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With photos, illustrations, and a new audio CD.
The harmonica is one of the most traditional musical instruments in America. Millions are sold each year, but there are few high quality, comprehensive instructional manuals for new harmonica players. This bestselling book has been completely updated, with dozens of new songs and a professionally mastered audio CD.
• Over 100 songs, both traditional and original to this book
• Detailed instructions on playing, including photos to illustrate positions and techniques
• Buying tips and interesting historical facts about famous players
• Authors are professional musicians
• The most comprehensive music lists featuring nearly every style of playing and category of song
• Over 80 riffs and songs performed on the special audio CD
• Comprehensive resource guides
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By Gonzalo Vela Medina (Bogota, Colombia)
Book structure and contents are more than I expected. The history and explanations are really enjoyable and satisfied my curiosity regarding the harmonica origins.
By J. Spears
Even though I am not all the way through the book I have learned a lot about the harmonica. It starts at the history of where it came from into the basics and then more advanced. I really like how it has tabs for the harmonica, then teaches you how to read music. I'm really glad I got this book.
By big-bear228 (Michigan)
This is a great book for a music idiot like me. I do highly recommend this book.
By JM (All Over)
I'm not sure that I would reccomend it for beginners. As other reviewers have pointed out it covers some pretty advanced techniques; however, a lot of the really basic techniques are glossed over or inadequately explained. Furthermore, there are a relatively few number of songs written in the beginning stages. My biggest problem though, is with the chapter dealing with note reading. It is fairly difficult to figure out if you have no experience reading music. For example, the book gives you a diagram of what notes are ploduced by each blowhole, but then fails to provide a corresponding diagram of what each of those notes looks like on sheet music. Instead, it gives a diagram that seems to jump all over the place and shows numerous sharp and flat notes that are essentially useless at that point in the book. I pretty much had to make my own diagram showing where the notes are located and which blow-hole they go to. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I definately expected a little bit better instruction.
That being said, I love that the book actually tries to teach you notes and introduce you to musical theory instead of doing everything in tabulature. So I would recommend this book but probably in conjunction with a little bit more basic book for all the musical newbies out there.
By Kilgore Trout (Ilium, NY)
The Kindle edition is not worth the price. There is no CD(obviously) and the promissed web site where you can download parts of the CD and "learning tools" is more than lacking...I found no learning tools etc.
The illustrations in the Kindle edition are too small to be of any use.
Perhaps the print edition is OK, but not the Kindle edition.
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