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the youtube videos
the youtube videos
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rucker_z
3 posts
Jul 24, 2010
7:25 AM
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So, I'm a beginner player and have been working my way sequentially through Adam's beginner videos for sale on tradebit. Am learning a lot and loving it.
My question: How do the youtube videos differ in content from the tradebit ones? Is there significant overlap? Is it worth it to me to buy the youtube collection if I've got the tradebit ones as well?
~rucker
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eharp
712 posts
Jul 24, 2010
8:21 AM
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there really is no reason to buy the collection except for convenience. you can use a program, like handbrake, to put the youtubes onto your ipod.
i will assume you have seen many of his youtubes. if not, do so. you will be able to judge the overlap.
i just received an email about another package deal adam is offering. these are definitely the best value.
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rpoe
192 posts
Jul 24, 2010
10:54 AM
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If you've missed out on the few that have been pulled from youtube, I'd buy them. One hell of a deal. For this reason as well as simply to give back to what Adam has provided, buy them.
I've bought most of the tradebit lessons as well. They are well worth the few bucks spent.
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Rob
Rob's Tube
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rpoe
193 posts
Jul 24, 2010
11:06 AM
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Adam's just to damn sexy!
Not really. Copy right infringement police. I'm not sure which ones but some are gone.
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Rob
Rob's Tube
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
506 posts
Jul 24, 2010
1:25 PM
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Eharp, I've lost several videos like that. Usually, youtube will remove the audio without question or giving you a chance to defend yourself, or even really tell you what is going on. Just bam! one day your video has no audio, not just the part that supposedly had the copyrighted stuff, the whole thing and you're never even told what it supposedly was. They always err on the side of executing caution with extreme predjudice. I wouldn't be surprised if they were shooting down videos of kids singing happy birthday (which is copyrighted) in home movies of parties.
My dad and I made one once where dad shot a harmonica at 100 yards with a .45/90 buffalo rifle. It's up to about 20k views now. So youtube approaches me about revenue sharing, I say, let's do this. Well, that never happened. The hang up? There's background music of a traditional fiddle tune, Little Rabbit, as played by Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers in the mid 1920s. That audio is almost a hundred years old. The video, at least for now, is OK, but that background killed the sharing.
Dad says he can shoot a harmonica at 200 yards (I think I can, too), so we're going to make that video at some point, but next time I'll play the traditional tunes on the mandolin myself.
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www.harrisonharmonicas.com
"There are only two things money can't buy - true love and homegrown tomatoes." - Lewis Grizzard
Last Edited by on Jul 24, 2010 1:36 PM
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Hobostubs Ashlock
923 posts
Jul 25, 2010
3:34 AM
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there's alot of em When Adam and Jason said they were not doing them anymore awhile back,I thought oh no they might pull em,so i loaded up on coffee and energy drinks and started downloading,It took me about 40 hours of straight downloading to get them all,and that was just Adams,And it filled 3/4 of my harddrive on my laptop.But i got em:-)
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kudzurunner
1697 posts
Jul 25, 2010
4:21 AM
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@Rucker: There are several key differences between the YT videos and the videos here at MBH.
1) The YT videos aren't oriented at players of specific levels. Or rather, the levels jump around somewhat. The MBH videos, on the other hand, are skill-graded; I've graded them and put them in order of increasing difficulty to the best of my ability, based on several decades of private and group teaching. Some are plainly for beginning players, others are for people in the middle, and the ones with overblows (and some others, such as the transcription of Kim Wilson's solo on "Got My Mojo Working" are for advanced players.
2) The YT videos aren't focused on specific tab sheets, although in several cases (such as the "front porch" lesson) somebody has come along after the fact and created a tab sheet for me. The MBH lessons, on the other hand, are in 99% of the cases focused on a specific song, with a tab sheet drawn by me. These sheets take time to create. They're as precise as I can make them without cluttering them impossibly. (The "ending the blues" tab sheet is severely cluttered; never again.) This enables me to take players step by step through some fairly challenging music.
When he says "there's no reason to buy the collection," I think eHarp is referring to the DVD--the one ship-to item that I sell. It contains roughly the first 33 YT videos. Some people can't or won't download the videos, or they simply want a DVD that can play in DVD players. For them, those are the operative reasons. The new collections that eHarp endorses are digital products for-download, not ship-to items, and Hobostubs's post helps explain why they're a pretty good deal: even if you're tech-savvy, it's pretty time intensive to search out, download, and collate all 195 of my YT video tutorials. The collection lets you pay a flat fee, click a couple of buttons, and have them all appear on your PC desktop in an hour or two. That's not a bad deal, for somebody who decides that they really want all those videos.
Last Edited by on Jul 25, 2010 4:22 AM
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groyster1
262 posts
Jul 25, 2010
9:25 AM
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@rucker z
I bought the blues harmonica secrets revealed dvd for convenience sake and it is great for fundamentals-I have downloaded several of adams tradebits that I have bought along with printing off the tab sheets that are quite useful-my favorite tradebit lessons he has made is the tone clinic as I am trying to get proficient @ vibrato
Last Edited by on Jul 25, 2010 9:26 AM
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