Ask Instructor David Barrett

Hi David,

  I missed this somewhere along the way.  I just moved onto LOA 4   :  )

There is some mention about ' unlocking ' a song when you graduate a level.

I don't think I have done this for LOA 1 - 3 .  How does this work ?...Upon completing

a certain level you received a code or some sort to ' unlock' access to a song

and its sheet music/videos ? Do you e-mail  that code / key to the individual ?  and then

where is the song/where do you type in the key  ?

  Thank you for your time continue reading...

Hi David,

I really hate to seem dense but I am not at all sure what you are asking for in Ex 2.1 of the written test for level three. Can you please explain?

Thank You for your help.

Hi David, Firstly I love this course, You've clearly worked very hard getting this right, well done and thank you.

However, there is a point I'm just not getting, I hope you can help please.

I'm working though Music Theory Study 1 - Basics of Music, I'm on Section 2, Ex.2.4 there i'm told three notes are not available and i understand they are available by Bending, However what i don't understand is this, How are those notes replaced? continue reading...

hi  teacher  their    lessons   are very good, but I wonder if there is any way of putting on these subtitles in Spanish because I do not mastered very well  the  the English    thank you  for  you   time 

Hi David, in the levels of achievemen, am I crazy, or do these studies skip from study 3 to 7? Are there not a 4,5, and 6?

Hi David,

I just started the Levels of Achievement and have watched the first couple of instructional videos on Tongue-Blocking. In the videos you describe blocking holes 1 through 3 to play single note hole 4. But I noticed in your book “Building Harmonica Technique”, the chapter on tongue-blocking describes playing a single note using tongue-blocking as having your lips over three holes and blocking two of the holes with your tongue.

In your "Walk With Me" video are you blocking two holes or three? Does it just boil down to personal preference, or mouth- and tongue-size? continue reading...

Deer teacher

I prepare my first recording setup for "Walk with me". I try to copy same sound quality from your original But someting is missing. I dont know why. I whould like to record with my new bullet mic shure 520 inside garage band. It is possible your recording is acoustic with another kind of microphone with some effect (reverb,delay)?

thank you

Good Morning David,

I notice that on the final vocal chorus at 3:23 there are three V IV I turnarounds, can this be employed for any accompaniament, or is it just unique to this study song.

Many thanks,

Paul

Hi David,

 I am working through the Level 4 material on Chorus forms. I am only through the AAA material but I've been wondering about how turnarounds fit into the Chorus concept. Are turnaround added on after the chorus form or perhaps omitted?  Or does the repeated phrase serve as the turnaround?   If you discuss this somewhere maybe you can point me in the right direction.

Cheers,

Andrew

Hey Dave. I've always observed that third position playing had a different sound quality or timbre (is that the word) than second position. It's not just the fact that "home" is on a different hole or that the three draw is a mystery there. 

I mean the sound quality is jazzier sounding. More like that of a saxophone perhaps. Very hard to describe. I was just wondering if there's some musical phenomenon going on there that I wasn't aware of. Thanks