Ask Instructor David Barrett

Is there a jam track for "I Want You With Me (Shuffle in E)" without vocals or harmonica?

Is there an area on the site where all the jam tracks can be found?  A catalogue, library or listing of all the jam sites in one location?

Thank you

Kurt Thompson

Hello David, First of all happy new year for you and Sharon!

I've been practicing the bending study 1 and was wondering how far should I go before jump into bending study 2 and dig in to the LOA 3 study song. Do I need to master the bendings or should I start to learn the song?

I'm already able to reach a pretty controlled bend on 6, 5 and 4. Strangelly the 1 sounds almost good, but the 2 and 3 I'm still strugling to reach the half step.  continue reading...

David: I heard you playing a major scale lick on holes 6 and 7. Now I can't find it. I don't remember whether it was in the forum or in the lessons somewhere.

mtnhank

I'm still a beginner but I've set a personal goal of playing La Mula de Parenzo in the harmonica. I can kind of follow the linked tabs already, but I found this awesome performance by Christian Labrecque and would like to better understand his technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j7vSUx8Hk continue reading...

 Hello David.  Happy New Year to you and Sharon.  Would it be feasible to interview the Harp Tech Expert, Kenya Pollard.  Your interview with Sharon was excellent and I think an interview with Kenya would also be informative and  entertaining.  Thanks  Mic

Hello,

I've just started learning how to bend and I'm having a few issues with it.

1) Sometimes i bend so much that I start hearing a very strange high pitch sound. What is that? continue reading...

Hi Dave

I've just started the first few videos and am enjoying them. Very clear and well presented - well done.

Got a weird problem with the tongue blocking one though. I'm trying to practise up and down the simple five-note scale do-re-mi-fa-so-fa-mi-re-do. I start off OK, but once I've played about three or four notes I've filled the harmonica with spit and notes stop working. I then have to stop and either bang or suck the spit out. Then I start again and can do it fine, but the problem is I can never get past playing three or four notes in a row. continue reading...

Good afternoon Mr. Barret, first of all I hope you are doing well. Im a very new member in the course and im so exited to learn how to play my blues harp with your lessons, but i have a little problem:i spent all my savings in the Special 20 in the key of C, and in my first lesson you mention that its necessary to have an A harmonica. Does it means that i cant take the lessons unless i get an A harp? or there is something i can do. please help! thanks in advance and have a good day!

I noticed on the tongue blocking PDF there was a plus sign to the right of the numbers denoting the hole to be played. I am confused as to what those numbers mean.

Working on the first study song and when I draw #3 I end up playing a G note. The tuner i downloaded on my phone shows a the note between 3 blow and 2 draw. I'm using a C harmonica until my A harmonica gets delivered.