key spot on! He's really good at pickup notes and has the Charleston rhythm down pat. You should hear his flutters! He also definitely has more soul. 

Why you should have a tongue trainer, the pluses and minuses of making your own and things to consider. continue reading...

Does anyone have the sheet music and tabs for Sweet Home Chicago in cross harp? I've tried to find the full song but all I've found is the full song (tabs only) in first position. It seems incongruous to me that I am having such trouble finding a blues standard in cross harp; I would think this would be common. 

Anyway, I'd really prefer it in sheet music and tabs but will take what I can get and wing it with tabs only or add tabs to sheet music if necessary. 

Thanks in advance,

Ace

 Can anyone help me figure out the opening riff to Billy Boy Arnolds song Rockin' it is? I just love that intro.  I have tried but my ears are not good enough yet to figure it out yet.  

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Hello,

i want to ask how important is the body/mouth size (volume) of the player for good tone?

I'm rather a slim person and i wondered, if someone with more body size has a better tone from the beginning or can everybody who tunes the mouth and everything else to the pitch, archive a good/fat tone?

Thanks alot & best regards

Hello All,

I'm looking to purchase a small (around 5w or less) amplifier that I can use for practice at low volume. It needs to be small and reasonably portable as I travel around a lot so I'm looking at amps like the Yamaha THR5, Boss Katana Mini. It's unlikely that I will be able to try the amplifier before purchasing so recommendations are very welcome.  I have a Lone Wolf 'Harp Attack' pedal which I can use with the amplifier if required.

- Jim

I use a program called Anytune which is a more modern adaptation of Amazing Slow Downer.   

I there anyway to get a you tube audo into such a product without having the basic file?  Can I record it on Garage Band and then input the resulting file? 

Are there any sites for harmonica in a genre other than blues?  I play a lot of country and bluegrass and it seems like there's nothing out there.  I retune all of my harps to paddy richter because country required a lot more melody...and I thought I was pretty much committing a sin until I learned that Charlie McCoy does the same thing sometimes although his standard is country tuning.  I have a full blues set and don't plan on giving that up, but there are better tunings for the type of music I'm interested in and very little instruction on playing it. continue reading...

Hi everyone!

I just finished transcribing my first song by ear! That was a lot of fun! It is Roy Orbison's 'Candy Man', key of G. I also had a crack at writing down the music (first time writing music, also - I know there are some errors in there, but I got a bit lost and wasn't quite sure how to write it :)). There is a link below to the PDF - thought you guys and girls might be interested, it has some fun licks in it, plus a couple of easy bends. Let me know what you think. Enjoy! continue reading...

A very good friend of mine recently gifted me a vintage 12-hole Marine Band harmonica that used to belong to his dad. It would be from the late '60's or early '70's, I think. My question for this forum (I'll be posting another in the Tech forum), what is the tuning on this compared to a 10-hole Richter-tuned diatonic? It has "C" stamped on it, so I'm assuming it to be C major diatonic, but certainly goes lower. continue reading...