I just bought a Lee Oskar because I wanted a natural minor scale and Special 20s don't have. You are absolutely right about everything in your review. Although Lee Oskar has: 1. round edges to be more comfy, 2. a nicer case 3. holes to hang it around your neck 4. written key label positions around the comb, the sound of it is somehow always the same regardless of how you play it. I dare to say it sounds kind of dead. I also noticed there are gaps when I look inside the comb which in Special 20 I didn't see any. So maybe the bending is harder in Lee Oskar for this reason. Too bad Hohner has Natural and Harmonic Minor Scales only in Marine Band and not in other Harmonicas like Marine Band Deluxe.
I want to play better. I can play simple melodies and such, but blues is some sort of barrier for me to figure out. Don't know why, I have not the musical fantasi
@@TomlinHarmonica luckily, I was only drinking my coffee and smoking my cigarette. I am too unexperienced to play in publice due to "ear police" and even more due to "ear police brutality" 😎
Can you please please make a video tutorial for Muddy Waters song “Too Young To Know” - I can’t find tabs anywhere and it’s my favorite song I would love to play along with it
Doing it by yourself is indeed the #1 thing that holds people back. This is especially true with people who are already musicians. I "taught myself" for a long time because I thought being a person with a music degree (and able to play many other instruments) indicated that I could handle the harp myself. Boy was I wrong! I took a lessons for a little less than a year from Winslow Yerxa. This was an inflection point on my playing, and in the two years that followed, my playing took a giant swing upward. Then I started weekly playing sessions working on Jazz pieces with a Sax player. Again, massive improvements in my playing. And I'll be starting some more lessons soon. The difference it makes is so large that I could even say that it is the single biggest thing you can do to accelerate your progress.
Tomlin, what harmonica should I buy to play On the Road Again by Willie Nelson, which is also in the key of E? Do I need a harp in E major or A major? Thanks
Hi can you suggest a small portable amp for playing 'clean', bot blues harmonica? I play in pub folk sessions and need a little extra volume. Thanks Pete
I would probably just plug into the PA system and if there isn't one then I would look at getting an "Acoustic guitar amplifier" Something by Roland would be good.
I like the Peavey Solo. It's small, about 1ftx1ft, 6" thick. Battery powered (8 "D" batts.), has 2 mic inputs; 1 low imp. and 1 high imp. 1/4 " jacks. No reverb or echo, tho. I like taking it to jams where there isn't a 120v plug. A bit heavy, tho. I use it with a Shure 520DX "green bullet" mic. Hope this helps.
In my opinion, the problem is not that I'm not surrounded by blues players. There are just too many in that field. My biggest problem as a harmonica player is that I'm not surrounded by more Gen X and younger country players who like the same music that I do. The older crowd always wanted me to change to please them by telling me that I have to tongue block all the time and I should give up trying to sound like Terry McMillan, my favorite harmonica player, and imitate Charlie McCoy and Little Walter instead. I have my friend, Todd Parrott, but I feel like I need more people that have similar harmonica interests like mine.
Thanks to your video I was able to play some single notes without making mistakes! Started my harmonica journey 3 days ago, and my current mentor did not really emphasize the details on "whistle" form technique. Thanks a bunch
Thank you for this. I have lots of entry level diatonic instruments in various keys. Never moved forward with it. I will someday but right now I'm about to start lessons for piano accordion. One member of the reed organ family at a time :)
Just started today. Went into the store ready to get a Hohner model but they didn't have them in stock so I got the Lee Oskar by Tombo. Similar in the price range. Started with your train chug and the 5 licks. At 58 and with a musical background the journey is about to begin.😊 I was actually able to do a bend today. Not everytime, but at least I figured it out.
After years of messing about with different harmonicas, I decided to save up and get a set of hohner meisterklasse diatonics and chromatic in C. Some don’t like the meisterklasse series, but I can say they have become my favorite among what hohner offers.
Everything you said In this video it’s so spot on it’s not even funny. except for, I have not taken the harmonica out of my hand since last December pretty much, like it’s a problem. I always have it in my hand. I’ve lost and or damaged three special 20s. Also the whole part of not knowing whether I’m doing good or not is driving me nuts and keeping me held back. I have been taking you course so mind paying the monthly fee wasn’t a problem. I just I don’t know where I fell off. I seem to jump around on there quite a bit too. I need to get my ass back on enrollment ASAP . thank you so much for what you do.
How have you not done any analysis of a Stevie Wonder solo yet? You're happy to review the legendarily worst harmonica player ever - how about the best?
What I've learned, and what is taught in most cases is that to get your second position AKA cross-harp, you go four steps, rather than five. Why is your teaching different?
It depends which way you are thinking about it. If you want to know what key you are playing in second position on any given harmonica you go five. If you want to know what harmonica to pick up to play in a particular key you go four.
