Learn To Play Blues Harmonica with Steve Guyger

My good buddy, Steve Guyger, has recently completed an instructional DVD for Hal Leonard & Co. Entitled “Blues Harmonica“, the DVD will hit the streets July 27th, 2010. If you’re a harp player, or as aspiring harp player, you’ll want to grab a copy of this one!

Steve is one of the top blues harmonica players in the world today and he shares many tips and tricks on this new DVD. Accompanied by Billy Flynn, an outstanding Chicago guitar player, the performances alone are worth the price of admission, but there’s much more.

Steve covers harmonica history, harmonica basics, harmonica techniques, sound and tone, playing chords, blues progressions, using positions and keys, playing in a band and more. The DVD includes guitar backing tracks so you can practice what you learn and try to match the technique and tone of this monster player.

As soon as I get my hands on a copy, I’ll be doing a complete review of the DVD, so stay tuned. It’s available for pre-order, so if you can’t wait, reserve your copy now by clicking the image above.

Roots, Rock ‘n Blues

Ben Lacy – Unique Guitar Stylist

I dig finding out about musicians who when you watch them play make you stare in slack-jawed amazement. I can get around pretty well on several axes, but watching people like Ben Lacy just reinforces what I learned a long time ago…some people are just on a whole ‘nother level that the rest of us can only watch and appreciate.

Check out this video on the Truefire web site of Ben Lacy doing his version of the ZZ Top tune “Cheap Sunglasses”:

http://truefire.com/tftv/index.html?channel=blacy&videofile=gptv/benlacy/gpcheapsunglasses

If you dig that, you’ll also enjoy this collection of Ben Lacy videos:

http://rootsrocknblues.us/videos/benlacy/

Enjoy!

Roots, Rock ‘n Blues