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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:24:07 -0500
From: "jrross"
Subject: Re: If you're willing to share, I'm willing to learn.

For diatonic harmonica I can only highly recomend Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harp
Masterclass. It is a three cd set which starts very basic and gets fairly
complex, all focused on technique. While aimed at Chicago-style blues the
techniques Jerry teaches can be translated to nearly any style. He doesn't
teach songs or many specific riffs, but there are other books for that sort
of thing depending on what style you want (for instance, Richard Hunter's
"Jazz Harp").

You will need an A harmonica for this set, which comes to the next thing:
I'd suggest buying two or three harps to start off with anyway. C is a must
have, but after that I'd suggest one low and one high just to get the feel
for the general range of diatonics (a G or A would be good for a low harp, a
D, E or F for a high harp).

If you want to learn chromatic, I'd suggest trying to find the above book by
Richard Hunter as well as the books by Blackie Schackner and Doug Tate (they
are both on harp-l, and they're books should be findable). I'd also suggest
going to harp-on for refferences as to chromatic type and resources.

Finally, for the styles you mentioned, I'd suggest listening to a lot of
Stevie Wonder as well as old War from the 70's (with Lee Oskar on diatonic).
They managed to fit the harmonica into a fair amount of different styles and
sounds and might be a good place to get ideas of what can be done with the
harp in funk-based styles (house and reggae both qualify as funk-based,
IMO).

Hope this helps.

.()(). J.R. "Bulldogge" Ross
() () And Snuffy, too:)
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