Product Description Are you hankering to play the harmonica? Harmonica For Dummies is an easy-to-read practice guide that gives you step-by-step instructions and gets you making music in no time! Even if you?re an experienced harmonica player, this jump-in-anywhere reference is packed with tips and playing techniques that will take your skills to the next level.
This fast, fun, hands-on guide helps you choose your first harmonica and shows you how to hold it, make your first sounds, and keep it clean and working well. Helpful diagrams show you how to shape sounds using your tongue, throat, and hands. Before you know it you?ll be playing melodies, chugging out rhythms, and bending notes with ease. You?ll also pick up some basics of music theory and learn how to read the notation and tablature for all the music in the book. Discover how to:
Play right out of the box with little or no experience
Make that wonderful wailing sound
Create exciting rhythms and play solo
Understand how the harmonica works
Play all of the music on the Bonus CD
Read tablature, educate your eye, and develop your ear
Breath correctly while playing
Bend notes up and down
Play one harp in many keys
Develop your style in blues rock, country, folk, and more
Play with other musicians
Work with a microphone to create great sounds
So stop dreaming and start playing! Harmonica For Dummies will get you wailing in no time!
Customer Reviews:
This book has everything!!!!! November 30, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want to get started playing the harmonica, this is the book. It is very complete, from practice songs, what to buy, where to buy.
Comprehensive November 17, 2008 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Wow! This book is very comprehensive." That is the comment I hear most often after someone takes a look at this book.
The book is, indeed, very comprehensive and well written. All topics are taught in a manner respecting the intelligence of the reader.
The harmonica can be one of the most expressive instruments. There is much to learn from taking care of it, tuning it, playing it, to some music theory to understand why things work. This book covers that and much, much more.
For Dummies and Smarty-Pants too! October 15, 2008 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Winslow Yerxa and team produced what may be the best book about harmonica yet. He really covers the whole range of issues with harp which I've encountered in my almost 40 years of playing blues harp purely from feel, and he demonstrates with words that which normally defies explanation.
Yerxa's intellect and humor animate the organization, writing, and tone of the tome, making it both entertaining, and eminently readable, even for a poor book-learner such as myself!
Congratulations on creating a super-resource for our fine and enigmatic instrument!
Highly recommended October 11, 2008 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Winslow Yerxa's book "Harmonica for Dummies" should be titled "Everything You Need to Know About Harmonica" Winslow is one of the most highly respected members of the nation's harmonica community. He has forgotten more about harmonica than most of us will ever learn. As I told him, if this book had been available 30 years ago when I started playing harmonica, I would be a real player now. Anyone interested in harmonica will not find a book with more information, and concise, easy to understand instruction, than this gem. If you have any urge at all to learn how to play this fascinating little instrument, this will be the best money you have ever spent. I play harmonica in a band and I can find all kinds of things in this book that will keep me learning.
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