jason. it is with great respect that I made the suggetion to number your postings...I respect the fact that you have posted tutorials for free... I value them so much that I feared I may miss even one!!!Numbering them would help ensure that all your lessons ( especially if you end up posting many) are viewed by people that are seeking them out. I was only trying to be helpful.. thanks..rich
This video shows any harp player the importance on working all the blow bends available on the harp. As the harp is an instrument so easy to be badly played, is important to make people know things like what is shown in this video. Again, great lesson.
You're talented. You're centred on those fast riffs posted in other videos as well. A sign of someone who really knows how to play. Thanks for sharing.
Jason, This is one of the best, most informative and useful lessons I have ever recieved. A million thanks and don't worry about me stealing any of your gigs. Thank-you, Jay
I've been playing 33 years, benefitted greatly from Gindick and Gussow's stuff, and feel blessed to be alive at a time when someone as good as Jason Ricci is sharing his absurd ability. My playing with bands has improved tremendously. THANK YOU Jason.
Jason very solid examples of "how to be good" on this fabulous instrument. thanks. you and gindick and gussow have me running in circles trying to play harp day and night. what a crazy passion. I will look up your music now and look forward to reviewing your past harp lessons. I've signed on board with you. peace
Jason, thanks for all of your vids- I am just starting out and have been practicing you and Mr. Gussow's lessons every night. I hope to see both of you guys someday in South Fla!
Brilliant Lesson. Thanks for all your help. I have never heard a harmonica played like that. This is the first lesson that really makes sense and how these great players make those sounds which we just don't get or get by accident to some degree. Im off to practice a bend lol.
Jason, I wish I was as good at anything as you are at the harp. I appreciate you willingness to share and I have learned a lot from you. Hang in there. Jake
Thanks for the instruction. It seems tedious at times, but it is obvious to us that aren't natural musicians, that spending the time on the basics is the way to true improvement.
Hi Bird, Thanks for the comment, our stuff is on on itunes, Borders, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, Cd Baby and stuff like that thanks so much for your interest. Keep playing.
Jason... Great, great video! "Big Al" here. We met at your gig in Marietta, GA about two months ago at Damon's. I would be nice if there was some written tab provided along with your video so that us "visual learners" can use it as overlap. Heck...just put it on an PDF file and charge us... In the meantime...these are just what we need!
I did learn it once upon a time....If you start in third you can play the Major section in 1st on the same harp! But I forgot it...Brady taught it to me.
Cheers Ricci.. really helpful. Re: using the 3-hole draw to play the whole 12 bar pattern.. just heard a great example on Two Old Maids by Shakey Walter Horton (just over two minutes in).. though he uses the 2 hole draw for the first chord:
WOW,, whats with Jap. You are the MAN.. You are the Master of bending..I have been playing for 4 years, can only dream about playing a quarter as well as u..
jason... just started looking at your postings... please number them sequentially so that I know how many postings you have made...also assist in navigating thru them...would allow me to find the first -last and rest in the middle... thank.... rockin rich
Love your playing man.. iv been playing 30 years.. Mainly Sonny Terry.. I just brought my first Seydel noble.. and its beautifully made.. in the key of A. Still learning.. it i need to brush up on my scales. I play by ear. But thanks man.. I appreciate your teachings.
Every time someone writes something like this, more discussion ensues, and my ratings and placement and subsequent partner pay ( From Google adsense ) increases. So keep 'em coming .
holy crap man.. thank you soo much for dropping the science on us... your clips are amazing.. some are a little too quick for me, but they are all great! THANKS SOO MUCH!!!
Learning to do it yourself will improve your knoledge of the instrument as well as your playing. It takes practice just like playing but is well worth it I didn't buy a custom harmonica until two years ago and I have been playing for 18 years overblowing for ten. Check it out thanks for watching! j
initially I used a piano or keyboard, i only got to use the bendometer once but I like that thing, most the time now I can hear it myself, when I don't my band or my friends do. I'm not doing a youtube on harp repair,mods,maintenance until I get a vid camera (Not on my Computer) and some one to help me film, it would be hard to see all the little moves you do and i don't want people ruining their harps cause they can't really see/understand how I emboss,arc, gap etc.
Jason you just knocked me off my perch! I will have to get more accurate to even get near what you showed on this clip.Thanks so much for your insights into my instrument.It will take me another eon but I will keep up the practice!! Guys like you and Adam Gussow open new worlds for me. You are such important influences in my playing. I wish I could reciprocate in kind.
Great video, impressive stuff, Especially at the end with the playing on hole 3. Btw do we ever get a lesson on overblows, Im not really there yet skill-wise, but it would be interessting to see how you make them. Bend-o-meter gotta check that out 8-)
Hello Jason! Thanks for another great lesson! It helps me a lot to get those bends that I couldn't get before. Just a question. I can't overblow the notes.Actually I don't know how to do it and in what wholes could I do it. Thanks a lot Jason, keep rokin'!!!
If you want to hear something bizarre and different, try singing into it while you play. When you modulate the blows and draws before they enter the harp it is absolutely wicked. Been doing it since late 70's. Harmonica Framptone?
Anyway, to prove the connexion between the two techniques, Jason himself said in his second part lesson on overblow/overdraw that "somehow it's easier to get the overdraws and overblows if you know what notes are missing". That's exactly what makes me get my first overblow, besides technical randomness. I've been almost dreaming of getting that minor third on the second octave. It nearly obsessed me. And one day, I heard the note, spent 4 hours repeating it until 6am to be sure I'll remember XD
jason, he more i watch your videos, the more I realize how much I need to learn more about playing the harmonica.....too bad they don't offer formal lessons in harmonica here where I come from, i'm just stuck with trying to learn from internet lessons like the one's you give..... anyway, i hope I could learn to play like you someday
HI guys. I'm only starting to bend notes on a harmonica and I'm getting a problem that I haven't heard discussed. For all the world it sound like the harmonica is going into feedback. (I'm not playing through an amp by the way) I take it a reed is resinating at a very high frequency how do i stop that? Any suggestions. Love the ring tone by the way very funny.
Oops,I thought that was the theme tune to "Alfred Hitchcock presents" that you segued into after the Fur Elise/Beethoven bit at about 5.09 ,realise it wasn't now, but its buggin me .I sure I have heard that line before??
well I'm not the best guys for a tuning lesson, I tune them a hair sharp by playing octaves and scraping the higher read with a file until the octaves are out of tune than I go back and fix the lower note. another way is to tune the 2 draw sharp till it matches the 3 blow then tune all the other notes off that until the whole harp is sharp 441,442,443 I don't know just sharp works for me
So my 4 yr old daughter comes home with a c harmonica from school... and I decide to mess with it ( been a working pro drummer/recording engineer for years) and I start blowing it... next thing i know i'm playinb some silly licks. So I go searching on youtube and i discover this killer series from jason... THANKS. I'm 46 yrs old, and more juiced about learning an instrument than I've been since i was 6. Do you have a legit DVD instructional series? If not... you should make one...
was i the only one that thought he was a girl till he took his hands off the harmonica??? anyways please dont be offended by this because your simply one of the best benders ive heard/seen on youtube and in person.
lmaooo i love this guy..aye yooo jasooon!! u go yourself a new fan..where can ibuy your music? and im learning the harmonica...stevie wonder made me want to learn ..and i finally bought one. keep the music and lessons comming j
Blow bends are on holes 1 to 6 (5 draw just a little bit). Blow bends are on holes 7 to 10 (7 does not bend). Overblows are mostly used on holes 4 to 6. As for draw bends: no it's not just drawing. It's drawing and at the same time changing the airflow by altering the position of your tongue. This way you can get multiple notes on one draw hole. That's quite easy on an A harp. Getting the notes perfectly in tune on the other hand requires a lot of practice. Not to mention overblows on low harps.
Hey Jason...Does your harp have to be any specific make and model? What do you use? Should it be well warmed up and whats the best way to do this? I'm using a Hohner blues harp in A, its the wooden sort..is this ok for this lesson?
hi jason! being a big fan of urs i seek nobody bt u help on Overblow! I have a Hohner special20 (key G). Though, its excellent for bending bt i've never been able to overblow a single note despite trying so many techniques!!! is it that special 20 is too hard for overblowing? cn u also give some tips for learning to overblow! thnks!
This has got to be the simplest chord education on a harmonica. Thank you, Sir!
jason. it is with great respect that I made the suggetion to number your postings...I respect the fact that you have posted tutorials for free... I value them so much that I feared I may miss even one!!!Numbering them would help ensure that all your lessons ( especially if you end up posting many) are viewed by people that are seeking them out. I was only trying to be helpful.. thanks..rich
This video shows any harp player the importance on working all the blow bends available on the harp. As the harp is an instrument so easy to be badly played, is important to make people know things like what is shown in this video. Again, great lesson.
You're talented. You're centred on those fast riffs posted in other videos as well. A sign of someone who really knows how to play. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent demo Jason. Between you and Gussow, my brain's about to explode with knowledge. Thanks man.
Jason,
This is one of the best, most informative and useful lessons I have ever recieved. A million thanks and don't worry about me stealing any of your gigs. Thank-you, Jay
I've been playing 33 years, benefitted greatly from Gindick and Gussow's stuff, and feel blessed to be alive at a time when someone as good as Jason Ricci is sharing his absurd ability. My playing with bands has improved tremendously. THANK YOU Jason.
Jason
very solid examples of "how to be good" on this fabulous instrument. thanks. you and gindick and gussow have me running in circles trying to play harp day and night. what a crazy passion. I will look up your music now and look forward to reviewing your past harp lessons. I've signed on board with you.
peace
This man is one hell of a good musician.
Thanks for sharing this...
Brilliant lesson-thankyou!
Six stars! I wish I'd had this sort of lesson available when I was learning.
--Adam Gussow
Hands down one of the best harmonica instructional and demo videos I have ever seen. Thanks Jason.
You really nailed some great points and ideas here!
Very Educational. Thank you. With you and Adam Gussow who needs any other training. Fantastic.
Jason, thanks for all of your vids- I am just starting out and have been practicing you and Mr. Gussow's lessons every night. I hope to see both of you guys someday in South Fla!
Brilliant Lesson. Thanks for all your help.
I have never heard a harmonica played like that.
This is the first lesson that really makes sense and how these great players make those sounds which we just don't get or get by accident to some degree.
Im off to practice a bend lol.
Jason, I wish I was as good at anything as you are at the harp. I appreciate you willingness to share and I have learned a lot from you. Hang in there.
Jake
Thanks for the instruction. It seems tedious at times, but it is obvious to us that aren't natural musicians, that spending the time on the basics is the way to true improvement.
Incredible accuracy. I am inspired, Jason. Thanks
Hey Jason,
now i know what i have to work on. It´s one Peace of my own Puzzle!
It will make my evening!
Thank you for giving it to us all!
Wolfgang
another great lesson J. keep em coming
Thanks very much. You doing a great job explaining what you're doing, and then doing it!
Hi Bird, Thanks for the comment, our stuff is on on itunes, Borders, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, Cd Baby and stuff like that thanks so much for your interest. Keep playing.
Thank you!!!! I'm so glad I watched this!!!! I was getting complacent, needing direction.
Nice! Thank you so much Terry! Keep coming back and I appreciate the nice comment!
Thanks Shmuzzer....You couls easily play this well seriously like 4o minutes a day with thee right stuff to practice and your there!
Ahh! I just started learning harmonica and this is such an awesome skill! Thanks for posting!!
-Sarah Rocks!
Thanks for another great lesson.
watched many videos but learning frm this one was outstanding....graet job..!!
Jason...
Great, great video! "Big Al" here. We met at your gig in Marietta, GA about two months ago at Damon's.
I would be nice if there was some written tab provided along with your video so that us "visual learners" can use it as overlap.
Heck...just put it on an PDF file and charge us...
In the meantime...these are just what we need!
Awesome performance
I did learn it once upon a time....If you start in third you can play the Major section in 1st on the same harp! But I forgot it...Brady taught it to me.
genio!! .. increible el estilo que tenes con la armonica!
saludos desde Argentina
Very knowledable, thank you for sharing
Cheers Ricci.. really helpful. Re: using the 3-hole draw to play the whole 12 bar pattern.. just heard a great example on Two Old Maids by Shakey Walter Horton (just over two minutes in).. though he uses the 2 hole draw for the first chord:
WOW,, whats with Jap. You are the MAN.. You are the Master of bending..I have been playing for 4 years, can only dream about playing a quarter as well as u..
hey Jase, good tuto. man, u got great tone and good intonation - the harp sounds like a fuller instrument
jason... just started looking at your postings... please number them sequentially so that I know how many postings you have made...also assist in navigating thru them...would allow me to find the first -last and rest in the middle... thank.... rockin rich
Love your playing man.. iv been playing 30 years.. Mainly Sonny Terry.. I just brought my first Seydel noble.. and its beautifully made.. in the key of A.
Still learning.. it i need to brush up on my scales. I play by ear. But thanks man.. I appreciate your teachings.
My pleasure Christopher! Thank you so much for watching and writing!
I love how you take the time to give 9 minute tutorials on many different harmonica methods man. It really helps so much. Thanks a ton
Every time someone writes something like this, more discussion ensues, and my ratings and placement and subsequent partner pay ( From Google adsense ) increases. So keep 'em coming .
that last thing you did, that was insane
Great lesson
holy crap man.. thank you soo much for dropping the science on us... your clips are amazing.. some are a little too quick for me, but they are all great! THANKS SOO MUCH!!!
bravo super merci de votre visite
Very very good!!!
Hey It's an AT&T tone called "Angry Cat" It rocks at first then it bothers those close to you.
1-hole blues,Beethoven and Hitchcock in under 10 mins...where else could you find this kinda stuff??
Top drawer entertainment,thanks J.
Kick ass lesson, Kick ass ringtone YOU'RE AWESOME!
Man, I love your videos and your music. Thankyou for uploading. You are, without a doubt, at the pinnacle of contemporary harp imo.
Excellent video. This video helped me to improve my harmonica skills. Thank you.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Learning to do it yourself will improve your knoledge of the instrument as well as your playing. It takes practice just like playing but is well worth it I didn't buy a custom harmonica until two years ago and I have been playing for 18 years overblowing for ten. Check it out thanks for watching!
j
wow!! That sounds amazing!!
Awsome playing! You got any videos on how to do that vibrato with ur throat(like blowing a vibrato)?
wow this was great thanks for the lesson
Dude. Just went and bought Done with the Devil off iTunes - please come to Australia!
initially I used a piano or keyboard, i only got to use the bendometer once but I like that thing, most the time now I can hear it myself, when I don't my band or my friends do. I'm not doing a youtube on harp repair,mods,maintenance until I get a vid camera (Not on my Computer) and some one to help me film, it would be hard to see all the little moves you do and i don't want people ruining their harps cause they can't really see/understand how I emboss,arc, gap etc.
Jason you just knocked me off my perch! I will have to get more accurate to even get near what you showed on this clip.Thanks so much for your insights into my instrument.It will take me another eon but I will keep up the practice!!
Guys like you and Adam Gussow open new worlds for me. You are such important influences in my playing. I wish I could reciprocate in kind.
Hours not years! You'll get it! wanting it is everything! bThats what most are missing! Keep at it !
Thanks for the lessons dude! Love you and your music
In the description Box of EVERY video is the harp key....Sorry you missed it.
J
Totally it does! It's still the toughest thing for me most the time. Hey, also check My Three Hole Draw Boogie shuffle thing...Thanks!
J
Hi... and Thanks...from Argentina
Great video, impressive stuff, Especially at the end with the playing on hole 3.
Btw do we ever get a lesson on overblows, Im not really there yet skill-wise, but it would be interessting to see how you make them.
Bend-o-meter gotta check that out 8-)
Hey Jason Big fan i was wondering if you could explain how to a vibrato i cant seem to get a good one thanks
Thank you!
Thanks Twin!!
What a brilliant harmonica player
Yeah! not all the time but many many do! mOst the old blues guys!
Hello Jason!
Thanks for another great lesson! It helps me a lot to get those bends that I couldn't get before.
Just a question. I can't overblow the notes.Actually I don't know how to do it and in what wholes could I do it.
Thanks a lot Jason, keep rokin'!!!
If you want to hear something bizarre and different, try singing into it while you play. When you modulate the blows and draws before they enter the harp it is absolutely wicked. Been doing it since late 70's. Harmonica Framptone?
Anyway, to prove the connexion between the two techniques, Jason himself said in his second part lesson on overblow/overdraw that "somehow it's easier to get the overdraws and overblows if you know what notes are missing". That's exactly what makes me get my first overblow, besides technical randomness. I've been almost dreaming of getting that minor third on the second octave. It nearly obsessed me. And one day, I heard the note, spent 4 hours repeating it until 6am to be sure I'll remember XD
amazing!
YO! awesome stuff, I would do that in the subway if I could!
jason, he more i watch your videos, the more I realize how much I need to learn more about playing the harmonica.....too bad they don't offer formal lessons in harmonica here where I come from, i'm just stuck with trying to learn from internet lessons like the one's you give..... anyway, i hope I could learn to play like you someday
HI guys. I'm only starting to bend notes on a harmonica and I'm getting a problem that I haven't heard discussed. For all the world it sound like the harmonica is going into feedback. (I'm not playing through an amp by the way) I take it a reed is resinating at a very high frequency how do i stop that? Any suggestions.
Love the ring tone by the way very funny.
Yes!!! No problems there.
Great stuff as always. :)
You rock Jason.
Phone too. Regards
definitely a fan!
This is what I needed so I can beast up the Major pentatonic scale
well done bro
Thanks C! I have to start working harder with guys like you out there! Thanks so much for the kind words and happy turkey fday!
J
Unfortunatly the videos where i just "play it" don't get any hits...Wheres yours?
Oops,I thought that was the theme tune to "Alfred Hitchcock presents" that you segued into after the Fur Elise/Beethoven bit at about 5.09 ,realise it wasn't now, but its buggin me .I sure I have heard that line before??
well I'm not the best guys for a tuning lesson, I tune them a hair sharp by playing octaves and scraping the higher read with a file until the octaves are out of tune than I go back and fix the lower note. another way is to tune the 2 draw sharp till it matches the 3 blow then tune all the other notes off that until the whole harp is sharp 441,442,443 I don't know just sharp works for me
I downloaded the bendometer but I can't use it because I had to sucrube or somthing . :(
anyway very good notes and the bending note are amazing.
Your amazing man!
Thanks so much you too!
Thank you Big Fish!
Thanks komron...glad it helped!
j
So my 4 yr old daughter comes home with a c harmonica from school... and I decide to mess with it ( been a working pro drummer/recording engineer for years) and I start blowing it... next thing i know i'm playinb some silly licks. So I go searching on youtube and i discover this killer series from jason... THANKS. I'm 46 yrs old, and more juiced about learning an instrument than I've been since i was 6. Do you have a legit DVD instructional series? If not... you should make one...
Thanks again Ronnie...i learned it by watching you ...OK I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!
was i the only one that thought he was a girl till he took his hands off the harmonica???
anyways please dont be offended by this because your simply one of the best benders ive heard/seen on youtube and in person.
lmaooo i love this guy..aye yooo jasooon!! u go yourself a new fan..where can ibuy your music?
and im learning the harmonica...stevie wonder made me want to learn ..and i finally bought one.
keep the music and lessons comming j
Blow bends are on holes 1 to 6 (5 draw just a little bit). Blow bends are on holes 7 to 10 (7 does not bend). Overblows are mostly used on holes 4 to 6. As for draw bends: no it's not just drawing. It's drawing and at the same time changing the airflow by altering the position of your tongue. This way you can get multiple notes on one draw hole. That's quite easy on an A harp. Getting the notes perfectly in tune on the other hand requires a lot of practice. Not to mention overblows on low harps.
you are great!!!
Man...Thank you so much...what do you play?
Hey Jason...Does your harp have to be any specific make and model? What do you use? Should it be well warmed up and whats the best way to do this? I'm using a Hohner blues harp in A, its the wooden sort..is this ok for this lesson?
It is good to have more than one key if not all 12 if your serious. And a Promaster is a GREAT harmonica!
J
hi jason! being a big fan of urs i seek nobody bt u help on Overblow! I have a Hohner special20 (key G). Though, its excellent for bending bt i've never been able to overblow a single note despite trying so many techniques!!! is it that special 20 is too hard for overblowing? cn u also give some tips for learning to overblow! thnks!