Major: Intermediate to Advanced Harmonica
Do you really know how to bend a note in pitch? The harmonica involves a lot of basic techniques like bending
a note well and in tune.
Once I know you have basic and some more advanced blowing techniques (bending notes accurately being one of the main ones) is to teach how to listen and transcribe solos. This involves committing to memory your favourite solos of your favourite players by working with easy to use "Transcribe!" computer software. The more you do this, the more you will start to expand your vocabulary. All the great blues and jazz players did this at one time or another when they were learning.
Also, the use and understanding of the basic scales to use when improvising on a blues. Expanding ones way of improvising with the use of this scale.
This class will briefly cover very basic music theory and how it applies to the traditional 10 hole diatonic harmonica using easy to read harmonica
tablature.