Quick Hello from Canada, call for intermediate to advanced students: a different perspective?

Hey there everybody, I just wanted to say you guys are seriously lucky to have such a great and selfless teacher as David Barrett. No one comes close to David's thoroughness in harmonica instruction, subjects and online web site format at bluesharmonica.com !

That said, if any of you more intermediate to advanced players ever want to enhance your existing knowledge on all things harmonica, don't hesitate to give me a shout and take a lesson or two. The one thing that I tell my students is that it is a good idea to get different perspectives on how to approach practicing. For me as an ongoing student of music in general, besides having taken lessons from a few different harmonica players when i was first learning. I have taken a few lessons with different players of different instruments including 3 different sax players, 2 piano players and recently a couple lessons with an amazing jazz flute player. Each of those players shared something unique about the way they approach practicing. But this has all been geared towards my harmonica playing. ie, i don't play the sax or flute!

A lot of what I teach has to do with developing your ear thru transcribing solos to memory. The sooner you start to develop this muscle, the faster you will start to expand your musical vocabulary. All the great blues and jazz players did this at one time or another as they were developing as a player.

Please understand, I am not trying to take away David’s business, but simply to embellish your mastery of this humble little instrument we all love. He has given me his own personal blessing on this!

cheers, and all the best,
Carlos del Junco
cdj@carlosdeljunco.com