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Modern Blues Harmonica – beginning harmony (AG.14)
Posted on March 29th, 2010 17 commentsFirst of a two-part lesson on basic harmony for blues harmonica players. With Adam Gussow of Satan and Adam. (The outro music is from the NEW Satan and Adam album, to be released late in 2010.) If you’re interested in learning how to play blues harmonica, or if you’re already playing and would like to deepen and improve your game, please visit Modern Blues Harmonica: www.modernbluesharmonica.com If you’re up for an adventure late this spring in the North Mississippi hill country, please visit Hill Country Harmonica www.hillcountryharmonica.com
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Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.017)
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 25 commentsOverblows! A quick-hit lesson on what they are, how to play them, and how to set up your harp to make them easier to play. Brief demo of overblow licks and Sony Rollins’s “Tenor Madness.” For a free tab sheet to this video, please visit: www.tradebit.com For a video tutorial focused on “Tenor Madness,” please visit: www.tradebit.com
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Re: North Mississippi Front-Porch Blues Harp Lesson (Gussow.024)
Posted on February 25th, 2010 12 commentsTake II
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Modern Blues Harmonica – Train Grooves 1 (Gussow.047)
Posted on February 15th, 2010 25 commentsFirst part of a two-part lesson on train rhythms. After talking about some remarkable donations to his "church" of blues harmonica, Gussow (of Satan and Adam) demos and dissects the "nuck-a tuck-a" rhythm that is the foundation of harmonica train songs. Key of A harp. Live in the car from Oxford, Mississippi. For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tabs focusing on classic blues harmonica repertoire by Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and others, please visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
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Big River Harmonica (AG.9)
Posted on January 27th, 2010 13 commentsConversation about the harmonica overture for “Big River,” Roger Miller’s play based on Mark Twain’s ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. With Adam Gussow, who played harp in a bus-and-truck production of the play in 1987-1988. Gussow’s personal appearances page can be found here: www.modernbluesharmonica.com If you’d like to learn how to play harmonica, please visit Modern Blues Harmonica: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
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Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.002)
Posted on October 24th, 2009 25 commentsHow to play strong, clear single notes. Two Hole Draw diagnostics. For blues harmonica instructional materials focusing on classic repertoire, check out Modern Blues Harmonica: www.modernbluesharmonica.com “Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed! The YouTube Lessons, Vol. 1,” captures my first 33 videos–5 hours’ worth–for only postpaid www.modernbluesharmonica.com
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The Last Lesson?
Posted on October 6th, 2009 25 commentsThe Last Lesson? NO! Jason Ricci and Adam Gussow team up at last to call it quits? It can’t be! Maybe it is stay tuned. Bb Harmonicas played in 2nd position!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed (Gussow.020)
Posted on September 20th, 2009 25 commentsPart III of “Counting Your Way Through 12-bar Blues Changes.” Adam Gussow (of Satan and Adam) offers a no-holds-barred workout, wrestling you through half a dozen contemporary Chicago blues, installing some hellified malware to get you, the apprentice harpist, to really HEAR blues the way that crazy musician-types do when they’re learning their trade. For a FREE color-coded 12-bar blues template to accompany this lesson, please go to: www.tradebit.com For aseries of skill-graded video …
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Modern Blues Harmonica – Harp Websites (Gussow.038)
Posted on August 29th, 2009 25 commentsSatan and Adam harpist Gussow talks about his own youthful journey into the blues, surveys three excellent blues harmonica websites, and talks about the purpose of this channel. Bonus: Gussow plays the head of “Morning Song,” an unrecorded original in the spirit of Sonny Rollins’s “St. Thomas.” UPDATE: in response to overwhelming popular demand, I have created my own harp website, MODERN BLUES HARMONICA: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
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Modern Blues Harmonica – First Position 1 (Gussow.071)
Posted on August 24th, 2009 25 commentsFirst in a series of four lessons on traditional and new approaches to first position blues playing (A harp in the key of A). Gussow explores the lowest octave here. For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tabs focusing on classic blues harmonica repertoire by Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and others, please visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com