Bluegrass & Country Harmonica Course- Level 3

PRE-RECORDED VIDEO COURSE

How does it work?
Payment is through PayPal,  you'll receive video lessons and accompanying files by email. Very occasionally there can be an issue with files going to Spam folders by accident etc. If for any reason you can't find your files, please email me directly rather than informing Paypal, it's much easier this way. 

Email-    info@theharmonicabarge.com 

Streaming

You can stream every lesson, tabs and notes plus essential Audio MP3s from the store.

Remaining Audio MP3s are in a zip folder for ease of storage.

Accessing & downloading the zip folder is very simple- for clear instructions watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruwYBaXvE4

Which Harmonicas will I need?

Key of C, F, E, G, Bb, (Eb)  Diatonic Harmonicas Required (standard tuning)

What Level is the Course?

Difficulty Level:  4-7  (Mostly Intermediate)

This course is aimed at intermediate players.  It's advisable to take Bluegrass & Country Harmonica levels 1 and 2 before taking this course.

You should be playing solid single notes and have reasonable bending skills.

Some tongue blocking skills will also be useful.

( Although I aim to make lessons accessible for 'pucker only' players, level 3 does incorporate tongue blocking)

Overview

Level up your playing and get to the Country heart of Bluegrass harmonica with this brand new 9-part video course.

It’s time to build on Levels 1 & 2 to expand your rhythm skills, melody playing and technique through iconic songs and great backing tracks.

Dip into chord theory, break down popular progressions and learn the building blocks of song structure to help you improvise with musicality and confidence.  

What's Included?

*Course includes Video MP4 files with on screen Tab for you to keep, plus all PDF resources and timestamp notes.

New Feature:

Essential MP3 Audio files supplied for majority of songs and exercises

(remaining Audio available on request).

What people are saying about the course:

“I've had an overview of the course and it looks really great.

Exactly what I was looking for- how you elegantly and smoothly mix comping, licks and melody is what struck me about your playing from the start and this is what I'm trying to emulate.

I also like how you expand on the comping rhythms with tongue block, it really suits my playing as I enjoy mixing both pucker and tongue block.

I'm well aware of the relative minor thing but weirdly, I had never thought of using 5th position.  And there's lots of cool licks and songs!"

Miguel

* Over Two and a Half Hours of Content!
 
Content:

Part 1: 

- Rhythm Comping over 2 chord songs

- Hear the chord changes

Part 2:

-  Linear warm-ups

-  Drills & lick ideas 

Part 3:

-  Hot country licks

-  'Chordwise' lick options

Part 4:

-  Iconic bluegrass melody 

-  Improvise over melody

-  Study song form

Part 5:

-  Chord theory

-  Essential arpeggios

-  Apply to practice backing tracks and country songs

Part 6:   

-  Explore fifth position

-  Learn a beautiful melody

-  Develop solid bending

Part 7:

-   Tongue block comping

-   Selection of useful patterns and application

Part 8:

-  Bluegrass song project 'evolved' version

-  Iconic dobro solo applied to harmonica

Part 9:

-  Powerful bluegrass vocal melody

-  Apply to slower honky-tonk song with Improv

-  Comping ideas

* All backing tracks and songs that don't come with course can be found on YouTube.  Links to all music in the Course Notes.

Related Courses/Lessons

Bluegrass & Country Level 1 

Bluegrass & Country Level 2