Ask Instructor David Barrett

I've been getting left sided TMJ pain while doing the agility exercise. Is there something I'm doing wrong that's causing this pain? In you experience, does it get better when the joint gerts used to a different position?

Thanks.

prsnrs

David,

   All I have is a iPhone 11. Is it possible to sent in the Level 1 Test LOA with just the Voice Memo on my IPhone 11? I don't  have a computer or printer, my iPhone is my computer and not to savvy on saving things to files or changing to zip files etc. Thx.JT

Hi David,

I am a begginer and realy enjoying your lessons.

I am practicing on "walk with me" and doing it using musical notation and matronom, but i am not sure if this is the right approace in order to be good

Harmonica blues player, maybe i should practice the song 

By imitating you since you play for us how it sould be,

And also getting  the rythem by stomping my feet.

I will appriciate you advice

Thank you

M.B

Hi David,

I am a begginer and realy enjoying your lessons.

I am practicing on "walk with me" and doing it using musical notation and matronom, but i am not sure if this is the right approace in order to be good

Harmonica blues player, maybe i should practice the song 

By imitating you since you play for us how it sould be,

And also getting  the rythem by stomping my feet.

I will appriciate you advice

Thank you

M.B

In the PDF, for many of the examples, all I see is the following:

C  C# Db D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B C

with underlines under some of the pairs of notes.

This is for 2b, 2c, 3b, 3c, 5a, 5b and section 2, 1b. And for everything in Section 3.

Obviously something is amiss.  

Thanks for your help

I am really enjoying my free trial and I plan to subscribe when my free month is up!

Hi David,

I'm 77, and recently (pre Covid) attended a group class for aspiring, beginning harmonica players. Everything came to a screeching halt when the music school shut down. In that beginners class I discovered that I could produce single notes poorly using the Pucker technique, could produce nice, clean single notes tongue blocking, could bend while puckering but couldn't bend at all while tongue blocking. Is it even possible to bend while tongue blocking?

Thanks.

prsnrs

Hi David

I found that Throat Tremolo is hard to learn and want to get more tips from you.

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David,

First up I am a complete beginner at this. I have. wanted for years to play harmonica and finally got one. After reading extensively the general concensus was that a C was the one to get for a beginner, which I did.

So...the very first thing I read in lesson one in I need an A harmonica! Please help because buying one more is out of the question, I want to learn THIS one.

Thank you in anticipation.

David,

I started off with an MS C Hohner blues harp and now am on a A Marine Band harp, for several reasons, but mostly because you reccommended it. Anyway, I have noticed that the A is smaller and then the C is and I am getting a lot of air coming out of the A. 

First is that normal and are there any tips that you have to stop that airy sound?

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Hi

I am new to harmonica and have started to learn for around 2 weeks. Since I am completing new I pick up the lessons in this website and now is able to do some single (position 3-8) notes using tongue block. Of course my skill is still very basic and quite often the sounds are kind of "mixed" and I need to adjust a bit in-the-fly. continue reading...