What are the 5 steps to success?

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We will hold your hand and walk you through, step by step, slowly slowly!

STEP 1. Ready Steady Go... (54321) you will want to understand the basics of your harmonica so you can build your higher-level skills on a solid foundation. We teach you how to hold it, how to breathe properly, how to play and use chords, how to play simple blues straight away, how and why playing in rhythm is critical, simple maintenance, care and repair of your harmonica.

STEP 2. Game-changing baby steps:  

The next step is getting single notes so you can play tunes. We teach you all the 7 ways to get single notes so you can start playing easy tunes immediately.

STEP 3. Playing music with other people - how? 

Practising with backing tracks (and enjoying open mic sessions) is a great confidence booster to prepare for playing live with other people. We teach you everything you need to have fun playing music in a live group setting.

STEP 4. Turbocharge your skills: 

Next you will want to gain some higher-level skills like note bending, improvising, playing in other keys, playing different styles of music, and playing more interesting tunes. We will hold your hand all the way through!

STEP 5.  Finally, you will want to think about performance and musicality. Even if you are 'just’ performing Happy Birthday, or playing at a Jam Session, you will need to know how to become confident, to stand out from the crowd, and not make a complete arse of yourself. You can do it!

1. Study 90 hours of Ben's video courses/tuition-book training (anytime)
2. Friendly Support/Mentoring/Feedback/Motivation - FB group (daily)
3. Ben's Group Coaching Zoom calls/Buddy Groups (Mon/Wed/Fri 7pm)
4. Guest Masterclasses, and Open Mic Sessions (monthly)
5. Accountability - follow the program and your success is inevitable

1. It's a private group - invitation only, no dickheads allowed
2. We give you the opportunity to post a 1-minute video every day
3. You get instant feedback from fellow students and our group experts
4. You will be heard, listened to, congratulated and encouraged
5. You might get your arse kicked as well - but in a nice way!
6. You get the chance to help your fellow students on their journey
7. You will document your harmonica journey every day for 90 days
8. You will want to do a farewell performance on day 90
9. You make friends for life and watch their harmonica careers unfold
10. After 90 days you go to the Graduate Facebook group
11. You might become a group expert or get another job hosting/helping
12. After that - we might invite you to do the 90 day journey again...
13. It's a little bit of pressure - not too much, just enough
14. Don't forget - you get lifetime access to all this

HARMONICA MASTERY TRAINING  90 hours of video tuition and 20 books

Milestone 1 - Breathing, Chords, Rhythm, and Chugging

1. HARMONICA BASICS - all you need to get started
   
2. How to practice - here's where you build your daily routine and practice schedule
   
3. Train sounds - breathing, chords, and rhythms in a locomotive setting
   
4. Get Chugging - breathing, chords, and articulations in musical settings
   
5. Get Chugging Book - This is a stand-alone version containing a 'pdf and backing tracks'
   
6. Blues level 1 - basic blues chugging using chords in a '12 bar blues' structure/sequence. Ignore the latter part with single notes - come back to it after you've done the 'Five ways to play single notes' course
   
7. Cleaning and maintenance - workshop with Kinya Pollard many ways to clean your harmonica
   
8. Tone masterclass - 27 ideas to help you work on your tone

Milestone 2 - Single Notes (one note, one hole):

1. Five ways to play single notes (we keep finding new ways - up to 8 now)
   
2. Search for the Single Note
   
3. 17 Simple Scales
   
4. Blues level 2
   
5. BLUES JAM FACTORY - BOOK 1
   
6. Love me do
   
7. FUNKY NURSERY - BOOK
   
8. How to hack your harmonica using 'masking tape'
   
9. Drum Rudiments for harmonica
   
10. Impro from scratch
    
11. MASTERMIX - BOOK
    
12. Harmonica hooks and hits

Milestone 3 - Bending Notes (lowering the pitch of draw notes to increase your range):

• Note-bending basics - draw bending

• Tunes - learn 11 great tunes

• Basic 12 bar blues

• Sonny Terry - 19 licks

• Dummies - this is a recap of many techniques you have learned in this section

Milestone 4 - Blues focus:

• Blues chromatic (no chrom? We can send you one)

• BLUES JAM FACTORY - BOOK 2

• One harp, 2 tunes, 3 positions

• 101 BLUES RIFFS - BOOK

• Blues 12 bar bassline

• BONES OF THE BLUES - BOOK

• Bones of the Blues - the movie

• Fresh simple blues

• Blues licks 101 new riffs

• Sugar Mama - Sonnyboy 1 (John Lee)

• Spokey Dokey

• Fox Chase - Deford Bailey, Henry Witter

• Tramp groove

• Easy - Big Walter

• Trouble in Mind - Sonny Terry

• All my love in vain - Sonnyboy 2 (Rice Miller)

• My Babe - Little Walter

• Whammer Jammer

• Learning Lost John

Milestone 5 - General techniques:

• All the basic techniques again - a quick refresh to roar through - The original title is '30 day challenge', but for you, this is just a recap to see if you missed anything -you might pick up something new

• One harp, 2 tunes, 3 positions

• Note-bending advanced - blow bending, overblow and overdraw

• Tongue-blocking

• Minor tune, major harmonica

• Just play

• Seven showstopping tricks

• Turbocharge your harmonica

• Twenty awesomely different ways to play tunes

• Seven tips on improvising

• Nine smart ways to play with a band

• Music workout

• Seven amazing new skills to learn

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• Learn Harmonica Part 1 - BOOK

• Learn Harmonica Part 2 - BOOK

• Learn Harmonica Part 3 - BOOK

Milestone 6 - Increasing Repertoire; Country, Bluegrass, Cajun, Reggae, Non-Blues, Rock Tunes:

• Songs from the British Isles

• Yesterday

• Georgia On My Mind

• Cajun workshop with Aidan Sheehan

• Country music

• Rachelle Plas Country Music Masterclass

• Hallelujah

• Reggae harmonica

• Rock - Whammer Jammer

• Orange Blossom Special

• Bluegrass skills

• Fox Chase - Deford Bailey, Henry Witter

Guest Masterclasses recorded live 2021/22 - look at all the famous names! :

• Phil Henry - Folk Music and Beatboxing
• Brendan Power - the modular system reed system
• Rob (Blues Brothers Frontman) Paparozzi 1.10.21 Performance Masterclass
• Rachelle Plas 11.9.21 Country Music Masterclass
• Ed Hopwood 20.8.21 (132:10) Old Timey Style
• Aidan Sheehan 17.7.21 (61:36) Cajun Music on harmonica
• Paul Lennon 10.7.21 (73:04) Music Theory
• John Cook 3.7.21 (78:38) Maintenance and engineering
• Johnny Cope 26.6.21 (102:07) Harmonics - Jaws Harp, Throat Singing and Didgeridoo
• Paul Lamb 19.6.21 (63:18) Sonny Terry Master
• Joe Filisko 12.6.21 (86:46) The Master Talks 
• Jimi Lee 5.6.21 The groove master talks
• Kinya Pollard 8.5.21 (59:06) Cleaning and maintenance
• Keith Parker 27.3.21 (56:14) Blues Blues and Blues
• Will Wilde 13.3.21 (57:09) Rock Harmonica Star
• Rachelle Plas 27.2.21 (45:29) French Harp Star
• Brendan Power 13.2.21 (45:52) Celtic music, looping and music tech
• Ed Hopwood 30.1.21 (132:10) Old Timey Style
  

Harmonica Factory tours and chats:

• Dabell Harmonica Factory - wonderful video
• Interview with Benny Yoon - owner of Dabell Harmonica Company
• Easttop (official video) followed by Ben's visit to Easttop and Kongsheng
• Bertram Becher Seydel Harmonica Factory
  

2020 (Guests come in halfway through session mostly)

• 5.4.20 Ed Hopwood, Keith Parker, Filip Jers (93:26)
• 12.4.20 Will Wilde, Lars from Seydel, Richard Taylor (232:24)
• 19.4.20 Joe Filisko, Jerry Fierro, Rob Paparozzi (115:09)
• 26.4.20 John Cook, Roly Platt, Brendan Power (173:14)
• 3.5.20 Rohan Singhal, Johnny Cope, John Vaughan, Yuki (163:50)
• 10.5.20 Paul Lamb, Giles Robson, Simon Joy (165:34)
• 17.5.20 Beata Kosovska, Steve Baker, Adam Gussow (124:09)
• 24.5.20 Lee Oskar, Moses Concas, Steve Lockwood (191:43)
• 31.5.20 David Barrett, Kinya Pollard, Greh Heuman HEUMANN (190:56)
• 7.6.20 Jason Ricci, Tom Halchack, Rob Paparozzi
• 21.6.20 Rick Park, Mark Cole, Dave Walker, Jimi Lee (124:46)
  

If you would like an overview of Ben and Paul's Books, and to watch a video about each one, please visit https://harmonicaworld.net/collections/all-products. There's no need to buy them as they are all included in the Harmonica Mastery 90 Day Program.