![]() Now you have the actual track speed, play along with a metronome set to 2/3 this rate. This gives the tempo in beats per minute. ![]() Divide the stopwatch time by 64, then multiply by 60. Get a calculator (your mobile phone again). If you can count bars, then get a stopwatch (your mobile phone probably has one) and time 16 bars from the track you’ve learnt. Once learnt, a new track must get it up to speed. When learning a tune I listen to the first 3 seconds, slowed down, over and over until I have it. If you can afford it, the investment is worthwhile. Pay $50 and the program will play entire tracks. The Amazing Slow Downer will play the first 1/3 of each track. Use the program to open the first mp3 from your folder, pull the “Speed” slider back to 66% and play your track, Sounds exactly like the original, except 2/3 the speed. Go to and install the “Amazing Slow Downer”. Best learnt at a slower speed, another program will help with this. Now you have a folder with mp3s for ten new tunes. ![]() Open YouTube, then search on “How to use Audacity to record audio” for instructions on installing Audacity and using it to capture the audio from your chosen YouTubes. The audio from these YouTube videos needs to be in your mp3 folder. Learn how to use the YouTube “Add to Favorites” feature, gather videos with tunes for your new repertoire. Get a friend to help if need be.Īs mentioned, YouTube is an immense music resource. Not sure how to do this? Find where iTunes keeps music files and copy the ones you want into your new folder. Put the tracks you plan to learn in this folder. Now make a computer folder called New Tunes, another inside it called mp3s. Certainly aim for new tunes/solos which stretch you, but stay within your technical abilities. Aim for ten new tunes/solos.ĭoes your list match your capabilities? If Whammer Jammer is at the top and you’re still struggling to bend the 2 hole draw note, then another cull is needed. If possible, pick a genre and stick with it. Start a new list, add every tune or solo which catches your ear.įast forward to where you have a list of new tunes/solos to learn. Search online (YouTube is a wonderful resource). Dig through your music collection, impose on your friends. You’ve probably got Excel on your computer, it is worth spending a day learning how to drive it (assuming you have a computer…). Now make two lists, tunes/solos you already know, and ones you’d like to learn. Spend an evening with these guys, you may find new directions. If stuck for ideas, then Google harmonica and PT Gazell, Brendan Power, Kim Wilson, Mark Graham. ![]() Find your strength and/or, a genre you’d like to explore. To achieve it however you need repertoire, this is how to get it.įirst, what do you currently play? Blues, pop standards, jazz tunes, traditional fiddle tunes. The afternoon vanishes in a haze of notes.Ī dream? Perhaps not. A crowd soon gathers, someone brings you a beer. Stuck to your case is laminated sheet with your repertoire, your bag has a small bound folder with chord charts. ![]() He’s done for the day, wants to relax and play with the locals. Sitting opposite is a famous guitar player, whose set you saw earlier. You’re at a festival with your harmonica case open. ![]()
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