Gussow shows you some tricks on a B-flat harp, including how to throw a first-position blues scale (with overblows) into a cross-harp slow blues. He’s previewing a new album, LIVE IN KLINGENTHAL, which is available for download at the following URL: www.tradebit.com For lots more blues harmonica stuff, including a series of video tutorials and tabs focused on classic and contemporary repertoire, please visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
First in an extended series of conversations about the blues, jazz, and soul LPs that helped one harmonica player on his creative journey. Referenced in this video: Johnny Young, “Tighten Up On It,” with Big Walter Horton on harp, THE GREAT BLUESMEN (Vanguard VSD-25/26) www.modernbluesharmonica.com
Third in a mini-series by Adam Gussow of Satan and Adam. AG cycles through several harp-based tracks on a recent Seattle blues album and shows you how to steal licks and hear what’s actually going on in the music. If you’d like to purchase a copy of my new solo album, KICK AND STOMP (2010), please hit the following link. Only for 14 tracks of harp-powered one-man band music, all for instant download. Liner notes included!: www.modernbluesharmonica.com For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tabs focusing on classic blues harmonica repertoire by Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and others, please visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
Harpist Gussow explains the layout and history of “Adam Gussow’s Dirty-South Blues Harp Channel” at YouTube; he also clarifies the purpose of Modernbluesharmonica.com and his filesharing warehouse of instant harp-tutorial downloads at Tradebit.com. www.modernbluesharmonica.com To order “Blues Harmonica Secrets Revealed!, Vol. 1,” a DVD that collects more than FIVE HOURS of my early YouTube videos and adds two Satan and Adam videos, check out: www.modernbluesharmonica.com For orders outside North America, you can order the same item at this URL: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
An introduction to the fine art of singing, blowing harp fills, and keeping a strong beat, by Adam Gussow of Satan and Adam. Key of C harp. For a series of video lessons and tabs focused on particular songs and graded according to your skill-level, visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
The fourth and final installment of a mini-series on Ray Charles as a vinyl influence on one developing harp player. Here, Adam Gussow of Satan and Adam puts down his harp and picks up his guitar to help you make sense of the bluesy (but not blues) changes of “Hallelujah I Love Her So.” Don’t forget to check out the new Satan and Adam album, WORD ON THE STREET: HARLEM RECORDINGS, 1989. The rawest, funkiest street blues you’ve ever heard: www.tradebit.com If you’re interested in learning the blues harmonica from the ground up, starting with the basics, you might want to check out my website. I’ve got jam tracks plus a skill-graded series of video tutorials and tab sheets focused on classic blues harp repertoire: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
An investigation and a challenge: Gussow discusses first position, overblow-charged playing on the high-key harps–unexplored territory, he claims. He invites you to prove him wrong. If you’d like to get a copy of the jam tracks album he’s working with here, you can find it as a download at: www.tradebit.com One harp player who remains unmentioned and who may, in fact, have explored first position, overblown, high-key harp stuff is Carlos DelJunco. Check him out: www.carlosdeljunco.com If you’re interested in exploring other dimensions of contemporary and traditional blues harmonica, please visit www.modernbluesharmonica.com
Final thoughts and some spirited playing from Satan and Adam harpist. For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tabs focusing on classic blues harmonica repertoire by Sonny Terry, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, and others, please visit: www.modernbluesharmonica.com
Harpist Gussow shows you how to copy a fast, tricky line from Sugar Blue’s new album, CODE BLUE, by breaking it down, note by note, lick by lick. Gussow is using a D harp. Sugar Blues’s website is: www.sugar-blue.com For a series of skill-graded video tutorials and tab sheets, plus lots of other cool harmonica stuff, please visit www.modernbluesharmonica.com
