Play Sonny Terry style on Harmonica and dazzle your friends!

Play Sonny Terry style on Harmonica and dazzle your friends!, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.95, with 51 lectures, based on 208 reviews, and has 3135 subscribers.

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Summary

Title: Play Sonny Terry style on Harmonica and dazzle your friends!

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.95

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $199.99

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What You Will Learn

Play blues harp like Sonny Terry

Who Should Attend

This harmonica course is for people who would like to learn about the classic country blues style of Sonny Terry

Target Audiences

This harmonica course is for people who would like to learn about the classic country blues style of Sonny Terry

If you ever wanted to learn to play the harmonica like Sonny Terry this new course is for you! Please enjoy the course and give it a review.

This course is all about learning to play in the style of Sonny Terry.

Many thanks to Wayne T. Helfrich for kind permission to use his pictures of Sonny Terry.

Each riff is written out for you with standard harmonica tab, onomatopoeic words, and standard western music notation.

You will find an mp3 included which has each riff played by me at full speed, half speed, and medium-speed to help you learn how to play it better.

If you do a couple of riffs a day this course will take a month to complete – or go for bust and do it in a weekend!

We start with learning 19 riffs that I wrote in Sonny’s style as a preparation for you.

When you’ve done those follow through the sections and you may notice the challenge increases a little. Take it slowly and you will progress without too much pain!

This course is based on a book I wrote with Paul Lennon. I was recently teaching the whole book to a student in South Korea and enjoyed revisiting the original material we wrote and recorded in 2009 so much that I decided to make a Udemy course from it.

The whole book (30 pages) and audio (65 mp3 tracks) is included in this groundbreaking course a page at a time. The whole book and CD is also available if you message me.

A lot of people want to play the blues harp so if that’s you come on in, you’re in the right place.

I will hold your hand all the way through the videos with my ‘infectious and humourous’ (people tell me) style of teaching. You will feel like I’m right with you in a one-to-one lesson showing exactly you how to do it, and encouraging to become confident and go it alone.

It’s designed to be fun, friendly, easy for anyone to learn – even non-musical people! It is designed to help you succeed and lead you on to the next in the series.

There are pdfs and mp3 downloads with many lectures so you can read the tablature and play along with the audio music written especially for learning harmonica.

Please be sure to visit the Questions area and Forum to interact with other students. It’s a great way to learn more and helps you apply what the course gives you.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and overview

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Which harmonica to buy?

Lecture 3: Wait, let's watch Sonny in action – it's essential to do this first please.

Chapter 2: Excersises to help you get into Sonny Terry's style without fear or pain.

Lecture 1: WHOLE BOOK AND ZIPFILE OF ALL THE AUDIO – Easy start, say 'choo choo choo'

Lecture 2: Work on tone and introducing the onomatopoeic 'Chaka'

Lecture 3: The only way I can describe this is 'chack-chackachack'

Lecture 4: Intriducing Triplets

Lecture 5: Learning how to expel air fast

Lecture 6: Introducing the 'Hand Pop'

Lecture 7: Exploring the hand pop in syncopated rhythms

Lecture 8: More experimenting with the hand pop in different rhythms

Chapter 3: Simple Riffs in the Sonny Terry style

Lecture 1: Default basic 'Mean old Frisco' Sonny Terry

Lecture 2: Alternative ways to play the last one

Lecture 3: 'Do chicha di chucka'

Lecture 4: Adding 'Chickachacka'

Lecture 5: Adding off beat syncopation

Chapter 4: Intro Riffs for Sonny Terry songs

Lecture 1: Very basic intro riff

Lecture 2: Alternative to 29 adding a small easy bend

Lecture 3: Adding decorations to the triplet

Lecture 4: Introducing the 'scoop'

Lecture 5: Putting a bend into a group of 4 fast notes

Chapter 5: Use your 'A' harmonica here

Lecture 1: Introducing the idea of 'chickowa-ha' – expelling air on the 'ha'

Lecture 2: More work on how to expel air fast in your playing

Lecture 3: How to play a sequence of bent note, straight note, chord

Chapter 6: Pick a bale of cotton

Lecture 1: Jump down turnaround

Lecture 2: Chorus 'Oh Lordy'

Lecture 3: Pushed notes

Lecture 4: Off-beat hand popping

Lecture 5: Syncopated rhythms

Chapter 7: 'A' harp needed for this section

Lecture 1: Basic groove

Lecture 2: Alternate way to play using 2 blow

Lecture 3: Starting to prepare for the rigours that are coming up next

Lecture 4: 5blow to 4draw transition

Lecture 5: 6 blow to 234 draw

Lecture 6: Final riff in this section utilising what we've just learnt

Chapter 8: Ending Riffs. 'G' harmonica needed here – nice and low!

Lecture 1: Fast ending with syncopation

Lecture 2: As 48 but with additions of singing and a top D

Lecture 3: Adding a long slow bend

Lecture 4: Single note classic Sonny Terry ending

Lecture 5: The most famous outro phrase

Lecture 6: Triplets and scooping

Lecture 7: Time to sing some more

Lecture 8: Fast challenging rhythm with off beat accents

Lecture 9: Call and response phrasing

Lecture 10: Upbeat and off beat

Lecture 11: 'Doodle-oodle' and 'Calling my Mama'

Lecture 12: Outro

Chapter 9: Backing tracks for you to practice what you've learnt

Lecture 1: 4 Backing tracks for you to play along with

Lecture 2: Special Bonus from the world famous Peter Madcat Ruth (with his permission)

Lecture 3: Chromatic note layout

Lecture 4: Extra Learning Resources

Instructors

Ben Hewlett
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4 stars: 37 votes
5 stars: 163 votes

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