Ask Instructor David Barrett

Hello David,

HarpNinja does not show octaves and now that I am on LOA #7 I would like to have a visual guide when working on the 3-7, 4-8, 5-9, 6-10 octaves. Can you recommend another APP?

Thanks Michael W (Oakley69)

David,

I can repeat a rhythm by ear, but I often struggle to recreate it from sheet music.

How do I approach shuffle where notes are in different length?

Do I shuffle eight-notes only? What about Quarter-notes? Triplets?

What if there is mixture of different note lenghts?

Bar 2 of 5th Chorus of Temperature, or even more interesting bars 1-3 of Chorus 6th as an example...

Dave,

My son bought me an amazon fire hd 10 tablet. Do you know if there is a way to get harpninja on this type of tablet. This tablet offers an app called a bendometer. Do you know if this is any good?

If I cant get it to work on the type of tablet I have, will it download to a regular gateway pc that uses windows. Which of the 2 versions do you recommend?

hi david,

I've been working on 'half-stepping' for a few weeks now.  It sounds very good at 80-90 bpm or so, but when I try to speed it up to tempo I'm just having trouble nailing the bends without the notes sliding together into a sloppy innaccurate mush.

Do you have any tips besides continued slow practice of the song and the chromatic scale?

thanks so much,

anthony

Im making good progress, but still have a few questions on positions

1- I understand the idea of playing second position as it adds bluesy tones and still affords good harmonization with a band.  I heard you say one time that (for example) 3rd pos would a solution if the Band was playing X...  Can you amplify on the choice of 1, 2 or 3rd position relative to the key the band plays in aside from tonal objectives? continue reading...

Hi!

I was wondering what I was doing wrong with exercise 1.12 of Solo Study #1 (very catchy pattern, by the way). I can't take more than 4 bars before runnning out of air in my lungs and drown!

Is there any obvious advice or something I may have missed as a beginner with the harmonica?

Thank you for your time and greetings from Barcelona. Your lessons are great!

David Hi

I have tried a few times without success to upload my LOA5.  The Error message saying unable to reach this page. Would you like me to email it. If so I would need to send a couple to spread the size.

Hello Mr. Barrett .

Alan here with another question for you .

Can you please teach me how to play solos for blues ,country and rock music?

Regards ,

Alan Samuel

 David Hi, I have been recording my improvisation LOA5 section for submission in a piecemeal way recording discreet Chorus Forms as I found suitable material. But having reread your submission requirements I now think your expectation was for a completed piece chorus 1 through to 6 as a continuous piece. Could you confirm that is what you expect? Whilst most of it is in one piece I had not included an AAA (head) thinking I would find something that I felt more suitable.

Hi David, Im a bit confused on exercise 3.5 of Theory 2 for Third Position.  

Im referencing the graphic 3.3 with the Dorian scale beginning on D (1 draw).  I see how the scale goes up and it makes sense (at least on paper)

I then try to do the scale degree exercise in 3.5 and Im off.  

1) The third scale degree would be 2" but you show it as 2'

2) Likewise I dont understand 3' as 6b when I dont see that note on the scale.  

This seems amzingly complex and confustion.