BAJAN PIED PIPER * How to play Pan Flute – 3/3

Learn how to play a pan flute. MUSIC 106! Don’t just pick up your instrument and play every song the same old way! Give each song its own special touch. Give your music life and feeling. PLAY FROM YOUR HEART… play with PIZZAZZ!. (Wish I could underline that!) Let your song express emotion, joy, excitement, sorrow, sentiment, ardor, pain, tenderness, warmth, passion, sensuality, happiness… according to its kind and the way you wish it to be received … AND LET YOUR “BODY LANGUAGE” MIRROR YOUR PASSION… Remember: every song has its own essence, message, persona. You must get in synch with it and express it with FEELING! Please see www.youtube.com Here I play – With These Hands – and demonstrate many techniques you can use to make your playing sparkle, such as vibrato, bending, slurred notes, glissando, semi-tones … I also express some personal sentiments which I hope will resonate cheerfully with you 🙂 ! ! ! forward this video to your friends! it may inspire them! (at the very least they’ll have a good laugh!) By the way I got my first pan flute somewhere around March /09 and the first video I posted on YouTube was in May /09 so I had only been playing it for about 3 months. I mention this to say the PF is not at all a difficult instrument to learn to play. See www.youtube.com Since then Ive posted several other videos look for them and observe the various techniques I use to give expression to the songs. Of course I am by no means a virtuoso! But I have been

BEGINNER'S HARMONICA – Lesson 2 – BAJAN PIEDPIPER

Learn to play harmonica. MUSIC 097 OK ~ BENDING NOTES ~ What makes a note bend? Normally, when you play a note on your harp, the air passes over the reed more or less parallel with it. If you cause the air to pass over the reed at an angle … it makes the reed vibrate at a different rate, so the note changes its pitch and we say the note has “bent.” IT’S BY CHANGING THE SHAPE OF THE CAVERN OF YOUR MOUTH THAT THE AIR IS DEFLECTED AND THIS AFFECTS THE TONE AND PITCH OF THE REED. Some trivia ~ when you bend a note on a harmonica, the note flattens . . . when you bend a note on a stringed instrument, ie a guitar, the note sharpens. ! Now isn’t this great information? ! ! ! There are several ‘bending’ methods in addition to what’s on the video, here are two others ~ 1) Place your harp in your lips at hole 1 … inhale while DRAWING FROM YOUR ABDOMEN … drop your jaw. The note will bend. Try it on holes 2, 3 and 4. (These are the holes that are the easiest to bend.) See it demonstrated here – this is an EXCELLENT presentation – www.youtube.com 2) This method is a bit more advanced. ~ Choose one of the holes 1 to 4 … USING THE MUSCLES DEEP IN YOUR THROAT/NECK draw the air through the reed. ie DRAW FROM YOUR THROAT. Your tongue goes back a bit and your jaw drops a little … it’s dinky to explain, however by experimenting you’ll soon get it. See it demonstrated by Adam Gussow on this video – watch his throat closely and you’ll understand. www.wonderhowto.com Bending notes

Beginners Blues Harmonica Lesson 1 – www.blowtheblues.com

Brought to you by Lee Edwards and www.blowtheblues.com The first lesson from the downloadable complete beginners blues harmonica course available from the website. Topics covered Choosing a harmonica, how the harmonica works, tone colour.

Beginner Blues Harmonica Lesson 3 Part 5 – www.blowtheblues.com

Brought to you by Lee Edwards and www.blowtheblues.com The third lesson from the downloadable complete beginners blues harmonica course available from the website. Topics covered Harp tablature, playing single notes, the major scale, intervals/scale degrees, articulation, legato/staccato, 1st position melodies.

HOW TO PLAY BLUES HARMONICA – Lesson# 6 – BAJAN PIEDPIPER

Learn to play harmonica. MUSIC 102 Put this video on pause and read these side-bar notes first! The way most music is played when you perform it is – you play the song (the melody) or perhaps you sing it – or vice versa – then you improvise – then you close off in whatever way you wish – by playing the melody or singing it again .. or some variation of this formula. It’s when it’s time to improvise that befuddles newbies. This need not be! There is a practical way to go about composing a song and improvising. It’s known as “call & response.” ‘Call and response’ – refers to an exchange of phrases. The phrase may be 2 bars long, – or 4, – or 8. It’s a structure that’s rooted in the folk traditions of choral singing of many peoples – and was used by African slaves and their descendants in the USA, when it became the backbone prescription for the blues. It’s heard in almost every 12 bar blues song! And you hear it, if you listen, in much rock and roll, gospel, jazz , etc.. Let’s examine how the 12-bar blues is structured and see how the call & response principle is employed – The 12 bar blues consists of THREE PHRASES. Each PHRASE is four bars long. The first phrase makes a statement {makes a call} ~ The second phrase {is a response} ~ it repeats the statement exactly (or with a variation) ~ The third phrase resolves or completes the statement. HOW TO GO ABOUT COMPOSING A SONG. One way is to compose the lyrics and then put a melody to it. Because of space constraints I’ll

Beginner Blues Harmonica Lesson 2 Part 2 – www.blowtheblues.com

Brought to you by Lee Edwards and www.blowtheblues.com The second lesson from the downloadable complete beginners blues harmonica course available from the website. Topics covered Holding the harmonica, dynamics, embouchure (pucker), chords, simple rhythm, advice on practice.

Beginner Blues Harmonica Lesson 3 Part 4 – www.blowtheblues.com

Brought to you by Lee Edwards and www.blowtheblues.com The third lesson from the downloadable complete beginners blues harmonica course available from the website. Topics covered Harp tablature, playing single notes, the major scale, intervals/scale degrees, articulation, legato/staccato, 1st position melodies.

Beginner Blues Harmonica Lesson 3 Part 3 – www.blowtheblues.com

Brought to you by Lee Edwards and www.blowtheblues.com The third lesson from the downloadable complete beginners blues harmonica course available from the website. Topics covered Harp tablature, playing single notes, the major scale, intervals/scale degrees, articulation, legato/staccato, 1st position melodies.