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Harmonica For Dummies by Winslow Yerxa (Paperback w/CD)

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Harmonica For Dummies by Winslow Yerxa (Paperback w/CD)

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The fun and easy way to make the harmonica sing and perfect your playing technique!

Are you hankering to play the harmonica? This easy-to-read, practice-oriented guide gives you step-by-step instruction to get you making music in no time! Even if you're an experienced harmonica player, this book is packed with tips to take your playing to the next level.

Explore your first harmonica — learn how to hold a harp, make your first sounds, and keep it clean
Find your rhythm — play single notes and simple melodies; shape your sounds with your hands, tongue, and throat
Bend notes with ease — make that wonderful wailing sound
Grow beyond the basics — play one harp in many keys, hone your abilities with challenging melodies, and learn how to overblow
Play popular music styles — from blues and rock to country, folk, and Celtic
Take it to the streets — develop a repertoire of tunes, play with other musicians, amplify your sound, and perform for an audience

Open the book and find:

The basics of music theory
Helpful diagrams of tongue and mouth action
Music notation and tablature for all the music in the book
Tips for playing chords, scales, licks, and riffs
Advice on making simple repairs and upgrades
Info on nifty accessories
Harmonica resources and groups
Tuning layouts for all 12 keys of diatonic harmonicas

Bonus CD Includes

All the musical examples from the book, so you can play along and hear the sound you're striving for

Audio files that let you either play along with the recorded harmonica or play solo with the backing band

About the Author

Winslow Yerxa is a harmonica player with thirty years' experience in a wide variety of musical styles. He is also known internationally as a teacher, author, musical arranger, and recording artist, and is former editor of HIP (the Harmonica Information Publication).

Biography

Winslow Yerxa is a harmonica player, performer, author, inventor, and teacher centered in San Francisco, California. His lifelong quest to understand the harmonica (and help others do the same) began early on, when he couldn't find a teacher and had to figure everything out the hard way.

Winslow has authored the books Harmonica For Dummies and Blues Harmonica For Dummies and writes for David Barrett's teaching site bluesharmonica.com. Other notable writing activities include publishing the magazine HIP - The Harmonica Information Publication, transcribing John Popper's harmonica solos for publication, contributing to Howard Levy's Out of the Box instructional DVD and the Howard Levy Harmonica School, and writing a regular column for Mel Bay's online zine HarmonicaSessions.com.

As a performer, Winslow plays nearly every type of harmonica, in addition to composing, arranging and conducting. Currently he performs with the San Francisco Harmonica Ensemble, in a duo with violinist Tuula Tossavainen, and small acoustic ensembles.

Winslow currently teaches at the Jazzschool in Berkeley, California and for the semi-annual gatherings of the Harmonica Collective. He has also taught at David Barrett's Harmonica Masterclass and Jon Gindick's Harmonica Jam Camp.

Winslow is currently president of SPAH, the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica, which stages an annual summer harmonica festival. He also continues to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of the harmonica through such online forums as Harp-l and Slidemeister.

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