Ask Instructor David Barrett

I know you're working on a lot of other lessons right now but I'd love to see a short "Switching Harps mid song" Video Lesson.  It seems trivial but it would be great to see visual tips on the actual process of how to quickly swap harps quickly (diatonic to diatonic, chromatic to diatonic) mid song.  

-Taylor

Hi David,

As we delve deeper into our Professional Studio Recording Studies, I keep thinking that a James Harman interview would be great someday.  I'm sure he's probably already on your list though.

-Taylor

Hi David, I have the Amazing Slow Downer and Audacity. Is there any way of slowing the speed of a Jam track using the ASD and transfering this to Audacity.

Thank you for your help,

Paul

On bar 1  the pool that followw 5+ is it exhale or inhale ?

Thank you .

I'm having trouble with breath control on the lump bassline. I find myself running out of breath by the end, due to the number of draw notes. I know there are so many reasons to use 2 instead of 3+, but would it be okay to substitute 3+ at times, in this case? I'm just doing a bassline in the background, so I think it would be okay to alternate bars between 2 and 3+.

Hello, I have been playing the guitar for 12 years and decided to learn to play the harmonica, got a Hohner J.J. Milteau blues harmonica as a gift from my girlfriend which contained a free 1 month membership for your site and decided it was definitely worth to contitnue the subscription. Keep it up!

As for the question- how do you positon your tongue to play the examples 1-9 for SHS 1?

Edit: Specifically i was thinking of one note examples- 1,3 and 8.

Thanks!

Happy Birthday Dave! Thank you for all that you do for us.

-Taylor

Hi David! Wonder  what tuning you have on your harps,  and who do them for you ?  BTW: Happy Birthday to you, have great day !! Thanks/Micha.

When writting the actual notes on the the lines of sheet music...how do you know......

1. Whether  to make the line extending from the note go up or down ?

  (example 4.4 - the first note 'C' - the line extends down from the note and in example 4.5 the first note 'A',

     th line extends UP from that note)

2. What side of the note to extend the line from (in front of the note or in back of the note)

  (example 4.4 - the first note 'C' the line comes off of the FRONT of that note and example 4.5 the first note continue reading...

Is the requirement for LOA 5 only one of the three examples suggested? When I work through an LOA I like to work on each topic every day. So given that at this level I'm spending months on on LOA I'll have lots of time to do the three examples suggested. Any pitfalls to be avoided if I decide to work on even more of Solo Harmonica Study 3? Thanks!