Ask Instructor David Barrett

Hi David:

How many BPM is the "walk with Me" sond in lesson one. I can not seem to get it right with my metronome. I need the non-slow version please.

thanks

jim

Hello David,

As you know i just started on Level 3 in the LOA program.   continue reading...

Hi David,

I'm practising Walk With Me and working towards Level 1.  After much practice and thinking I wasn't sounding too bad, I thought I would record myself and have listen. Oh...

Anyhow, one thing I noticed is when I move between some notes, I arrive at the next note a bit late.

It feels like my mouth gets to the next hole in time but my tongue is trailing behind, it's mainly when moving to a lower hole. continue reading...

hello! I just bought my C tunne harmonica and saw its needed the A to do the lessons. Can I do it with my harmonica? Thanks

Good afternoon David.   I'm looking for some motivation!!!   When you play Half Steppin, do you REALLY tongue block the entire song?   i.e. particularly the 3 draw whole step and a half, and the 2 draw whole step?   I can get to the half step bends on 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 but can't seem to get CLEAR bends, surely can't flutter or vibrato, the 3 whole and 3 whole and a half, and 2 whole.  Should I just pucker those?   Your notes come out so very clean and strong... is it just more and more practice?  Thanks

Hello David,

I have a problem with Solo Harmonica Study 1, Ex. 2.1, because of air leaking through my nose. I can play only two measures in a row and then I have to exhale. If I close my nose with my fingers, I can play 4 measures and even more easily.

I have read all your tips on closing the nose here in the forum, but nothing works for me when drawing more consecutive chords like in this piece. Would you advice an exercise to address and practice this particular problem?

Thank you very much,

Marek

Hi Dave,

I am working on the music theory section of the LOA-3 test, and I don't quite understand the task of the Ex. 2.1 chart that asks for hole numbers, and I'm not sure what lesson corresponds to it. Can you please clarify or point me in the right direction?

Thanks very much,

Pat

Hi David

For all the holes, except the one hole, i'm using tongue blocking. Puckering, if I'm doing that, works well for the one hole, and sets-up nicely for the 2 hole next. Is there a problem with that? If yes, any tip?

Michael

Hi David, 

Do you think LW is tongue blocking or puckering intro to Boom Boom?

I have hohner  silver star  10 holes key D harmonica so is it different than hohner silver star 10 holes key C harmonica? If yes then from which lesson should I start learning? And can you please tell me the difference between key C harmonica and Key D harmonica? Are they both different?