Brendan Power

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