Diggsblues
240 posts
Mar 20, 2010
10:23 PM
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For harmonica:
My first chromatic teacher was
Forrest Scott. Steve Guyger studied
with him also.
Robert Bonfiglio Chromatic.
Seminars: Augusta with Howard Levy.
NY.NY Chamber Huang
Jazz Studies:
Curtis Harmon
Larry McKenna
Al Maene
Composition Arranging Ochestration:Dr.Joo Won Park
BM Jazz studies Esther Boyer College of Music
Temple University
I'd love to hear about other peoples
learning experiences.
Emile Diggs D'Amico
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MichaelAndrewLo
250 posts
Mar 20, 2010
10:49 PM
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I studied (not harp) clarinet with Joe Wimmer in Oregon (he's a great jazz player, real old and strict). For one summer I got to study with Richie Hawley and for one masterclass, David Shifrin, at the music academy of the west in SB. For harp I would say Howard Levy and Adam Gussow, but only their online content. Nothing in person, yet!
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waltertore
291 posts
Mar 21, 2010
5:34 AM
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too many to rememeber, but here is a early sunday morning, waking up list. most aren't harp players. I found I learned more from non harp players about how to play music on the harp. Walter
Louisiana Red
Sonny Terry
Lightning Hopkins
albert collins
sonny rhodes
jimmy carl black
champion jack dupree
big jay mcneely
cool papa
lonnie brooks
roy smeck
hubert sumlin
johnny littlejohn
wilbert harrison
uncle john turner
ronnie lane
bobby keys
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HarpNinja
301 posts
Mar 21, 2010
7:20 AM
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Clint Hoover
Chris Michalek
David Barrett
One of the guys in my band went to Berklee and is now going to McNally Smith (and being accelerated through classes and will probably receive a full ride in May). In terms of music, he can pretty much explain to me anything I ask about. Huge resource!
Otherwise, I've spent a tone of time on YouTube learning from Jason Ricci and Adam Gussow.
Truly, most has been coming from studying guitar players lately.
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Mike Fugazzi
vocals/harmonica
MySpace
YouTube
Twitter
Facebook
Album Ordering
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hvyj
221 posts
Mar 21, 2010
8:06 AM
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I'm self taught, but I've had the good fortune to play with some very good musicians over the years and from them I've managed to pick up a working knowledge of music theory.
In the last year, I've had some lessons from Madcat Ruth and Chris Michalek, whom I consider to be among the best harmonica players on the planet and truly excellent musicians. They've helped me refine my playing.
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Greg Heumann
368 posts
Mar 21, 2010
10:12 AM
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Personal lessons with:
Dave Barrett
Gary Smith
RJ Mischo
Mark Hummel
Charlie Musselwhite
Plus all the on-line and CD stuff from Adam, Jason, Steve Baker, Chris M....
But Dave was the most important in bringing me from beginner to the point where I could figure more out on my own - he taught me the basics not only of how to play the instrument, but also mic technique and how to run a band.
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/Greg
BlowsMeAway Productions
BlueState - my band
Bluestate on iTunes
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jonsparrow
2606 posts
Mar 21, 2010
10:50 AM
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jon sparrow.
plus all the online lessons from youtube etc...
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shanester
144 posts
Mar 21, 2010
11:56 AM
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Will this establish our credentials for future pissing matches? Excellent.
Ms. Smith - 1st grade music teacher and first black lady I ever personally met. Taught me the fundamentals of rhythm with a couple of sticks. I'll never forget her saying "Be my echo"...
Funny looking old guy with thick glasses - Taught me cornet for 6 weeks in fifth grade.
Sister Sharon - nun in catholic school who taught me open chords on guitar and the down down up up down up strum.
Mete Parsons - spent 15 minutes telling me how to bend notes and which key harp to pick for cross harp. He was in my girlfriend's alt bluegrass band.
Bill Anderson - spent about a half hour showing me some pentatonic scales on the guitar.
Adam Gussow - I watched his videos 1 after the other like tv one long weekend when I was alone working in Baton Rouge.
Other than that, I've listened to a shitload of music throughout my life, and followed my process of figuring out how to get the music in my head out through an instrument, checking out books from the library on theory, digesting what I could and making noise.
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http://www.youtube.com/1shanester
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ZackPomerleau
827 posts
Mar 21, 2010
1:50 PM
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I'm going to say the literal and un-literal. Paul Butterfield was my first 'teacher' in a sense. Then all by myself. Getting deeper was Chris Michalek. Everything else was picking it up in random places.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
515 posts
Mar 21, 2010
3:26 PM
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well if the moon is full,and i have a 1/2 5th of whiskey drank but still some left,and smoking good cigars and other tobaccos.If im lucky and the moon is in scorpio Sometimes the spirit of Sonny Boy 2 (Rice Miller stops in for a drink) He hasnt shown me much we just get our buzz on I asked once but he said in a whisper,keep doing what your doing,in time all will be.Then he finishes my whiskey.
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LittleJoeSamson
271 posts
Mar 21, 2010
4:55 PM
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Best advice I ever got:
"Don't play so much!"
I was humble enough to ASK.
Dave on bass, Jack on git, and Danny on keys...
all offered, independently, very similar answers.
Dave explained it better about being a matter of DYNAMICS.
It made so much sense to me about "ebb and flow".
I talked with Kevin McCracken last night about this.
It is SO true!
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Hobostubs Ashlock
522 posts
Mar 22, 2010
2:07 AM
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i studied under a local professional bass player in Tulsa Named Rick Chandler (Mr Now) although this was over 15 years ago and i was just picking a little guitar,He was the National Point Karate champion,in the 80's Man he was cool,and a very good bass player that had played with some big dogs in his day,I never took music lessons from him just some Karate,but i was jamming 1 day when he came over and gave me some advise ill allways remember,just keep it simple,and today i sometimes need to refresh that idea,Ive been wanting to get in touch with him and i firgure he is still in the music scene around tulsa if any locals know Mr Now tell him David Ashlock would love to chat.
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DJKim
4 posts
Mar 27, 2010
10:34 AM
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I've had very little instruction. Started off with Jon Gindick's book, and then really just youtube with Adam Gussow and Jason Ricci.
But does anyone know of harmonica teachers in Northern California?
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Joe_L
120 posts
Mar 27, 2010
10:48 AM
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DJKim - David Barrett teaches in Northern California.
No one. I learned how to play the old fashioned way. I grew up in Chicago and learned by watching and listening to the masters of the instrument performing around town in Blues clubs. There are too many to name. Blues is all I play, so it was the perfect group of people to learn from.
After moving to California, I see a lot of excellent harp players. I've learned stuff from several of them, but never through direct instruction. I just steal their stuff.
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DeakHarp
11 posts
Mar 28, 2010
1:02 AM
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learned one on one with .
William Gallison
Rob paparozzi
William Clarke
James Cotton
Luther Tucker
But i suffer with CRS ... so i mainley learned from listening to blues harp non stop for 36 yrs ....and wacthing James Cotton play over 300 shows .....
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barbequebob
647 posts
Mar 28, 2010
12:48 PM
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I've learned a lot from hanging out with guys like Big Walter Horton, and many of the old blues greats I've either gigged or hung out with like Louisiana Red, Jimmy Rogers (who, BTW, was a pretty damned good harp player in his own right), Sunnyland Slim, and Luther Guitar Junior Johnson. From Luther, I learned pretty quickly that backing him like the way many guys backed Muddy wasn't gonna work because Luther was mainly a West Side Chicago guy and that's such a completely different sound and thinking more like a horn player often made more sense backing him.
From the many timnes I saw Muddy, I know I learned a lot from him, as well as seeing guys like Cotton, Wolf, Junior Wells, you name it, and it's more than just licks.
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Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
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MakaInOz
6 posts
Mar 28, 2010
6:35 PM
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Only Aussies, but some good Aussie Harp Players:
Tony Maguire (workshop at the local - 30 students)
Pete West (course at the local college - 14 students)
Doug Lyons (workshop at the local - 8 students)
Mike Rudd (workshop at my place - 6 students)
Ian Collard (workshop at my place - 6 students)
Jim Conway (workshop at my place yesterday - 6 students)
The 'usual 6' have taken to booking any harp player coming through town for a workshop. Makes for some interesting instruction. Jim Conway (ex Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, ex Backsliders, current Big Wheel) is a great teacher. We had a great time after his gig (Little Wheel - the Big Wheel trio) at the National Portrait Gallery (where his portrait is hung).
Maka
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The Gloth
325 posts
Mar 29, 2010
12:31 AM
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I'm mainly self-taught, but I have had a beginners method written by JJ Milteau that was a good help at a time : it revealed to me the existence of bending, tongue-blocking and positions.
Last year I had a one week lessons with Thierry Crommen, famous belgian harp player. I'm gonna have another next week.
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5F6H
46 posts
Mar 30, 2010
8:19 AM
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Oops! Yes, my apologies, I had the wrong end of the stick altogether, I will delete my previous post!
Sorry again, Mark.
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toddlgreene
1113 posts
Mar 30, 2010
8:32 AM
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Like Ferris Beuhler, 'Never had one lesson!'...I've learned from all I've listened to and absorbed, and quite a bit from this forum. The only videos that were instructional I ever watched, long before YouTube, was Norton Buffalo's Bag of Tricks, probably in the early 90's-from a guy who wanted me to teach him(a complete beginner) how to play some Stevie Wonder tune, so he could perform it the following week...that didn't pan out for him, but I'm glad I went and was able to discover Norton's videos. I picked up quite a bit from them.
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Greg Heumann
378 posts
Mar 30, 2010
9:00 PM
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DJKim -
Where in Northern CA are you? As Joe said David Barrett is here (in south San Jose) and is one of the best teachers on the planet, hands down. (He is the largest publisher of harmonica instructional materials under the name "Harmonica Master Class" (http://harmonicamasterclass.com) and runs a blues school called "School of the Blues" (schooloftheblues.com).
If that's too far south - I'm about 70 miles north of San Francisco and do a little teaching too. Contact me directly to discuss - I can't be sure I will keep following this thread.
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/Greg
BlowsMeAway Productions
BlueState - my band
Bluestate on iTunes
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DJKim
6 posts
Apr 07, 2010
9:55 PM
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Greg Heumann -
I live in Davis, CA. I'm considering David Barrett, but San Jose is still a 2 hour drive for me. That's quite a distance. Nonetheless, I am very interested in finding a great harmonica teacher.
Do you know of anyone else closer to Davis?
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SuperHoya
1 post
Apr 07, 2010
10:28 PM
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Hello everyone--longtime lurker (18 months) but first time poster. I think this is a wonderful forum and have benefitted greatly from the information passed on here.
I started studying harmonica during the beginning of the current downturn (more free time; otherwise felt right).
The wife and I just moved back to San Francisco after 5 years in New York.
On the East Coast, I took lessons from Dennis Gruenling.
Since the beginning of the year, I have been taking from Winslow Yerxa out of SF/Berkeley. Winslow is the "Harmonica for Dummies" author. His personal interests probably lie more in jazz/traditional folk, but I suspect he can teach blues to students until they get very near to the top of the blues skills spectrum.
Check with Dave Barrett to see if he is taking on new students--I think he is very focused on the new website at the moment and may not be.
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