Mel Bay Chromatic Harmonica Solos
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786603275 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 76 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Phil Duncan earned his Masters of Music Education degree in 1973 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He also has 8 published instructional videos and is a recording artist with 15 albums to his credit. This work was the result of ten years of research and two years of diligent writing. With a versatile educator's experience ranging from elementary school through university levels, Phil served for many years as the vocal and general music teacher at Lakeview Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri. Phil's career as an author for Mel Bay Publications began in 1979 with the publication of The Deluxe Harmonica Method. His thesis focused on the study of methods for teaching the beginning student of any musica
He also has 8 published instructional videos and is a recording artist with 15 albums to his credit. Missouri Middle Schools's Journal published his article on teaching harmonica playing in the middle school. He is also active in community education, and has advised teachers in techniques to better instruct their students in the art of playing the harmonica. Mel
Selected songs are recorded. CD contains only 28 of the 57 songs that are in the book.. All songs on the CD are split-track for play-along. Either the 12 or 16 hole chromatic harmonica may be used. A wonderful collection of favorite folk and classic themes are artistically arranged for chromatic harmonica solo in this book/CD package. Some tunes are with piano and some are full orchestrations. Each songs is labeled with what harmonica was used
Mel Bay Chromatic Harmonica Solos Tacitus Bond The CD that was provided to help learn the tunes was so bad that all you could hear was the accompiament and not the harmonica. The music in the book was ok. However some of the tunes would be very hard to play.I could not recomend this book.. A varied selection of musical pieces. hobby fan I've played chromatic harmonica by ear for decades and thought this book would help me to learn to play the sharps and flats on my chromatic harmonicas. But I conclude that I can learn to play the sharps and flats by ear, and I can do so in the key I choose. For example, the book writes Greensleeves in the key of E minor. I like to play it in the key of A minor, the way it is written on other sheet music that I have. That is also the key I, a tenor, can sing Greensleeves . So, So The selection of songs tries to "cover the waterfront". There are too many songs which do not match my music interests. I have no interest in "Hungarian Rhapsody No.2" or "Menuet No. 2". I like harmonica "campfire solos". Separate solo books targeting particular categories of interest would be better.I ordered the book because it was advertised on the web page for the chromatic harmonica I bought (from Amazon) in the same time frame. The harmonica is 5-star, but not the s