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I was looking at the sheet music for El Paso at “musicnotes” and under a half note there are three slash marks on the stem. The same marks are also below the tab numbers. Any idea what they mean?

I looked at the Hewlett lessons and they were on sale ,so I picked up the basic beginner and blues licks. I was a little leery, because the basic price was $199.00 per lesson marked down to $12.95. That’s quite the reduction. When I looked at a harmonica chart and seen all the notes below, it was confusing.Now, I see they are the notes you can bend to. I found a free app on line that listens to the notes, so that I can see the notes as I blow or draw and also tell if I am bending correctly. The app lets me pick the Key. Bending does seem difficult even on the first hole. Thanks again.

I think Hohner still makes that double sided model of harmonica.

I have a Lee Oskar in A and it draws real easy.I am new at this, but I know the reeds can go bad. Some are replaceable, but at what cost I am not sure. When I was reading about harmonica keys, some folks said the G harmonica was hard to draw.Oh yea, I did read something about a gap that can be adjusted to make it easier, but at this point I couldn’t tell you much about that.

I think that the reeds go bad after awhile of playing. I signed up for some lessons that nutty 1 recommended and the teacher demonstrated about 10 different types, But none were double sided. I have come to the conclusion that a diatonic Harmonica is the most common. I mentioned earlier, playing the guitar sure makes understanding the theory of the harmonica easy. The learning curve seems to be at about the same pace as a guitar, I started out with Red River valley and it sounded about what it sounded like on the guitar when I first started.

Am pentatonic over the A7 chord. Since there is no C in the A7 you might try sliding up to the C# and see if you like the difference.

Thanks I probably will be looking for lessons pretty soon.

Thanks, I went to guitar center to buy a Lee Oskar C harmonica and they didn’t have a C. So I bought a A. The first thing I learned when I got home was that playing guitar really helps to understand the way the harmonica works.I would have really been frustrated, if I didn’t know the major scales,Blues scales.Dorian and mixolydian scales minor 3rds chords etc. Without guitar theory I would have traded it for tuna salad sandwich. It still seem impossible to blow or draw on only one of those small holes. And I don’t see how anyone “bends” those holes with breaking the thing.😃 One trivia question for you before I close. What did they decorate the White House Christmas Tree with in 1925?

I have been trying to learn Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” but I got side tracked with his harmonica solo. He plays it on a G harmonica. My question for you harmonica players is should I go out and buy a G harmonica or should I start to learn with a C or A. What do you think?

Thanks, I have 3 slides of different design that fit my second, ring and pinky fingers.That should help me decide on which finger and what type of slide.

“cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans” “Proud Mary”, by Creedence Clearwater Revi....The intro rhythm at 120 bpm is quite the challenge. I really enjoy working on it. Keep it in mind for session 16 on advanced strumming. ”no it’s not pain or tane it’s PANE, Some folks think they hear tane and it’s short for “octane” as in pumping gas in New Orleans which seems logical based on the previous line.The lyrics show pane, which is slang for LSD.

Anyone just learning slide guitar? Today was my first day. I picked up 3 slides, books and DVDs awhile back, but, I just never made the time. Deep down, I thought it would be to difficult. Now, I think I am ready to get serious. I even have a dedicated guitar. Today I played around with open G, open E, drop D and standard tuning and worked on muting strings I am still not sure which finger I will end up using for the slide, but I am guessing there’s really only three choices.Bonnie Raitt uses her second, Duane Allman used his ring, but most Like Rick Vito seem to favor their pinky. This is something I have wanted to try since seeing Bonnie Raitt play a few years ago.

When you look at some older used acoustic guitars most seem to have humps behind the bridge and corresponding dips in front. When you lay a straight edge on the guitar top the hump becomes obvious. I was wondering if these humps and dips were telltale signs of a guitar that was on the verge of being unplayable or is a little hump a normal reaction to string tension and age. Does anyone have an older guitar, five to ten years or older, that was expensive, two or three thousand dollars or more new, does it have a hump? Just curious if expensive guitar have the same problem or if they have better bracing. I guess this is why some guitars have a tail piece.to counter the string tension.

I’ve been working on the rhythm for this song as part of new material I added to the Blues Course. It got me thinking about the song and it’s lyrics. There seems to be a lot of questions about the song and it’s lyrics. It seems that Port Chicago in California might be the Chicago referenced in the lyrics and not the Windy City. The book I added to session 1 is Hal Leonard’s “Blues Guitar.”

That depends. The key word in this exercise is “solo.” You could in fact start with your ring finger on the 10 fret C then Play the 8th fret Eb with your first finger then maybe your pinky on the 11th fret Bb and then back to C.Depending on the type of notes you choose, whole, half etc. you could play those notes in 1 measure or 2. Also, when you look at this exercise you might notice that it’s not just one solo, but 8. You might also consider getting a free trial of a program like “Guitar Pro 7” so you can write your solos out It nice to do this in a format that gives you both standard and tablature arrangement. P.S. I took the medium Latin to mean “moderate Latin - blues at 108 bpm.

It’s not the Dorian scale notes that make a difference it’s the chords you play them over. Play A Dorian over a Am chord and it will sound Dorian. Playing A Dorian over a G mayor chord will sound exactly t like playing G major scale.

I was looking at some sheet music and there was an asterisk by the chord symbol above the music. Below the tab the asterisk indicated that the “chord symbols reflect the implied harmony.” What are they telling me? I can see that most of the melody notes are chord tones of the chord shown. After hours of searching, the only thing I have found is that the chord symbol is providing addition information, for example the song is in the key of E, but the implied harmony of the song is “Actually related to the chord E7”. That is why the the melody notes align with the “implied harmony” than the key, for example the the key of E doesn’t have Db. The Db comes from the E7 chord and the melody notes contain the flatted D.

Thanks for the lesson. It cleared up a question I had about note selection. I was under the impression that you shouldn’t repeat notes.

I remember one post where he/she could play the G with fingers123 but not with 234 without muting the A string (B note) with the 3rd finger. My response to that problem would be don’t worry about muting the B, because you also have the open B string in the chord shape.Having said that I would also say keep practicing and try lowering your wrist and making sure your fingers are on their “tippy toes” One hand exercise you might try is to finger the G Chord with just your 3rd and 4th fingers and then play the related notes A (with second finger,) C (with first finger)and F# (with second finger) , play these notes individually while Keeping fingers 3.and 4 in place. You should be capable of fingering the G chord and then removing your thumb from the neck while strumming. I also find that the 4 finger method of playing the G chord is my favorite. The G barre chord is the easiest. You can use the site search tool, but limit your search to the letter “G and fingering” to narrow the search.

That’s a good one.Have you watched justin’s “Day Tripper lesson”? Lesson SB-225

“Smells like Teen Spirit”! This is a song I stayed away from years ago because of its name. When I started working on power chords the song came up on a list of songs that use power chords, so I thought I would take another look. The first thing I learned was that the song was named after a deodorant called “Teen Spirit” and not the body odor of teenagers at a football game. The lyric of the song are as confusing as the name and “I feel stupid and contagious” for not knowing that the song’s name was referring to Colgate-Palmolive’s “cute girlie deodorant”. Anyway Marty Schwartz at Marty’s Music (YouTube) has a lesson on power chords using this song that’s pretty good. P.S. After the release of the song deodorant sales spiked up.

Steve seems to have left out the whispering at the beginning of the song “shoot me, shoot me, shoot me, shoot me” I don’t think shoot me refers to gun violence, but to shooting cocaine. I also think that “Coca Cola” in the lyrics is also a referring to cocaine. I am not surprised that this song was never used as it was originally intended, as a politicians campaign song.

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Thanks, I see what he’s doing now. I never thought of the caged system in terms of minor chords. I have been using the Am7 notes as they relate to each pentatonic pattern. Too bad the minor caged system only works for 60% of the pentatonic patterns.