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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:37:16 -0400
From: "glen~lbany.net"
Subject: Books with chromatic harp content

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>
> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 10:09:55 -0700
> From: Charles Bassi
> Subject: Re:learing to play a chrom
>
> probably the best book i've seen that includes chromatic stuff is "Jazz
> Harp" by Richard Hunter -
> chromatic is such a different ball game - there's a lot more potential
> for disaster than on a diatonic -
> it depends on where you want to go with this - it's relatively easy to
> play 3rd position blues stuff on a chromatic ala Junior Wells - I
> believe David Harp has a book on this to get you started - but to get
> into pentatonic scales, jazz scales, and advanced theory, I'd go with
> Richard Hunter's book - for classical music I'd go with Chromatic
> Harmonica Method by Phil Duncan, for pop I'd go with Everything You
> Always Wanted to Know About the Chromatic Harmoica by Blackie Schackner
> - -
> also, I believe there's a web site devoted to chromatic but I really
> haven't checked it out - I believe other harp-l'ers will help answer
> this (?).
>
My forthcoming book Masters of Blues Harp will have the following
transcriptions of chromatic harp:

Blues Lights-Little Walter
Blues in the Dark-George Smith
Caravan-Gary Primich
Don't Go No Further-Mojo Buford

It should be out this summer. I will be taking online credit orders by that
time also.

Glenn Weiser
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/harppage.htm