I just came across this and I want to say thanks. This greatly simplified something for me that I never had gotten quite right. I met Sonny once at the Light House in Redondo Beach (I think) back in '73. He showed me a few licks and I tried them, badly I'm afraid. He just laughed and said "Don't worry, in thirty years you'll get it!"
Thanks for doing this for guys like me that struggle but wanna play so bad I will never quit! I might suck at harmonica but no one will ever accuse me of being a quitter! 😂
Oh you know, Sonny Terry style is so very popular and you are so very good at both playing and teaching it, it is in fact a fortitious marriage made for consummation! With kindest regards and solemn expressions of my deepest respect for a master of our craft, thank you.
Well done Ben. My first influence was Sonny Terry back in 1972 when I got his and brownies album"Down Home Blues" At first I was stunned and intimidated by the sounds coming out of such a small instrument and stopped trying for a month, yet kept listening to that album and eventually bought about 15 albums by him. Love it and glad that nowadays there is youtube and folks like you to break it down. Way I learned was listening for hours on end and trying to figure out what he was doing :)
Yes, it's tricky to figure out, and you are right, you just have to keep listening over and over until you get it. I've broken a lot of this stuff down and there are now three books each containing 60 Sonny Terry licks. They all live on harmonicaworld followed by a dot and then net slash shop/sonny-terry-blues-riffs/ if anyone wants to take a look. You get each one at three different speeds and also written down. I am very pleased with them.
Hi Ben. I'm not a beginner, but I still enjoyed these examples as a great starting point for this style. Great exercises for evening out your breathing. And learning rhythm vocabulary ( ticka tuka, do da, he ha, de chuck, etc )Thanks for sharing. Hope you are well, and safe.
Yes, breathing is tricky. Mostly in 2nd position you are breathing in so take every advantage of of an out breath within the music - and then empty your lungs completely. Also you can spill air wherever possible or do some whooping to release air. Ben
Also, use your nose, to both ex- and inhale whenever you have a surplus or a lack of air in you longs. It helped me out alot in the beginning. Once you get a feel for a tune, you regulate your breath much better to fit the tune, and may not need the nose so much. But it's there! Use it
What a fantastic lesson. I've had a harmonica for a week and a half, and you have helped me string something together that sounds like the instrument. A massive thank you. Subscribed :)
I just found you again, used to practice your lessons a few years ago, my computer busted and I didn't know where to find you;, whooopeee found you again, have been following other instructors and getting no where, no continuity, each instructor teaches a little bit and ii have been totally confused and will start again with you, thanks, jim
Hey Jim, glad our paths crossed again! How can I help you? Do you want a proper organised course (www.playharmonica.co.uk) or a Skype catchup (benhewlettbenhewlett) and assessment of your playing and where I can point you? Ben
is there a whey i can get private lessons? i live in the Gloucestershire area. And for anybody out there who is starting like myself.......watch this guy. One hell of a teacher.
This is a great lesson; straight to the meat and potatoes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will definitely consider purchasing the course in the future.
I found the link www.udemy.com/benhewlettharmonicatuition60sonnyterryriffslevel1/ Thank you for your statement, this that I need to learn, I will do soon!
yes i have and let a few of my harp buddies know about this vid and recommend to subscribe finding this really helped and opened up more riffs ..keep up the good vids
@117849976380264954306 The answer is on the video - watch the video to find out. Or try a few different harps and try to work it out. Try that first and if you still don't know as me again.
Sure they are all at my dot net site harmonicaworld and called sonny Terry 1,2 and 3. There are also you tube ideos for them on my other channel paullennonUK. I see some on the right as I write this!
Hi Ben. I have got your Blues Riff 101. Really good book.. Can you help me please? On page 11 song 15. the middle bit has 345 blow. It sounds to me you are tongue blocking would I be right? Thank you in anticipation.. Steve
Hi Ben, I need some advice about bending notes on a Harmonica. I'm attending a beginners class I have been there for 8 months now however, I can't bend any notes. I practice 2 hours every day just on bending notes but, I've had no success so, my question is this. Is it a techniques that some people can do and others can't or is it just me being obtuse?
+Laurence Mann Best thing is to ask your teacher. You can see my videos on note bending on this channel and my courses on Udemy.com/u/benhewlett - if you see one you like ask me for a discount. I normally teach people to bend hole 1 draw instantly. Who is your teacher?
Not like the didge. That involves circular breathing and the harmonica doesn't need that as it is the only instrument where you actively breath in to play it. You CAN use that technique on the out or in breath but I don't very often. Just try the first riff very slowly and learn how to limit the inhale and exaggerate the exhale.
Good, glad you liked it and thanks for the encouraging comment! Have a look on Harmonica World dot net at the three ST books I've written - if fact one is on special offer this week if I remember.
I would like to have from you more object lessons but to a sazheleniye I have no opportunity to pay as a standard of living for the today's moment very low I could buy only a harmonica
игорь коляда Well there are plenty of free lessons on youtube so that's great for you. Also try this amazing online harmonica course for half normal price tinyurl.com/YTdiscount and if you search for discount vouchers for Udemy courses you can probably find nearly free courses. Good luck.
I just came across this and I want to say thanks. This greatly simplified something for me that I never had gotten quite right. I met Sonny once at the Light House in Redondo Beach (I think) back in '73. He showed me a few licks and I tried them, badly I'm afraid. He just laughed and said "Don't worry, in thirty years you'll get it!"
Dicky Neely Well Dicky, 30 years is up so go for it!
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I'm a beginner, l really enjoyed this lesson thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Plenty more on Sonny on the website when you are ready.
Thanks for doing this for guys like me that struggle but wanna play so bad I will never quit! I might suck at harmonica but no one will ever accuse me of being a quitter! 😂
Thank You very much VERY HELPFUL
Oh you know, Sonny Terry style is so very popular and you are so very good at both playing and teaching it, it is in fact a fortitious marriage made for consummation!
With kindest regards and solemn expressions of my deepest respect for a master of our craft, thank you.
Well done Ben. My first influence was Sonny Terry back in 1972 when I got his and brownies album"Down Home Blues" At first I was stunned and intimidated by the sounds coming out of such a small instrument and stopped trying for a month, yet kept listening to that album and eventually bought about 15 albums by him. Love it and glad that nowadays there is youtube and folks like you to break it down. Way I learned was listening for hours on end and trying to figure out what he was doing :)
Yes, it's tricky to figure out, and you are right, you just have to keep listening over and over until you get it. I've broken a lot of this stuff down and there are now three books each containing 60 Sonny Terry licks. They all live on harmonicaworld followed by a dot and then net slash shop/sonny-terry-blues-riffs/ if anyone wants to take a look. You get each one at three different speeds and also written down. I am very pleased with them.
Hi Ben. I'm not a beginner, but I still enjoyed these examples as a great starting point for this style. Great exercises for evening out your breathing. And learning rhythm vocabulary ( ticka tuka, do da, he ha, de chuck, etc )Thanks for sharing. Hope you are well, and safe.
My pleasure!
Yes, breathing is tricky. Mostly in 2nd position you are breathing in so take every advantage of of an out breath within the music - and then empty your lungs completely. Also you can spill air wherever possible or do some whooping to release air. Ben
Also, use your nose, to both ex- and inhale whenever you have a surplus or a lack of air in you longs. It helped me out alot in the beginning. Once you get a feel for a tune, you regulate your breath much better to fit the tune, and may not need the nose so much. But it's there! Use it
again a very good lesson and it forced me to think a lot about controlling my breathing to keep the riff moving. Thanks
What a fantastic lesson. I've had a harmonica for a week and a half, and you have helped me string something together that sounds like the instrument. A massive thank you. Subscribed :)
Hello from Russia! Good lessons you - plain and simple!
I'm glad you like it, I try to keep everything I do on RUclips and Google simple. Have a look at my courses on Udemy.com - details above.
I love ST style and for me, you have a good way to teach this.
Yes, he was wonderful
I just found you again, used to practice your lessons a few years ago, my computer busted and I didn't know where to find you;, whooopeee found you again, have been following other instructors and getting no where, no continuity, each instructor teaches a little bit and ii have been totally confused and will start again with you, thanks, jim
Hey Jim, glad our paths crossed again! How can I help you? Do you want a proper organised course (www.playharmonica.co.uk) or a Skype catchup (benhewlettbenhewlett) and assessment of your playing and where I can point you? Ben
Thank you for this. These riffs are great to help me build a Sonny Terry foundation that I can work on and add to.
is there a whey i can get private lessons? i live in the Gloucestershire area. And for anybody out there who is starting like myself.......watch this guy. One hell of a teacher.
This is a great lesson; straight to the meat and potatoes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will definitely consider purchasing the course in the future.
Great lesson, thanks for sharing!
You're welcome Roberto. Have you tried my Sonny Terry course on Udemy?
I found the link www.udemy.com/benhewlettharmonicatuition60sonnyterryriffslevel1/
Thank you for your statement, this that I need to learn, I will do soon!
Excelente ! muchas gracias desde Argentina.
Best lesson EVER!!!!!!!
Thanks. It doesn't get any better than Sonny Terry. Cool stuff! I play well, but this is awesome.
Please go over what he did for crossroads
Great lesson.
Thanks, I try to keep harmonica lessons simple - www.playharmonica.co.uk
And a really big thank you for replying...Didn't say that first time round ( should have).
Awesome! So simple.
This is great, I’m going to amazon immediately.
thanks for your video. so help me this video.. thanks a lot
thx t4 lessen. but what the h... is the magic with breathing! biggest problem XD
ok, we'll put it on the list!
great thanks
DAMMIT at lesson five my left longue collapsed! J/K!! See this should be the first 5 minutes of a DVD on Sonny Terry style! That would be perfect!
Any tips on now not run out of breath with only one blow in these riffs?
Great stuff wish i would have found this sooner
Glad you like it Louie, there's more on the site. Fancy spreading the word for me on social media/harmonica forums? I'd like more people to see it!
yes i have and let a few of my harp buddies know about this vid and recommend to subscribe finding this really helped and opened up more riffs ..keep up the good vids
Louie Blunted
Thanks Louie, most kind
Can you do Old Lost John by him, my favourite Sonny Terry song.
Could do - it would take about a month! I'll try to put up some parts of for you sometime.
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What note is your Hohner Marine Band Harmonica in?
@117849976380264954306
The answer is on the video - watch the video to find out. Or try a few different harps and try to work it out. Try that first and if you still don't know as me again.
Cleo Fierro
Me too - it's rediculously tricky!
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'Fraid so
thanks!
How do you control your breathing. got idea that in someway you need to control it like with didgerido. like it!!
Awesome
PLEASE BREAK DOWN WHAT SONNY DID FOR MOVIE COLOR PURPLE...
Send me a link and I will check it out Tyrone
It's a standard A marine band tuned to just intonation.
Sure they are all at my dot net site harmonicaworld and called sonny Terry 1,2 and 3. There are also you tube ideos for them on my other channel paullennonUK. I see some on the right as I write this!
great stuff ! Bravo ! :) ;)
Good man!
It's the camera on my old imac - still works though!
Good, that's why I do this.
what is the model and tonation of harp u play on this vid?
Hi Ben. I have got your Blues Riff 101. Really good book.. Can you help me please? On page 11 song 15. the middle bit has 345 blow. It sounds to me you are tongue blocking would I be right? Thank you in anticipation.. Steve
What books have written on the subject? Can you link?
Hi Ben, I need some advice about bending notes on a Harmonica. I'm attending a beginners class I have been there for 8 months now however, I can't bend any notes. I practice 2 hours every day just on bending notes but, I've had no success so, my question is this. Is it a techniques that some people can do and others can't or is it just me being obtuse?
+Laurence Mann Best thing is to ask your teacher. You can see my videos on note bending on this channel and my courses on Udemy.com/u/benhewlett - if you see one you like ask me for a discount. I normally teach people to bend hole 1 draw instantly. Who is your teacher?
Not like the didge. That involves circular breathing and the harmonica doesn't need that as it is the only instrument where you actively breath in to play it. You CAN use that technique on the out or in breath but I don't very often. Just try the first riff very slowly and learn how to limit the inhale and exaggerate the exhale.
Good, glad you liked it and thanks for the encouraging comment! Have a look on Harmonica World dot net at the three ST books I've written - if fact one is on special offer this week if I remember.
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Thanks
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You kinda look like Jimmy Barnes
Never heard of him
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Any chance you could translate your comment into English?
I like your lessons simply super although I live in ukraine
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Thanks for the comments, glad to hear it. Hope you guys are ok in Ukraine, keep on blowing!
I would like to have from you more object lessons but to a sazheleniye I have no opportunity to pay as a standard of living for the today's moment very low I could buy only a harmonica
игорь коляда
Well there are plenty of free lessons on youtube so that's great for you. Also try this amazing online harmonica course for half normal price
tinyurl.com/YTdiscount and if you search for discount vouchers for Udemy courses you can probably find nearly free courses. Good luck.
thanks brother....fav..and subcribed....