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Thanks to fellow student Gene for sharing this. I just watched this yesterday on Prime video and it was great. continue reading...

Featuring…Mark Hummel, Curtis Salgado, Sweet Marta, Nick Moss and Dennis Gruenling.
Special guests: Rodrigo Mantovani, Wes Starr & Bob Welsh

• 2/14 Paradise, CA Performing Arts Ctr
• 2/15 Medford, OR Craterian Theater at the Collier Center for the Performing Arts
• 2/16 Eugene, OR Macdonald Theatre
• 2/ 18 Mt Vernon, WA Lincoln Theatre
• 2/ 19 Seattle Triple Door
• 2/20 Seattle Triple Door
• 2/21 Poulsbo, WA Poulsbo Jazz & Blues Fest
• 2/22 Tacoma, WA Airport Tavern
• 2/23 Bend, OR Tower Theatre
• 2/25 Sacramento, CA The Sofia
• 2/26 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coachouse continue reading...

GarageBand is an intuitive recording program that comes preinstalled on Macs. In this lesson you'll learn how to record yourself playing a study song for submission at BluesHarmonica.com. Study includes: Importing a study song jam track into GarageBand as a backing track; recording a harmonica track; editing and mixing your track; changing the length and key of a track; and exporting a track as an MP3 for submission.

This lesson is taught by fellow advanced student, Frank Rabeler (thanks Frank!). To dig into this study, visit: https://www.bluesharmonica.com/recording_garageband_mac

Joe Filisko and Eric Noden just released their newest recording project titled "Let's Go." To check it out visit: https://rootsduo.com/lets-go-joe-filisko-eric-noden/

In the latest installment of the Vintage Tube PA Chronicles with Brian Akamine, Brian restores and modifies a grey Masco ME-18. You can watch this at https://www.bluesharmonica.com/vintage_pa_head_chronicles

Neil Warren interviewed me this week for the 'Happy Hour Harmonica’ podcast and it just released:
https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/david-barrett-interview

He’s interviewed over 100 harmonica players, and they're all pretty inspiring to listen to. Thanks Neil.

In this lesson you’ll learn: how to identify pickups in the songs that you study; to play pickups from a half beat to as long as two bars in length; to play pickups that lead to the root notes of each common chord in the blues; to play universal pickups (pickups that work to lead well to any lick); to play pickups that lead to the common notes on the harmonica (a catalog of licks); how pickups are used to help the licks in your solos to flow better from one lick to the other; and most importantly, how intuitively feel in time where pickups start (we’ll do tons of reps together). continue reading...

In this study we talk about areas of focus important to Level 10 students, as well as a list of Blues Standards, which are essential for those interested in performing live. To watch this lesson go here: https://www.bluesharmonica.com/lessons/practice_study_10

In this study we dig into a sample weekly practice schedule for Level 9 students. To watch this lesson go here: https://www.bluesharmonica.com/lessons/practice_study_9

In this study we dig into a sample weekly practice schedule for Level 8 students and for motivation, we speak to fellow BluesHarmonica.com advanced student (LOA Level 9) David Light about his journey into joining a band and making his first CD. To watch this lesson go here: https://www.bluesharmonica.com/lessons/practice_study_8