Blues Harmonica Rope-a-Dope (MBH.195)
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
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Here's a way to throw a little razzle-dazzle into your harmonica playing: a heavily syncopated one-chord breakdown. Your guide is Adam Gussow of Oxford, Mississippi.
Harp key: A
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Your the best Adam. Every time someone tells me the want to learn harmonica, i direct them your way.
Because of this man, I can now play harmonica. I learned while driving.
Thank you Adam I am playing this as #101 of 568, from your youtube page I hit play all since last night, all I'm here for get thumbs up! Can't be here for all I have a part time life!
This blows me away. Thank you so much, Adam
YES!!! Oh, I expect to spend much time replaying this video. That riff is GOLD!!! Thank you, once again, for giving us access to the subtleties we might never have learned to recognize without you.
This is so badass wonderful, thank you Adam
I'm so glad to see you making these videos again. This kind of on the run break down lesson is awesome. Thank you!
this is a full blown sweet riff , Adam, nice hair cut too -- summer coming
Your sound is so individual, I've never heard anyone playing that way of your's. Feels really beautiful; thank you! :)
Sorry if I offended you, it was not my intention to criticize you or accuse you of copyright or intellectual properties violations. All I wanted to do was let you know that I have been paying attention to what you've been saying. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the you tube lessons. they have taken my harmonica playing up further than anything I've done on my own in the last 40 years.
Is great that you broke down this riff. At the beginning of the video it seemed really hard stuff, and still it is, but breaking it down into manageable pieces makes it possible for the average non-professional harmonica player.
Simply amazing, keep up the great video's, thank you.
New lesson from Adam Gussow = Happiness! :)
Back with lessons? Awesome! Keep em coming if you can... I'll watch every one!
Oh yah, gotta save this one. Thumbs up and thanks for sharing
Awesome awesome awesome video. This video made me a little bit better player and for that I thank you most sincerely. I am going to practice this riff like crazy and I will definitely be watching more of your videos.
Thanks Adam!!
Thank You Adam.
Thanks I like the sound of the lip pursing better.
thank god you're back adam! love ya
cool jam thanks for doing this
Excellent, thanks for sharing.
This riff sounds SO good! Thank you for breaking it down so slowly. I can see right off that I have to work on my breathing technique because all the draw notes in a row are giving me trouble.
I'll suggest you try to spot why it gives you trouble. If it's a rythm problem, play staccato (all the notes or some of them) in a way that complements the groove, that makes it "live". If the problem is bend-related, work on switching from a unbent note to a bent note, especially between 2 draw and 3 draw bent a semi and a full tone. 3 draw bends are hard to master but gives a lot of notes to groove on and to respond to the chords in your phrasing. Adam does this a lot (and he's not the only one but he's damn good at it. Check J. Ricci lesson on the 3 draw bends. He makes a full 12 bar blues using only 3 draw bends. Made sense to me and led me to major breaktrough in my playing). If it's a breathing problem, you can blow by the nose while playing the side to side 2 blow and 3 blow. It may help you to catch you breath on all these draw notes, thus giving you more precision. Hope that helps Dan. Have fun ;)
Much obliged. I'm sure my biggest problem is lack of practice time. With a full time job and 2 grand kids to take care of, I'm limited, so these tips should definitely help.
Repetition is indeed pretty much the only real way to permanently solve the problem you are describing, but some strategy is involved. Air flow is ridiculously important with any wind instrument and harmonica is deceiving because it is very forgiving when it comes to air velocity... but managing the air is another story altogether. If you watch some of Adam's other videos and listen to his playing a lot trying to duplicate every little detail, you start to figure out that he, just like other players, is using very small gaps in his playing or effects like "chucking" to expel or intake air as needed. Adam goes over in one video (I forget which) how he actually opens his mouth up further than you think on the 1-2-3 blow you hear him and many other harp players going for all the time, solely for the purpose of expelling air.
All harp players figure out over time where to "spend" their air and where to save it. You can tell that he's barely playing above a mezzo-piano or so for the bulk of the riff like the stuff on the 2-draw and 1-draw especially since they don't need much air to sound properly, then he's accenting the 3-4 draw (for multiple reasons).
One painful exercise I subject myself to once in a while is I forcing myself to play something I'm learning at piano or pianissimo. This forces you to tighten up your playing and will ensure you actually run out of oxygen before you run out of room to draw air into. Then you can start throttling up more and figuring out how you want to spend your air.
Thanks, Adam !!!!!!!!
Good to have you back, Adam! I wish I just found the time and motivation (and well, harps other than C :D) to learn some of these!
Great little riff that. Love it :)
Thak you very much Adam!
Great stuff Adam))
Thanks for reloading your lessons.
That's all for today - lmao 😄 You're a genius!
Thanks for sharing.
ohh thats great
Excellent!, I'm discovering your vidéos, thank you for your harp lessons!
(scuse me for my bad english, J write from France)
The little side to side whipadoodle move is the same thing Magic Dick does at the beginning of WhammerJammer, btw
Yes, you're absolutely right. And Magic Dick got the move from Sonny Boy (Rice Miller), he told me. The truly new stuff is rare; what's important is to combine and recombine in creative ways.
just thought you would like to se some fruits of your videos , you got a great style and i borrowed some and tried it out
Ole dirty and greasy Mississippi blues Ab harp
That shit was freaking dope I loved it :)
thx a lot!!
Is that first 3 draw bend note being played on the downbeat of 1?
10:37 is an awesome sound - how do you do that?
GTOAviator It's tongue flutter man
you look like tom hank
Bye bye bird
Glenn Nielson : Actually, no. Sonny Boy's riff shares one specific move that I employ here--the 2b 3b 2b diddle-daddle--but most of what I'm doing here is my own stuff.