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INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
This page links to my ever-growing range of in-depth Instructional Videos. Click the text below the Trailer video to go to the area you're interested in!
Lessons for Play Irish Music on the Blues Harp (teaching book)
This series of teaching videos has been created to accompany and augment the teaching book
Play Irish Music on the Blues Harp.
Now you can actually see Brendan demonstrating and explaining crucial techniques like tongue triplets, jaw flick triplets, grace notes etc.
Lesson List
Introduction & Preamble
Lesson 1 - Getting clean blow and draw notes and simple scales
Lesson 2 - Adjacent blow and draw notes, Jaw-shifting technique, How to play precisely and cleanly
Lesson 3 - Blow and draw arpeggios, Descending thirds
Lesson 4 - Playing the traditional tune 'Maids of Mitchelstown', Adding decoration to your playing, Tongue triplets, Jaw-flicks, Grace Notes
BONUS VIDEO: TWO TIMING-FEELS for IRISH REELS: SWING FEEL and OFF-BEAT
These optional but recommended videos will accelerate and enhance your learning of the techniques and tunes in the book.
(Approx. 1.3gb)
£15