General Discussion

Hi everyone. I'd like to get to know fellow students on this site. My name is Albie. I live in the Dallas area and have been playing for about 8 years. For the last 2 or 3 years I've totally plateaued in my learning and it's been tough to get out if that rut. 

I decided to start this course from level one and work my way back up and it's already been extremely helpful with some fundamental stuff I'd developed bad habits with. 

I have a YouTube channel here. 

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Hi,

Whos heading to Trossingen for the masterclass next week? I'll be in trossingen early, from monday night onwards. If anyone else is there early and fancies meeting up for some food or a jam let me know.

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If I want to be in tune with sonny's track, and I guess he used 2nd position there (correct me if im wrong please), which key harmonica should I get?

I looked here in the website and other places but there isn't anything conclusive, some playe it on a low D harp, and some on a low C, and some on low F.... I know you can play it on everything but I just want to know what you should get in order to be in tune with the track itself.

Thanks in advance.

There is so much great content here, it takes quite an effort just to go through it all! While I haven't watched everything yet, I've made a pretty good effort to go through as much as I can and I thought it would be a great thread topic for people to post some of their favorites.. Anything from a great performace to good educational stuff to whatever made a strong impression on you.. I'll start with a few. Hopefully these links will work, I"ll put in a description too.

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While on vacation recently I came across a brand new Sonny Terry CD for 4 Euros so grabbed it. I'm reasonably familiar with Sonny Terry having bought a Sonny and Brownie album more than 40 years ago and being a Joe Filisko fan. The whoopin' and hollerin' thing still eludes me though. Sonny sings quite a bit and has a really good blues voice. Was there something about the 30's and 40's that made the falsetto and its variations popular? Was it a fad? Was Sonny doing something through the harmonica that was a display of unusual technique? 

Hey harpers,

I'm new to this website and so far I'm loving it. I just wanted to share this video with the community. It's about Robbie Robertson (Canadian musician, Bob Dylan's guitarist) talking about the day he met Sonny Boy Williamson II. The story in general is amazing, but what really gripped me was the racial question it brought up. It was quite sad. Check it out.

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Though the music Stevie Wonder plays may not be strictly blues, his harmonica playing is a great inspiration to me.

I never found any interview with him specifically on harmonica technique and improvising.

His playing and comping is amazing, e.g some live performances with Sting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9R4egeg_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZgNYoZkeU

Any chance at all that David Barrett could ask him a few questions?

I was fortunate to have been asked to assist with a video project by a friend for a video that was being created. The discovery of a missing WW2 airplane in a remote part of Vancouver Island  initiated the concept of the project by Nick Versteeg, a local videographer. 

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Hi everyone. Does anyone have any experience with recording on the Audacity application? Ive been messing around with levels and my mic, but the harmonica still sounds really buzzy and awful. I think that I might need a better mic as the one that im using is a very cheap webcam :( Would be great to hear from you if you know anything about this. Thanks!

I hear reference to Artist Studies but cannot find them on the site.  Could someone please direct me?  Thanks!