Playing Quietly

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
  • Although blues harmonica is usually thought of as a loud, raucous instrument, every player should know how to dial the volume back while keeping the soulfulness high. With Adam Gussow of Modern Blues Harmonica.
    Here's that Very Modern Blues Harmonica lesson in mention in the video. Gussow swallows the bot and spits it back!
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    If you're interested in learning how to play blues harmonica, please visit Gussow's website, Modern Blues Harmonica.
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Комментарии • 64

  • @ikust007
    @ikust007 22 дня назад +23

    We all missed you.

  • @LiquidPaper4273
    @LiquidPaper4273 22 дня назад +11

    Thank you so much for your legendary videos Mr. Gussow

  • @ChiTherapie
    @ChiTherapie День назад

    Hi Adam, i started to play the harmonica a week ago. Found you on you tube, sitting in a car teaching ha ha. And now trough my vpn watching Satan & Adam. I must say : you are a special person. Love your personality. Thank you for being who you are. Your my inspiration to learn how to play at the age of 62. Love it. Dear greetings from me in Holland

  • @luisdesantis6035
    @luisdesantis6035 3 дня назад

    I have played quietly few times, at hotels, at the doctor’s office, car wash, repair shop, etc. It can be very satisfying and I often come up with a new riff :)

  • @CARTCURT915
    @CARTCURT915 12 дней назад

    Hello Mr. Gussow, I want u to know that u inspire people even from Turkey, I am one of them, thank you.

  • @SwampCityRadio1974
    @SwampCityRadio1974 22 дня назад +5

    Was hanging out with the front porch blues video with B flat harmonica in hand and was thinking about how to reproduce the nuance and subtlety in Mr. Gussow's playing and chanced on this fresh upload. Fantastic!

  • @heiko6983
    @heiko6983 15 дней назад

    Thank You Adam. It feels so good to listen to You. Have a great trip!

  • @mjjjf61
    @mjjjf61 7 дней назад

    Adam I saw you at Jamey's last night. You were absolutely amazing! I am proud to say I saw a Harmonica Legend. TREMENDOUS
    Thanks for the photo
    Michael Fiscaro

  • @ThomasOconnor-r6n
    @ThomasOconnor-r6n 2 дня назад

    Super stuff I’ve been trying to play for years you simplify it to lay man terms pal I love it well done from an elder lemon 💯👍☘️🇮🇪❤️

  • @BOWELLSAYS
    @BOWELLSAYS 18 дней назад

    Outstanding.6 months into playing harmonica. AI has no chance. You need soul to play harmonica which you clearly have💪

  • @pedropacheco7489
    @pedropacheco7489 19 дней назад

    Nice video Adam. Would like to see some more new videos with this topic. It’s amazing to hear the different notes you can get playing quietly.

  • @Chainsaws-backyardblues456
    @Chainsaws-backyardblues456 22 дня назад +2

    What a sweet set of notes!!

  • @catalintzetzeradulescu568
    @catalintzetzeradulescu568 22 дня назад +3

    Thank you, Adam!

  • @mezz8468
    @mezz8468 15 дней назад

    BRO you are BACK after a while!!! So GLAD!!!!

  • @MessengersoftheCross
    @MessengersoftheCross 20 дней назад +1

    Missed you Adam. Glad to see you.

  • @JB-rw9xt
    @JB-rw9xt 22 дня назад +2

    Thank you Professor Gussow!

  • @Andy-der-Kritische5683
    @Andy-der-Kritische5683 22 дня назад +1

    Hear you playing is like a sunny afternoon with good Feelings. I love it. Greetings from Saxony/Germany.

  • @nkr8894
    @nkr8894 17 дней назад

    Id love another audiobook where you narrate for this new book.

  • @user-et3vf4hg7t
    @user-et3vf4hg7t 22 дня назад +1

    🎶💕✌🏽 I appreciate it.
    Always a good lesson
    American better care of America

  • @Philharpo
    @Philharpo 22 дня назад +1

    Good to see you again. Great video.

  • @SwampCityRadio1974
    @SwampCityRadio1974 22 дня назад +1

    I have a friend that speaks softly, not in a way that is annoyingly quiet, or at least only a little bit, but because it has authority behind it, because his words are well chosen, it makes you lean in to hear it. Maybe there is a style of playing like that.

  • @MaximilianoJ
    @MaximilianoJ 22 дня назад

    Simply and always amazing.

  • @StevenSmith-7t391
    @StevenSmith-7t391 22 дня назад

    Been wondering where you went. Great to see you back!

  • @markwalters9754
    @markwalters9754 22 дня назад +1

    Love your videos.. thank you

  • @igorgilza
    @igorgilza 18 дней назад

    I need more Adam Gussow in my life

  • @warwickclark2143
    @warwickclark2143 21 день назад

    Brilliant - looking forward to the book....

  • @peteaustin5327
    @peteaustin5327 22 дня назад

    Nice lesson Adam. I cut my teeth playing along with J Giles albums so i really have watch myself to dial it back. Thank you !!

  • @DenisHarris-ix1rq
    @DenisHarris-ix1rq 21 день назад

    Good one Adam.

  • @dirtworshiper2800
    @dirtworshiper2800 19 дней назад

    The man is back in town. Spread the word around.

  • @nealakagoddy7191
    @nealakagoddy7191 22 дня назад

    I've been following you for years 😁 Always a good lesson or inspirational chat 👍
    Thank you ,
    If it's any consolation while your roasting over there , it's raining here in Cornwall 🤣 how terribly British of me to bring up the weather 😂🤣😂

  • @sparkybearings
    @sparkybearings 16 дней назад

    Honestly, I only listen to the playing and back off when the yacking starts. I just dig the harmonica

  • @aaaaaa-nj2wd
    @aaaaaa-nj2wd 22 дня назад

    oh guru, my guru! only gussow weaves uncertainty principle into a blues harmonica lesson. ❤🙌😂✌️✨️🤘

    • @aaaaaa-nj2wd
      @aaaaaa-nj2wd 22 дня назад

      also, 'A' harp has always been my jam for lonely hearts club parking garage playing. 👍

    • @gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726
      @gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726  21 день назад +1

      Yes, and great point. I don't actually show you how to play every part of the 12-bar pattern I do here. That will infuriate some people. But it will also frustrate AI. Aha! Gussow 1, the Machine 0.

  • @greggmarkowski5203
    @greggmarkowski5203 22 дня назад

    Great lesson, thanks! Can't wait for the book. A harp was the 2nd harp I bought after a C and I've always loved it. For me, I like the rich sound of the A but I still have some dexterity on it that I don't have with harps lower than an A. For a long time I hated the G but after being forced by the songs my band plays to use it a lot I've come to appreciate it a little more, but still like the A better.

  • @rikard1414
    @rikard1414 22 дня назад

    If I could play 1% of that I would be the best harmonica player in my country

  • @michaelcarlisle5403
    @michaelcarlisle5403 19 дней назад

    AI and other computers need electricity , a harmonica is powered by imagination!

  • @artanthony2941
    @artanthony2941 22 дня назад

    I have heard from other professional Harmonica players, that playing as softly as they can really improved their playing.

  • @SwampCityRadio1974
    @SwampCityRadio1974 22 дня назад

    As per the video, readdressing hand position on the harmonica is actually a really good place to start in a diagnostic of improving tone and dynamic control. If you have that top finger all over the top plate, I mean, covering the hole numbers on the top cover plate, it's a physical barrier to getting a relaxed embouchure around the harmonica.

  • @klisher
    @klisher 22 дня назад

    We was lucky to get to 50 degrees yesterday here in UK.

  • @nacoran
    @nacoran 22 дня назад

    Nice riff. :)

  • @bloodshotgaming7
    @bloodshotgaming7 22 дня назад

    Thank you for 100 of awesome video sir ,
    Basic learning done, now using special 20 in c , and suzuki bluemaster in A coming soon,

    • @cantcheatkarma3493
      @cantcheatkarma3493 22 дня назад +1

      I'd cancel the blues master, it's an awful harmonica, stick with the 20 or the Marine band!

    • @bloodshotgaming7
      @bloodshotgaming7 22 дня назад

      @@cantcheatkarma3493 oh really let's see

    • @bloodshotgaming7
      @bloodshotgaming7 22 дня назад

      @@cantcheatkarma3493 what you mean is that suzuki is not good then what about seydel n honher n leeoskers

    • @cantcheatkarma3493
      @cantcheatkarma3493 22 дня назад

      @@bloodshotgaming7. Just personal experience, I think the blues master is an awkward shape and doesn't play the best, I'd say hohner special 20 or Marine band or Marine band deluxe is the best by a country mile, though the blues master may suit you perfectly.
      No malice intended by my comment by the way, just trying save you a few quid!
      All the best

    • @bloodshotgaming7
      @bloodshotgaming7 22 дня назад

      @@cantcheatkarma3493 thanks let seee it's my 3rd harmonica
      1st is local basic, then special 20, now new let's see

  • @18Yoav
    @18Yoav 21 день назад +1

    How about no sound and imagining the sound in your mind

  • @kotaszdr5297
    @kotaszdr5297 22 дня назад

    😊👍🏆🥃

  • @bloodshotgaming7
    @bloodshotgaming7 12 дней назад

    After the C harmonica i bought A harmonica but A harmonica also sounds same as C harmonica nothing change , but checked notes as per blending traning app it's perfect , need help to understand the keys

  • @jaciobe
    @jaciobe 19 дней назад

    What are the tabs for yhe 1st riff you play in.this vid. The introduction part

  • @ikust007
    @ikust007 22 дня назад +1

    6:41 I am
    Now playing on low Harps in order to not disturb .

  • @user-jf3hh4xr4n
    @user-jf3hh4xr4n 22 дня назад

    Music is a conversation. If there is nobody behind it, what's the point?

  • @user-lr6dz6ft2d
    @user-lr6dz6ft2d 22 дня назад

    Man! You’ve got such a beautiful tone. Can you, I wonder, tell who’s playing by their tone? I mean you, specifically.

    • @gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726
      @gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726  22 дня назад +1

      Thanks. It's a great question. I've spoken more than once about the three-second test: if you heard some harmonica on the radio, could you tell within three seconds which player it was? Only the best players fall into that category. The thing is, tone is only a part of what lets us make that quick ID. Swing, the player's rhythmic sense, is also a part of that "voice," as are the player's note choices. Technical brilliance, too. Sugar Blue and Jason Ricci immediately come to mind. I could immediately recognize Rick Estrin, Kim Wilson, Howard Levy, Carlos del Junco, among living players. I'd like to hear from others about which living players they can immediately recognize in a blind test. Billy Branch. Dennis Gruenling? Sometimes I can't quite tell, so I keep listening. Does the player do something that ONLY that player could or would do? William Clarke, James Cotton, Sonny Boy II, and of course Big Walter Horton and Little Walter, were immediately recognizable in that way. Paul Delay, too. He does blow arpeggios in second position that no other player does. I've got a couple of distinctive overblow runs that I've been polishing for more than 30 years; I'd like to think that when I throw that sort of signature riff into a solo, it just couldn't be any other player. Check out this track where I was called in as a session player. open.spotify.com/track/44gXEkPC4bYOQDp8zVldYq?si=9114a46c77334910

    • @henrykrinkle3609
      @henrykrinkle3609 20 дней назад

      @@gussowsclassicbluesharmoni2726 I mostly agree, those are great great players, and us amateurs can only dream of playing like them! But the players that I can recognise within 3 seconds are the ones that some people think of as "second tier" I'm talking of the likes of Snooky Pryor, Big John Wrencher, and Lazy Lester, you know the ones. It would take me a solo or 2 to tell the difference between, say Dennis Gruenling and Rick Estrin, but with the others I mentioned, I'd know them instantly! I'm not saying they're better, maybe they just have a narrower range, and what they do, they do well!

  • @user-et3vf4hg7t
    @user-et3vf4hg7t 22 дня назад

    Min1920 Is your riff

  • @grahamrawlings937
    @grahamrawlings937 22 дня назад

    I meet up with some friends to have a jam, and we asked Ai to write a blues song that 3 middle class white guys would write from the southwest of England, and it did sadly it was actually quite good and we had fun with it.

  • @jantonisito
    @jantonisito 22 дня назад

    AI will never be able to play harmonica. Or jazz. NEVER. Even Irish music.