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Learn to play 19 cool new Sonny Terry licks on harmonica now

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Brief Introduction

Transform your rhythm Sonny Terry style and play better with guitar, voice, and band setups. Learn amazing skills here

Description

This course will enable you to develop your Sonny Terry style of playing. And it's really FUN!

Studying Sonny is a big challenge and this will be a great start if you want to learn more about his style, or will further increase your skills if you have tried this before.

Sonny was the master of rhythmic chugging and since these are two mainstays of the harmonica you will definitely benefit from this course and this type of study.

To create these riffs I studied the following original Sonny Terry recordings - Fox Chase, Airplane Blues, Raincrow Bill, Crow Jane, and Mean Old Frisco. So if you listen to those tracks you will hear many of the ideas in this course.

What I have done for you is taken Sonny's original recordings and modified them to make it simpler to play and to write down, notate and tab out for you.

These are not exact copies - just 'inspired by' Sonny's playing. I have quantised his playing to help you learn and made backing tracks that are more contemporary so they sound better to your ears.

Each riff is explained by me and then you get it at three different speeds and also with written notation and harmonica tablature.

The material brought to life in this course comes from a book I co-wrote with Paul Lennon called Sonny Terry 3 and it is available from HarmonicaWorld if you want a copy. You don't need it for this course but you might want to extend your learning.

The first half of this course is on a C harp and the second half uses an A and a G harp.

I recommend using Transcribe! from SeventhString if you want to change the key (and/or speed) of an mp3 if you do not have an A or G harp. You can change the key of the backing track to make it work on your C harp.

Use your A harp on ST3 63 Playalong in E-Johnny in Winter or use a C harp and raise the pitch +3# (half steps/semitones)

Use your G harp on ST3 62 Playalong in D-Mindlessly Simple or use a C harp and raise the pitch +5# (half steps/semitones)