Ask Instructor David Barrett

A search lead me to the essay written by Mark Heffington. I believe I met him last month in San Jose. Very encouraging information. I was searching for how best to use LOA as that's the approach I plan to follow. My question is should each study in a level in the be completed before moving to the next study? For instance, should the song in Level 1 be finished before music theory or should these be approached concurrently? Thanks!

Hi David,

My name is Patricia Frizzell....I just went to movement exercise patterns.  I see the sheet music, but

how do I get the audio?  I did download the pdf....but I don't know what else to click on to get audio?

please help me...

Also, I loved the San Jose workshop.  Can't wait to come again next year.

thank you for reading my question.

Patricia

Hi David,

You previously explained to me that for the purpose of this exercise, when playing hole 2, for the V chord, draw 1 would be acceptable. Would this also be ok for playing hole 3 and hole 5.

Also for hole 5 what draw note would I be using for the I chord.

Kind Regards,

Paul

So I've been a pucker player for quite some time...although the bending technique is not mastered, I have fairly decent bending skills, not flawless by any means but decent. I feel like I'm having to relearn playing and it's frustrating. How can I best use your site? Can I just play the songs in the pucker embouchere and work on TB'ing as I go? Does this mean I have to abandon the levels of achievement process and work on other techniques? continue reading...

Hi David,

I'm wondering what I am forgetting to do, that I don't have audio with my study songs?  Like I wanted to hear

tremolo & vibrato.   Do I click on two things?  like where the red and or green little box icons are by the choices?

I see the sheet music, but no sound.

thank you for your help...

Patricia

at e-mail mikefalcon3@frontier.com

Hey Dave, I understand the theory of the draw reed bent is the blow reed sounding at some point in the bend. I would assume this is the same in reverse for the blow reed. i.e. the draw reed is making the sound for the blow bend. Is this correct? Thanks!

I found your video with Jo Tartaglia (Applying Chorus Forms - Part 1) really helpful in terms of how to structure improvising practice. Especially in terms of sticking to a single turnround until it's engrained. continue reading...

David,

At the start of the third measure in Chorus 3 of Gary's Blues, on the sheet music there are two 3+ before the rest. (it goes 3+ 3+ rest 3+ 3 pull 6+ 5.) On the mp3 of you playing, and in the video when you play the whole thing, I only hear one. Am I not hearing correctly?

Thanks!

Hi, David:

Chorus four of "Gary's Blues" ends with a pull and then three 2 draws, all with slaps. The slapped 2 draw sounds weak to me, because it's only got a 1-2 draw chord behind it, so I'd like to substitute a 3+ and get the stronger sounding 123 blow chord. Is this okay?

In general, should I attempt to play your transcriptions and match your recordings exactly, or can I now begin to make slight changes? Things like the above note substitution or adding bends for expression? continue reading...

In Gary Smith's submission about Intro from the V he mentions listening to early junior Wells when Junior was doing LW.  What recording is that? Is it Junior Wells - Blues Hit Big Town on Delmark but is actually the stuff recorded for United FRcords?