Ask Instructor David Barrett

dear David

is smoking a negative point in playing harmonica? 

I am on LOA3 and getting some bends but not sure if I am 'getting there' or not so I'd like some feedback. I think I read somewhere it is ok to send you material to listen to that isn't the finished test, but can't find the info about that or how to submit it. Thanks.

In the LOAs, it appears that the Improv Study 3 in Level 7 jumps to Improv Study 7 in Level 8. So where are Improv Studies 4, 5 & 6? I'm specifically looking for Study 5 on Turnarounds. Thank you

Hi David,

As you have stated, I am learning all the licks that I like from the study songs and putting them into chorus form. The problem that I'm now having is that when I place the licks that I like into an instrumental (I am using the track from the split at the moment) the instrumental doesn't flow musically as do your songs (Although I do recognise the fact that you have been doing it for many years and I haven't). 

Am I missing something from the tutorials.

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Is there a lesson plan I can see with (learn these scales) I may have missed it ? I am studing your loa 2 course now.

I,am a few weeks on your site . It is great,  but now i want to send you the recordings for loa 1 and loa 2  but I "hate " to fill down all teory stuff :) It is nesesery or you thing that i should do it ?

M.

Hello Mr. Barret,

I have been doing your lessons for awhile now. On other instruments I have played, single notes are articulated with a nonsense syllable like "TA" or "DA." Is there something similar for the harmoncia?

Thanks,

harpsquealer

Hi,

I just found your lessons and I love them.

My problem is that im going to be working away for a few months with little or no internet access. Do you offer a way to buy/download the videos to keep on my laptop so i can access the material when im away?

Thanks

Ian

Dear David

I would just like to know where to begin if I have a C harmonica.

Hi Dave

Could you help me with the notation in ex.1 in cupping and hand affects study.

In bar 4 line 2 the notation appears to indicate a two 1/4 note space plus a 1/4 note space but within a triplet. Therefore are the  two Wa Wa's two eight notes or is there  three 1/4 note spaces with another 1/3 of a triplet space followed with two "triplet notes"? Or is it a triplet 1/4 as per Ex13 in rhythm training and the 1/4 note rest  symbol actually a 2/3rds of a note rest in this context? Simililarly with bar 3 of line 3.

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