Harmonica Americana

by Gindick, Jon; Ellis, Art

• ISBN13: 9780930948221
• ISBN10: 093094822X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Cross Harp Pr

Summary

"Learn to play America's 30 greatest songs, including a haunting Danny Boy, a blues-inspired America The Beautiful, and a side-splitting, lip-burning Turkey In The Straw. A compendium of harmonica lore including a special section on the blues."

Table of Contents

Harmonica Americana, the Tradition	15	(18)
A brief and informal history of that little piece of musical genius commonly called the harmonica, also known as ``mouth organ'' and, most affectionately in this work, as ``your harp.''
Vamping the Harp to the Sweet Flow of Music	33	(12)
Vamping---an old word that means making it up as you go along. Here's how to get started. Learn what type of harp to buy, how the harp works, and how to play cowboy music on the danged thing before you know diddly-squat.
Blows, Draws and Balderdash	45	(6)
Put some method in your madness with a little information about scales, structure, rhythm and a tad more.
Arts of the Harp	51	(22)
A puckered plunge into the basics of true harmonica music---single notes, breathing, reversing your breath, tonguing, problem notes, finding the correct note, moving the harmonica, and cupping the harp to make that baby cry.
Harmonica Songbook	73	(60)
Thirty great ones---a classic repertoire for beginning, intermediate and advanced musicians---complete with harmonica notation, guitar chords for those who thump the axe, historical notes about the song, additional lyrics and a few words of harmonica advice from yours truly.
Blues, Bending & Beyond	133
Doc Gindick's finest instructional elixir on bending notes, playing the high notes, low notes, improvisation, playing the blues, train music and fox and hound chases.