Class Subjects
Browse all harmonica classes by topic and level
All of these classes are available to stream inside of the membership, and include class notes.
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- 1st position blues (advanced intermediate)
- 3rd position bass lines (advanced intermediate)
- 3rd position blues licks: speed, fluidity (advanced intermediate)
- 5th position blues harp (intermediate)
- 8 bar blues with Adam Gussow (intermediate)
- 12 bar blues structure (beginner, beginner intermediate)
- 12 bar blues Improvisation Training (intermediate)
- Amazing Grace (beginner, intermediate)
- Amplified Blues Harp (all levels)
- Auld Lang Syne: 12th position (advanced intermediate)
- Annie Raines guest artist class
- Back Porch Blues Harp (advanced intermediate)
- Backing tracks practice (all levels)
- Blues Bass lines in 2nd position, (beginner intermediate)
- Beginner blues harmonica course (class #1)
- Beginner blues harmonica course (class #2)
- Beginner blues harmonica course (class #3)
- Beginner blues harmonica course (class #4)
- Bend heavy blues riffs (advanced intermediate)
- Bending Clinic: (beginner intermediate, intermediate)
- Big Walter 1st position (intermediate)
- Big Walter “Walking By Myself” (intermediate)
- Billy Boy Arnold songs (intermediate)
- Blending technique for musical texture (beginner intermediate)
- Blow bending & Overblowing (advanced)
- Blues Jargon Tommy Harkenrider (all levels)
- Blues Riffs in Motion (advanced intermediate)
- Bluesier blues licks (intermediate)
- Bluesy triplet licks (intermediate)
- Boogie Chillin (advanced intermediate)
- Breaking down solos with Rodrigo Eberienos (all level)
- Breath Rhythms with Hank Shreve & Shane Sager (all levels)
- Buddy Greene guest artist (all levels)
- Christo Redemptor, 3rd position (intermediate, advanced intermediate)
- Christmas songs with Joe Filisko (all levels)
- Chugs Trains & back porch blues harp (beginner intermediate, intermediate)
- Classic Little Walter Riffs (intermediate, advanced intermediate)
- Classic Rock Harmonica (beginner, beginner intermediate)
- Composing blues harmonica instrumentals (intermediate)
- Country Blues Harp Class with Nic C. and Bob Pellegrino (all levels)
- Developing Licks (beginner intermediate)
- Developing Speed (intermediate)
- Developing Fluidity (intermediate)
- Discovering new 2nd position licks & phrasing (intermediate)
- Ear Training (beginner intermediate)
- Ear Training pt 2 technique (all levels)
- Emotion through the harp (all levels)
- Essential Blues Harp Technique (beginner intermediate, intermediate)
- Essential Blues Harp Language (intermediate)
- Every note counts with Nic Clark (beginner intermediate)
- Folsom Prison Blues with Todd Parrott (beginner intermediate)
- Front Porch Blues Harp pt 1 (beginner intermediate)
- Front Porch Blues Harp pt 2 (intermediate)
- Funk Harp with Hank Shreve & Ronnie (intermediate)
- Gary Primich song studies (intermediate)
- Gary Primich Riffs (intermediate)
- Gary Primich “School of Hard Knocks” (intermediate)
- GBHS: Beyond Tongue Blocking 101 w/ James Conway (advanced)
- GBHS: 12: Carlos del Junco, Adam G, Hank S, Ronnie (all levels)
- GBHS: Billy Branch (all levels)
- GBHS: Incorporating Regional Influences: Greg Izor, Gerry Hundt, Ronnie (all levels)
- GBHS Filip Jers, Black Orpheus (advanced intermediate)
- GBHS: John Nemeth (all levels)
- GBHS: Mickey Raphael (all levels)
- GBHS: Charlie Musselwhite (all levels)
- GBHS: Tone Seminar: Hank S., Nic C., Ronnie S.(all levels)
- GBHS: Paul Lamb (all levels)
- GBHS: Peter Madcat Ruth (all levels, intermediate)
- GBHS: Howard Levy (all levels, advanced)
- GBHS: Louisiana Harmonica styles: Hank Shreve, Joe Filisko, Grant Dermody (intermediate)
- GBHS: Accompaniment playing w/ Nic C. and Ronnie S. (beginner intermediate)
- GBHS: Jason Ricci & Ronnie Shellist (beginner intermediate)
- George Smith: 3rd position (intermediate)
- Got My Mojo Working-1 song 3 masters. Nic Clark, Ronnie (intermediate)
- Groove Harp (beginner intermediate)
- Gussow & Shellist: Woodshedding our influences (all levels)
- Guy Forsyth: Leading a band (all levels)
- Harmonica Gear (all levels)
- Harp Attack CD (intermediate)
- Horn Lines pt 1 (intermediate)
- Horn Lines pt 2 (intermediate)
- Howlin’ Wolf (beginner intermediate)
- Hybrid Approach: tongue blocking and puckering
- Iconic Blues Hooks
- Improvisation Angles with Ronnie Shellist & Grant Dermody (beginner intermediate)
- Intro. To 3rd position blues chromatic (beginner, beginner intermediate)
- IV & V chord riffs (beginner intermediate)
- Jam session, ear training class
- James Cotton slow blues (intermediate)
- Jamin’ Scale Practice (beginner intermediate and intermediate)
- Jerry McCain “Steady” (intermediate)
- Jim Liban’s “All Corned Up” (advanced intermediate)
- Jimmy Reed (intermediate)
- Junior Wells “Hoodoo Man Blues” (intermediate)
- Killer blues harmonica instrumentals: Ronnie & Nic Clark (intermediate)
- Killer William Clarke riffs (intermediate)
- Kim Wilson Introductions (intermediate)
- Kim Wilson “Tried to Ruin Me” 1st position (advanced intermediate)
- Learn to sing the blues w/ Andrew Duncanson (all levels)
- Learn to sing the blues pt 2 w/ Andrew Duncanson (all levels)
- Lessons from the journey: Ronnie Shellist & Adam Gussow (all levels)
- Little Walter “Key to the Highway” (intermediate)
- Little Walter “Blue Midnight” (intermediate)
- Little Walter “Blues with a Feeling” (beg. Intermediate and beyond)
- Little Walter “Can’t Hold Out Much Longer” (intermediate)
- Little Walter “It’s too Late Brother” (intermediate)
- “Long Distance Call” Little Walter, accompaniment (advanced intermediate)
- Looping blues licks (intermediate)
- Mastering Breath Control (beginner, intermediate)
- Nerves & Anxiety of improvisation with Shane Sager (beginner, all levels)
- Techniques clinic: vibrato, hand tech., warbles, dirty notes, (intermediate)
- Octave Heavy blues licks (intermediate)
- “On the Road Again” Mickey Raphael (intermediate)
- One harmonica-6 positions with Nic Clark (advanced)
- Pattern Recognition (intermediate)
- Paul Butterfield “Born In Chicago” (advanced intermediate)
- Paul Butterfield with Rob Paparozzi-approaches, ideas and more
- Paul Delay “Fourteen Dollars in the Bank” (advanced intermediate)
- Position Playing (intermediate)
- Power licks (2nd & 3rd position)
- Power Practice Sessions: ideas for mini practice sessions (all levels)
- Practice class: basslines, patterns, bending (intermediate)
- Practice class: hand technique, octaves, ear-training
- Productive practice sessions (all levels)
- RJ Mischo guest artist (all levels)
- Ronnie’s Riffs (intermediate)
- Selecting the best position (intermediate)
- Slide Guitar Riffs (intermediate)
- Slim Harpo “Rainin In My Heart”, “King Bee” (advanced beginner, intermediate)
- Slim Harpo pt 2 (advanced beginner, intermediate)
- Slow blues improvisation (intermediate)
- Slow Motion Blues Riffs (intermediate)
- Snooky Pryor (advanced beginner, intermediate)
- Social jam, ear training class (all levels)
- Sonny Boy Williamson I with Joe Filisko (intermediate)
- Sonny Boy Williamson II Classic Riffs (intermediate)
- Sonny Boy “You Killin Me”, 1st position (intermediate)
- Sonny Boy Williamson II & Kim Wilson: “Nine Below Zero” (intermediate)
- Sounds & Secrets of Sonny Terry with Joe Filisko (intermediate)
- Super Harps CD pt 1(intermediate)
- Super Harps CD pt 2 (advanced intermediate)
- Taj Mahal (intermediate)
- Technique Practice & Exercises (beginner intermediate)
- Tongue Blocking (beginner intermediate)
- Turnarounds & V chord ideas (intermediate)
- Upper Register Playing (intermediate)
- Vibrato heavy blues licks (intermediate)
- Visualizing Techniques (all levels)
- What a Wonderful World (beginner intermediate)
- William Clarke “Trying to Stretch My Money (intermediate)
- William Clarke “Blues is Killin’ Me” (intermediate)
- William Clarke-Outro licks (intermediate)
- “Work Song” Butterfield vs Clarke (advanced intermediate)