basic principles of blues harmonica improvisation
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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For blues harmonica beginners and others: a lesson on the power of repetition-with-variation and keeping the beat. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica. Gussow is currently appearing on Netflix in the documentary "Satan & Adam." • SATAN & ADAM. Official...
Use a key of C harmonica!
Gussow: Its gonna get fricky dicky in 2020.
Coronavirus: hey how ya doin?
Yes.
It’s now July 2020 and your quote ‘2020 is gonna get real freaky-deaky........We’d better have the harmonica working for us’ is now inscribed on the lid of my harp box!
For me this is one of the best videos yet. Pure gold.
And 2022 is getting even weirder! Imma just keep harping the daemons away thanks to this guy!
Mr Gussow, just feel I need to put It into the universe. I watched your Documentary early this year and it changed my life. The story was so deep, not only did it assist me in discovering the Blues (where was it all my life!) but you covered the journey of Mental Health so well. Not stigmatising in any way but instead inspiring. Most importantly on a selfish level your movie made me fall in love with the Harmonica. Since then I have started learning and have purchased all your beginner and advance beginner material. It has been so much fun and and added so much to my life. So thank you for Inspiring me, someone who said they could not play any Instrument for years. As a manager of Mental Health Services in Australia, I have directed all my staff old and new to watch your movie. Cheers.
Whats the name of the documentary and where can I find it?
@@human-connections It's called "Satan and Adam". It's available on Netflix in the USA and a few other countries. Otherwise, you can find it on Amazon. It's well worth the purchase price. I've watched it four times, so far, and it made me cry every time (in a good way)...each time for a different, new thing I got out of it...and I already knew the story before seeing it. That's how good it is!
@@human-connections UA-cam has ua-cam.com/video/YJodo7jHNkU/v-deo.html
I've read the book "Mr. Satan's Apprentice." A great read.
Mental health services, I really hope I don’t end up there…. But maybe thanks to this guy and finally getting to playing the harp I got 20 years I won’t…
Adam
I have been following you for years. My harp skills are much better because of you. I have been asked to join a blues band. We have our first performance Feb. 9. This is because you have taken the time to share your knowledge. I thank you again.
I feel a kindred spirit with you not only through blues harp but because I am an educator also. I teach AP Literature and Composition at a high school in Florida.
Teaching and playing the blues gives me great pleasure.
Happy New Year.
Shawn.
Dr gussow you are the man of 10+ years you tube free lessons thats how i started years ago with you!now i am good full tonque blocker thanks on all you did for us,when i see you its like menthor-old friend cheers and merry c!
Thanks for letting me know! I'm happy to have helped you.
7:05 I am amazed at the accuracy of your prediction about 2020. Great lesson by the way.
Man! My wife blessed me with a set of Fender Blues Harmonicas for Christmas to add to my Cigar Box Guitar playing and i am over the moon! So excited to learn this amazing instrument and so glad I found your channel! Thanks for the work you do!! All the way from South Africa its Barry
Hey Barry. How you doing ?
I started with a Fender. Mom gift me last christmas.
How is going so far ?
Im about a month using it now... And love it... How you doing after 4 and some years ?
i have numerous harmonica UA-camrs but Adam Gussow videos depicts how much he immersed in the Harmonica ! The way he shares stuff creates a huge impact , he's is one of the finest Blues players.... hats off 😊
Hi MR Adam wasson i really like your Blues I currently play the Harmonic but not by note just liricly following the tune of the song I wish you can send me your cellphone number so we can talk by phone please if you want mine I'll send it to you.
you are so true.... tough start for the 2020, really glad that I got a harmonica to practice with
I’m you but today
Man. Your videos have gotten me through MANY MANY hard days. At work at home wherever. No matter how many other teachers there are it dosent matter. You lift the spirits of all of us. Even when I can tell behind the scenes you maybe having some stuff going on, this is you. Please continue. We’ll take whatever you can put out.
Thank you so much Adam, this was excellent
Gussow I am very appreciative of you time and your talent thank you for the lessons I am learning so much from you and I am actually starting to make something other than noise!
I just started 4 weeks ago. I really developed thanks for your videos and your direction, words, various example. It is really useful.
You made me want to play harmonica, and now I practice everyday. Your videos have inspired me and help/motivate me! So thank you!!! 🤗👍🏽🤘🏽❤️
Waiting for more content! Always lovely to see a lesson from you because its more teaching life through the harmonica
Glad to see you back Mr. Gussuow, insightful material as always!
I found a new title for your channel - "Best Car Videos On The West". Love what you do in your mobile office :) Cheers
I subscribed after the first video because I saw how genuine you are. Great teaching, you know how to inspire, and you're a wise guy, kudos.
Дедушка Гассов лучший! Счастливого рождества!
You sir are inspirational. I don’t unfortunately have a musical bone in my body but you give me the inspiration to enjoy the harp in spite of my failings. Best wishes Brian.
Merry Christmas Adam! Glad you took the time to make another video. :)
Thank you!!!! Please release more videos!!!! I started playing after u slowed down. You the goat
Thanks, Adam. That's just about the best video I've seen on Improvisation I've seen, and I've seen alot. Some by you many by others. This is one of my biggest problems. I'm 72 and have been learning for about 6-7 years. I mostly play straight melodies mainly because of this improv block that I have. That and my tin ear. Thanks again.
Thanks, Richard. The key is, Simplify! And set a beat in motion.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 Got it.
I've just picked up my harp again after a long break and want to really knuckle down and learn properly this time. Great video :)
I picked up the harmonica a year ago. You were the first teaching video I came across. I now try and learn from all your vids. Thanks for putting out great material. Also purchased your materials and still have so much to learn.
This is one of my favourite lessons you’ve done! Love your improv slow blues gussow gets me out on the front porch tappin a beat, cheers from New Zealand
That is the best foundation lesson for improvisation I’ve ever seen. Thanks for the time.
Mr Gussow. You have skills. Great help to me. Thanks.
Thank you for being such a great teacher I'm just learning harp because it's portable and I like the sound I think you'll be right in 2020 improvisation is where you get your true energy out there because it comes from the heart... All the best
Love it! The touchstone riff is catchy and easy to build on. Thanks!
Amazing Thanks Adam, 😊, fantastic lesson on improvisation!!
Amazing video! Happy new year 2022 for you all.
Merry Christmas! And great video too- helped quite a bit, thanks.
Ooooh man I'm enjoying this video so much ❤️ with you're help Mr. Gussow I've improved so much in just a month, and now I can make little improvisation and following a guitar and that's making me very happy cause a month ago I didn't know how to even hold and harmonica 😂😂 I'm sticking to my hour a day practicing. Keep on dropping good quality video as always and thank you!
OMG! Is a beautiful lesson!
Great! Amazing! Fantastic! I'm learning to play blues harmonica finally! Thank You so much, Adam!
Adam ,thank you ,you basically got me into playing the harp
even though I got a teacher know and I wach less of your videos every time you post
a new one it's always spot on so
Pure gold.
❤ I appreciate your lessons and spreading the "harp" word! A.G.,however, is stuck on A.G. Thank you!😊
This has been super useful! Thanks Adam! Merry Christmas.
thanks i was off in space playing and know you made me think and slow down and come back down to earth with a groove
Thanks for the lesson and I hope the new year brings you good health and many happy and unexpected surprises.
Thanks Adam! And merry Christmas to you too.
Happy holidays Adam, thanks for your teaching.
Great lesson Adam !!!
I've been playing blues harp for nearly eleven years...with major thanks to you since the very beginning...and _this_ video (right around the 12:05 mark) perfectly defined a "rut" in which I often find myself. I often trade _expression_ for _precision._ Jon Gindick told me, several years ago, that I needed to work on _restraint,_ and I'm still working on it. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, he will be victorious who knows when to play and when _not_ to play. I seldom play a note I don't intend, but now I'm working on simplifying, minimizing, and finding the music in the rests. (I love that you referenced Jason Ricci later because several of his _own_ seminars have included the lesson that non-stop lightning can become monotonous if we don't break it up and slow it down.)
P.S. MAD RESPECT for being honest...and _vulnerable..._ enough to amend, "I'm not really warmed up, and this harp's not really comfortable quite yet," _to,_ "Let's be honest. I was tryin' to show off a little bit, and it didn't quite work for me." (I guess we're both still working on restraint.) As much as any technique, honest self-evaluation is an invaluable skill...in music and in life. Thank you, once again, for setting a great example!
Restraint is a key virtue, but it's not one that we harp-god wannabes are known for! And sometimes, to be honest, our audience WANTS us to throw down.
@@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 Solid points! It's just a matter of learning what songs (or sections of songs) call for what kind of expression and how to let the fire...breathe. Of course, you already know all this. LOL! Your video on blues archetypes is a great _crash course_ in this; I often remind myself, "You can't _always_ be a warrior."
Thank you
Ace bro. Cheers.
Good to see you again Adam!
You're the best harp dude on UA-cam, you've got the most personality and "it" factor, and your harp ain't bad either hahaha, it"a awesome.. Thank you for the videos sifu!
Thanks Adam for the preview of the book. I know it is going to be a great seller. It touches on many of the concerns I have about the Blues and how the music is regarded and played.
He fortold the future of the world here😮
Great to hear from you!
Nice to see you back at it again Adam! Merry Christmas!
Merry X-Mas Adam!!!!! Im glad you're back!!! Cheers from Argentina!!!
Great to see you again, Adam. Happy Christmas!
Unfortunately your documentary isn’t yet available in Europe, I look forward to seeing it soon.
We get it in the UK
I put in a request on french Netflix but still waiting.. :'(
We still haven’t got it...
Thanks Adam. Happy New Year too!
Got my harmonica a month ago and this is your first video since I’ve subscribed! My little brother got a harmonica for Christmas after seeing me use mine and we were jamming out with my uncle on his guitar! So much fun. Merry Christmas Mr Gussow!
Crazy Critterz he has vast catalogue of lessons. There is everything you need
I also started with Adam’s videos, around 10 years ago. You can’t go wrong with his lessons and lectures. Highly recommended 👍
Happy harpin’!
D Guitar I’m 2 years in and so way behind you it’s who new wold. Happy harping
Andy Dunn Really is, but so much fun. I think the key is to play with other people as much as possible 👍
PS check out Ronnie Shellist’s channel too - he’s a good friend of Adam’s and another great teacher 😃
So good to see you back with more! Happy Holidays! :)
Dziekuje Adam.Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku oraz wielu inspiracji...
Happy new year Adam.
Thanks for the lesson.
I have learned a lot from you.
Keep up your “great work.”
Great, Gussow!
Trank you once again, Adam.
Thanks Adam
Merry Christmas Adam....🎄🎅😃
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year your a fantastic teacher back in the 70s James Cotton played a lot in Ct at the Shaboo Inn also muddy waters and many other great bluesman so happy to have seen such talent!
Thank you Dr. G....You never fail to inspire...Thank you and Happy New Year.
Good video!
Great 👍🏼
Merry Christmas to you and yours Adam.
Great session! Thanks for sharing.
This was a great video for those like me who want to try and race to become better
Top notch advice
Hi Adam great to see u back in car👍, been with you a long time now, always an inspiration, merry Christmas and many thanks...
The car--whatever car I'm driving--will always be my main venue. Drive on!
Yes, the car is a signature venue for Adam, and it works really well!
i like that,get back to the begining of a riff,and sometimes get lost in it,but try to get it back to the begining.but to keep the beat the same
Love your videos. I wish you would have been on the Tar Matt when Lane Kiffin showed up and was greeted as the new Head Football Coach, it would have been great to hear you playing in the background. Happy New Year.
Hi Adam just wanted not start off by saying you are hands down my favorite blues harmonica player of all time. Although I would have to compare my style to Jason Richie , you are what I truly aspire to be like one day. One thing you mentioned during this amazing lesson, was you were an endorser for Honer 🤔 and not only that they give you free gear. If you could what advice would you give to a player looking to get on the level of playing. I have watched almost all your videos and the one were you touch on how to make a career out of playing the harmonica. My goal is to by this summer be able to get out on the street and be busking. The only think is having the funds to buy decent equipment...... I am also a guitar player so I have a VOX valvetronix 50vt amplifier among many and lots of different mics. But really I would like to get the Honer Bulletin for practiced and be my main harp. But where Im from just outside Vancouver BC Canada. Thoes go for around the $100 . So if you could give me some pointers I would really appreciate it. Happy harping. Yours truly.
Steve.
Thanks Adam. Missed ya!
Two great examples of "repetition-with-variation" are Beethoven's 7th & 9th symphonies. In each he takes a few reoccurring theme & proceeds with variations in rhythm, melody, tempo, phrasing, textures, tone, mood, intensity. He totally exhausts the possibilities while keeping to a consistently recognizable & recurring theme. (And if you study his life, you'll know he was a bluesman at heart.)
Interesting! I didn't know that, but the moment I played that melody through my head, your comment made sense.
So love the Satan and Adam thanks so much for all you do. Great video here as well thanks and Happy New Year 2020 here we come man
That's so impressing!Thanks!
Thanks, what a great lesson.
Now i know i really need to practice my scales and arpeggios, because i don't have an automatic good guess when i try to play something new. I never realised music can be this hard when i picked up the harmonica for the first time.
You blasted! Your prediction comes true. Hard 2020 but better with a harp. Saludos
“damn, damnit” ur a legend
Merry Christmas to u and your loved ones..
how is it that I can understand what you're trying to say? Thanks for being considerate and true
What a cool lick!
Here's what I'm hearing...
-3' -3' -2 -2" -2 -2
(-3"-3 +3) (-3" -3 +2) -2
I hear
-3’ -3’ -2 -2” - 2 - 2
-3’ -2 -3’ -2 - 2” -1 -2
Great lesson as always
Merry Christmas
And thank you my teacher
Iive and let live
Gussow!!!!
Happy Holidays Adam!!! Been a fan a student of yours for years!! Appreciate all of your knowledge every time! I’m Head Engineer OG a recording studio in NYC Times Square, can’t wait till your in town!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🏆🏆🏆🏆🤘🤘🤘👽👽👽👽
Thanks I always learn
Adam please do more improv over 12 bars i love them.
I love this
Ok ok ok... I wanted to be first. But this was honestly a great lesson. Thanks Adam!
Sounds good Adam alright, I wish I could play that??
Before I was good enough to play little Walter on the harp I used to just play the vocal Melody, and the same with howlin wolf. It's all blues & it's all good.. :)
Merry Christmas and happy new year. Great lesson. Need to get a quieter timer.
I need tabs