Hey Steve..greetings from India...we use chromatic harmonica for playing Indian music...mainly Indian folk and Bollywood...but jazz is different and this video was very helpful in learning some other music that we don't play usually...thank you and keep making more of these🙏👍
Excellent lesson Steve Luff! Very much appreciated! I'm an acoustic guitar player who has, over the years played harmonica with a brace on certain songs. I used to dabble at playing the "chromonica," but never stayed with it. I love the "chromonica" and despite being an older guy, I want to make another attempt at getting proficient with it. It's a little challenging, but I'm comfortable with it because of my experience playing the more commonly used diatonic harmonica. What I really need to do, aside from simply practicing a lot, is to concentrate on my "ear training" with the instrument. Your lesson here truly helps in knowing when to press in the slide. That is a MAJOR sticking point with me when playing. I want and need to get to the point to where my "ear" tells me when I need to press-in and/or sharpen a given note. Steve, it's about going back to the ---"whole step" versus "half step" thing is it not??? Thank you!!
Hi Steve. Thank you for your comment. Pleased you like the tutorial. Yes I think I rely on a combination of ear training & muscle memory a lot when employing the slide. I can recommend practicing the Chromatic Scale. That has really helped me with this instrument a lot as it helps build the relationship between muscle memory & ear training well. I do not tend to think of it in terms of half step or whole step much Steve but you can certainly make that comparison. I usually try to relate to my guitar playing in that I am thinking about which notes I would want to bend in my scales on the fret board. Hope that helps.
@@SteveLuff Excellent information Steve! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply! I truly appreciate it. I love your analogy about thinking in terms of when one executes their bends while playing guitar. I love relatable analogies and yours is awesome! Moving forward, while practicing I'm definitely going to keep that in mind. Thanks again Steve!
Steve, I left a comment a few minutes ago and forgot to mention the following: A few years before he died, I had the awesome pleasure of spending an evening with the late, great, "Toots Thielemans." It was an intimate dinner engagement with Toots, and a piano and guitar player. Those other players were incredible, but at the moment I'm forgetting their names.
@@SteveLuff Cool and yes Steve, it was amazing. Despite his advanced age, he was awesome. Between songs he charmed us with various stories about his life which of course included his love affair with the chromonica. P.S., the whole evening he had his guitar next to him on the stand, but he never played it. It was strictly the chromonica. A lot people aren't aware that he was also a very good guitar player. Thanks Steve!
And thinking in D dorian G mixolidian C ionian 2-5-1 in Cmaj is more dificult also than just C major or C blues scale C Eb F F# G Bb and the same for Amin and take Eb in A C D E G for passing note is using A blues scale ( minor pentatonic plus flat five ) . So using C maj and A minor should be lets say enough and simplest . Its not easy to do the easier I ve been thinking a lot about this subject , your lesson helped me thanks
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Antonio - yes I often find it gets overwhelming sometimes thinking about the theory. When I get really stuck I tend to work out what scales or set of notes I can play over each individual chord.
This is the question i know perfectly C maj and A min scales but if you say 2-5-1 in Amin y will think in Bmin7b5 E7 A min7 harmonic minor and then i can't play nothing and can't improvise . Why should it be this way .? Where is the secret ?
Hey steve I want to say thank you . About your tutorial . Which is great. In the future . I would like to take classes by face... that is possible.? Well let me know . Thanks a lot for everything.
Hi Sergio. Thank you for your comment. Really pleased you like the tutorial. I am all set up to teach Skype lessons if you would like to arrange some that would be wonderful! This is a link to the page on my website all about Skype: guitarbeginners-stafford.com/skype-lessons/
@@sergiosarmiento2370 Hi Sergio that is wonderful thank you. I only teach 1:1 Skype classes. If would kindly email me on stephenjohnfrancisluff@hotmail.co.uk then I can email you back with my availability and how much I charge. Many Thanks, Steve
