Levels of Achiement Awards

Congratulations to Gustavo Ferreira Rizzuti in Brazil for completing Levels of Achievement Level 2 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Congratulations to Brian Shoemaker in Goodlettsville, TN for completing Levels of Achievement Level 3 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Congratulations to Mohammadsadegh Mansouri in Jam, Iran for completing Levels of Achievement Level 3 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Congratulations to Adrian Forsberg in Umeå, Sweden for completing Levels of Achievement Level 5 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Congratulations to Kurt Thompson in MINNEAPOLIS, MN for completing Levels of Achievement Level 2 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Part of the Level 10 testing process is to share with the other students their personal journey. Here is Bruno's. Congratulations again Bruno!

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“The Process” my journey through the Levels of Achievement Program by Bruno Di Giacomo

As a child, like many of us, I received the harmonica as a gift and started blowing into it. I liked the sound and I liked the idea of being able to "create" music. continue reading...

Congratulations to Geoffrey Wilson in Rochester, NY for completing Levels of Achievement Level 3 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

Part of the Level 10 testing process is to share with the other students their personal journey. Here is Uwe's. Congratulations again Uwe!

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I was in my twenties when I held a Harp in my hands for the first time. It was a Hohner Blues
Harp in E. I wanted to play all these great songs and do all these gorgeous sounds that I heard on my Blues
records. But no plan, no Idea how to do it! So I ended up learning an easy tongue block version from
“When the saints go marchin in”. But, nothing was marching for me. My harp career ended fast. continue reading...

Congratulations to Julian Ringgold in Davis, CA for completing Levels of Achievement Level 1 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com

A big congratulations goes to Bruno Di Giacomo in San Lazzaro Di Savena, Italy for completing his Levels of Achievement Level 10 Testing at BluesHarmonica.com. Students write four original compositions for level ten... a 2nd Position instrumental, 3rd Position instrumental, 1st Position instrumental, a self-accompanied instrumental, and a song showing his skills backing a vocalist. Normally this performance is done playing with a live band to an audience, but due to the persistent Corona Virus, we felt it reasonable to do this final performance to a backing track, live to video camera. continue reading...