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Hi everyone, I just joined as a newbie harp player (came from blues guitar) and have a quick question I want to think about before I really jump in with standard Richter tuning... I know it's best that I learn to play along with these lessons (and other lessons as well) using standard Richter tuning, but I can't help thinking in the back of my head I might want to change to a more personal, customised tuning soon... continue reading...

I’m lucky enough to be spending a couple of weeks in the Bay Area and the end of June, start of July. It’s a late honeymoon for my wife and I. 

I’d appreciate any tips on bluesy gigs, jams, music bars/events etc. Or really any cool places to visit or stuff to do while we’re there. 

We’ll be based in San Francisco (27 June - 5 July) and San Jose (6 -  11 July) I’ve already managed to book a lesson with Barrett so that’s sorted :) continue reading...

Hello All,

I am not sure of this has been discussed before since there is not search option in the forum (or maybe I am not looking for the search option in the right location).

Came across many posts in different forums where several people mentioning fire breath and praising it. I also came to know that its discontinued. So thought would ask the amazing people of this forum some questions that I have regarding the same.

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Since starting lessons here, I quickly discovered that I would want several harmonicas is keys other than C. Anyway, I've gone to mostly Lee Oskar harmonicas. The other day I was doing some tongue-blocking exercises and wanted to work with my Low F. I found that the 2 draw, 3 draw and 4 draw reeds seem to take a moment to start vibrating after I start to draw air through them. I've not noticed this on my G or any others. I thought that maybe just because of the long reeds, it might need more air (which is how it seems), but the 1 draw seems to be fine. continue reading...

Hello guys , this is a great forum and resource , is there still a link somewhere that lists the songs-keys-harps used on many classic blues songs . Ive searched but cant find it . Thanks  

Is anyone using the sjoberg Harp tuner?  Ive decided to learn and custimize my own harmonicas. One question I have is if you need both reed plates together to get a accurate tuning.

Ive been using Harpninja for some time and find it great for learning to bend.  I can see there is a lot more to this than simply doing bends.  I watched the tutorials and still came away confused.

Im an intermediate player so I still spend nearly all my time in second postion.  So that obviously means if Im on my A harp second postion Im in the key of E.  So I set Harp Key to A and display Key to E and display scale ot Mixolydian.  

Questions include

- What do I do with Display Chord on the Settings screen? continue reading...

Hi to all,

I learnt to play harmonica here and then started to put it together with the guitar.

I share my youtube channel so you can see how far you can go practising with consistent study.

enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAjK8kxZy5OAiS9FPsEzDZg

Im about to submit my first story song for Dave's review.  Any tips on what to expect and how to get the most out of the experience?  Im submitting MyBlues which I consider to be a pretty challening chart.

Hi, does anyone here play to accompany themselves on bonjo? I`ve just started 5 string banjo and I can`t sing to save my life so would really like to learn to play along with harmonica. I play 3 finger style, mainly bluegrass, swing, folk, oldtime etc so not sure whether blues harp is the best discipline. I`d like to start with learning the fundamentals anyway but don`t want to head out in completely the wrong direction if it`s going to make problems for me later. I`m totally new to harmonica , not sure about keys etc so any advice at all would be massively appreciated. Thanks all