Ask Instructor David Barrett

G'day David,

I'm sorry if this is too far off-topic...(its not harmonica, but it is blues...) continue reading...

Hey Dave!

Just when I thought I wasn't going to have any other interest I decide to just look at the chromatic lessons and now I've got the fever. I had an old Hohner key of C Chromatic called THE "CHROMONICA" . When I try to play along it doesn't sound the same is that because it's 10 hole or is it not solo tuning or is it possibly got problems it is old??

Thanks!

David,
I am working on the 3 hole bends....in this case Key of A.
Using my tuner I can reach F# or 3" but as I do my volume goes way down....the lower I go.
Why is that and what to do?
Also on the 3 hole....I reach a certain point and then the reeds let out a squeal...what does that mean?
Thank you!
Steve

Hi David!!!

in the Joe Filisko interview "Approach to accompaniment playing ",
I love how he approach to accompaniment in this video,
the rhythmic percussive example at the end of that section ,Filisko used "pulls"?

Thanks

Best Regards

Marko

I'm sorry if this posted in the wrong forum, but the "contact us" on this site is broken. And the "contact us" on the harmonicmasterclass has an invalid email address (email bounces).

I love the site and I'm excited to learn more but I have a problem with the videos. I'm a deployed Marine so I am using the internet via a ship at sea. I can download pdfs and mp3s just fine (if slowly) and can watch some videos, but most videos will not load. (Even the short 1-2 min videos take 15 mins to load if they load at all.) continue reading...

Dave,

Do you have any idea what the problem is when Cakewalk starts stuttering and breaking up, sometime going into Dropout? I can't get through a whole track to record my tunes.

Hi David.

Sorry about my bad English. I'm not native speaker.
This site is excellent. It's very helpful for me.
But There is few lesson about harmonica rhythm, especially like Sonny Terry Style.
Do you have a plan for new lesson for this topic?

Anyway, thank you for good lesson.

Sorry about the triple post - tried to delete through the edit feature but it just reposted. I'll ask in the admin section how to delete.

If covered somewhere else, please refer me there David.

What would be an approach to tackling one chord songs? Got hit with one at the last jam and never really thought about it before. I know there are 8 bar blues and 16 bar blues but they have a chord sequence like the 12 bar blues. Can you take a similar approach to chorus forms (A,A,B)?? Are the varied in chorus length the same way (eg. 12 bars)? How do you know when the chorus is over and a new one is starting? Turnaround? etc.

Would this be a possible lesson or is it so obvious that I'm missing something??

If covered somewhere else, please refer me there David.

What would be an approach to tackling one chord songs? Got hit with one at the last jam and never really thought about it before. I know there are 8 bar blues and 16 bar blues but they have a chord sequence like the 12 bar blues. Can you take a similar approach to chorus forms (A,A,B)?? Are the varied in chorus length the same way (eg. 12 bars)? How do you know when the chorus is over and a new one is starting? Turnaround? etc.

Would this be a possible lesson or is it so obvious that I'm missing something??