Equipment Lessons

We now have a "Equipment Lesson" section of the website. This is where I'll be posting video lessons on how to use amps, mics, effects processors, learning tools and software. Your first lessons are software lessons...

Playing & Organizing
iTunes is the most common music player and software system in the world for organizing your digital music. In this lesson you'll learn how to: take study songs from BluesHarmonica.com and place them into your iTunes library; load songs into your iTunes library from a CD; create playlists and organize your music so that it's very searchable.

Practice Tools
The Amazing Slow Downer is a highly effective learning tool for studying recorded music. With the Amazing Slowdowner you can: play music from a CD or digital file; slow it down (without changing the pitch or key of a song); change the key (without affecting the tempo); loop a section of a song or a specific lick to repeat continuously and save any variation of these changes to a music file for listening on a digital music device or for burning to a CD. You will learn how to do all of this in this video series as well as some insight on how you can best use this program for your studies.

Recording
GarageBand is an intuitive recording program that comes preinstalled on Mac computers. In these videos you'll learn how to record yourself playing a study song for submission at BluesHarmonica.com. Studies include: importing a BluesHarmonica.com study song jam track into GarageBand as a backing track; recording a harmonica track; mixing and exporting as an MP3 for submission.