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I got to meet him when I was 11. I brought my harp everywhere, and he was playing in our small town grassroots festival. When he came down for a break, I patiently waited what felt like forever to meet him and ask him how he played the octave intro to Boogie… he said: “You got one of them fancy harps in A?” “Yes Sir! I do!” “Lemme see it…” *hands him my only A marine band “Aight, it goes like this…you ready?” *Plays the intro like only he could *hands me back the harp “Now get away from my stage” I just stood there… stuck in awe and a bit freaked out that he played my harp, and didn’t help me at all. I didn’t realize the lesson he was teaching me at the time, but almost 25 years later I had a similar encounter with a young harp player at a gig… I gave him the same lesson Shaky gave to me. Only slightly nicer 😂 RIP Shaky Horton… one of the best musicians to ever live

Willie Dixon, who played sessions for all the great Chicago blues harp men, said that Big Walter was the best of them all, that nobody could get more tones out of a harmonica.

love it

Ouais ouais Bébé tu le fais bien tu fais le Bien

His hands are his filter and his wah pedal.

The title of this video is entirely wrong and misleading... just to get some clicks.

Serious as a judge😍

second position = A

this video seems to have lost its audio? anyone else experiencing this?

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Play every day,,learn everyday ,,you will get the tone you want ,,take the high road,,,,i t is worth it,,,

Watch, WORK, and learn. He was a true giant. I may be mistaken but it looks to me like he kind of crushed the covers a bit. But hey, it's just a harp!

That quick sleight of hand

awesome

Love the dramatic hand switch at 0:53, with that strange meaty sound.

Was lucky to see him once at Tramps in NYC in the 1980s one of the best shows i have seen

He told me that tone comes from breath control and that's it's all in the diaphram. He was a great man, and I think the best harp player who ever lived, although he said that it was Little Walter. In another interview, he was asked about people adopting or stealing his style. He said if they take my style, I get me another. I saw him do things that are out of this world and that no one will ever duplicate. Truth. When I asked him if there was anyone who he respected, he said Kim Wilson. That was in 78 or 79, Kim has another 40 years of experience.

Great stuff!! Thanks for posting.

There are very few white guys today that get it. There’s lots of white guys who can play all the notes, who can play all the riffs, they can “do” Big Walter Horton, they can “do” Sonny Boy but there’s ALWAYS something that doesn’t quite fit, that needs to be fixed. This IS it, not like it. It CAN NOT not be it. He’s not playing a million notes, everything is completely natural, fits, of one piece. The train is always on the track.

Great re post He is the man

He and Little Walter stand alone in my book!!!

thanks big walter! before this video I never knew where 'all the secret sounds" of the harmonica came from, but with this awesome explanation I can, further than understanding, play it even better than you. hhhahahaa obviously it's a joke... You are God on harmomica, but the devil when it comes to teaching... you're just showing off maan!

Tiró la armonica?

I believe that's Ronnie Earl on guitar

We all probably have two useful hands and can mimic what he does with his... but man, can any of you get that tone doing something that simple? I doubt it. The fact that he makes it look simple doesn't mean it is simple at all, and if it was, he wouldn't be so recognised by his tone... He is brilliant because he's able to do what no one does: the fullest harmonica sound ever played. So after all, we have to admit it ain't that easy, there's a lot of technique he's omitting behind that modesty... or perhaps just an enormous natural talent that not even he is able to know where is come from. It might've been the devil who gave it to him haha (I don't know)

Ruined a classic!!

He didn't explain shit!

Very detailed explanation! But, wow, he’s a genius. :-D

Actually I think he does his best to avoid explaining his technique -the vid Title is rather misleading really -because it's almost all Mr Horton actually playing ,which is fabulous of course !

Mestre!

He's not giving away any secrets here :-)

Love the sound of those hands.

Young Ronnie Earl on guitar!!!

3 jealous amateur harp players disliked this

between Google interrupting my enjoyment with their sign in deflection, Norton 'safesearch' filtering of my results, and lousy audio quality like ,EmaBluesHarp's UA-cam channel, UA-cam is killing free speech, and I can't turn my volume up loud enough to hear Big Walter Horton explain his technique.

Listen up children and learn from one of the MASTERS of the blues harp.

It doesn't hurt to have 11" hands.

is that Brian Bisezzi on guitar?

Does anyone know which actual harp key he is playing. I would guess it he is playing in 2nd position, but which actual harp?

Sure you can get some great effects using your hands but a lot of Walters tone comes from his throat & of course his fantastic tongue blocking technique...

Walter Horton says the sound is generated from his hands. I would never have thought that. The hands is the primary source of the sound. I thought the hands assisted in making the sound from the mouth. But according to the video this is not the case. It is in the hands. This is good to know.

great! but who's the guitarman?

Well I guess, the less sentences, the more important...

The final climax is epic "Wah wah wah wah!"

No seen this before very interesting. Big Walter a master a doing a lot with less .Excellent

Shakey is fibbing. He's also bending those notes with his tongue, mouth/jaw.

The greatest innate tone ever...fact

Yep, ONE of the best...

Who´s the guy on the guitar??