Paul Butterfield - Blues Harmonica Master Class Songbook with Online Audio | Blues Harmonica Instruction Method | Online Audio with Playback+ Player | Techniques Note Bending Tongue Blocking Tremolo

I've played blues harp since I was 16 years old. In 1967 I attened the Montrey Pop Festival where Paul and his band played. I was blown away by the performance of the tune Drifting and Drifting (it's on youtube). I was amazed; How he could make that harmonica sound. I was hooked. Over the next 43 years I've listen and played along with Pauls albums, CD's (in addition to other blues harpest). I've perfected most of his harp licks into my own style of sound and playing, (and you should too). I just purchased this instructional book with CD only becasue I can't get enough of Pauls playing. This is a very easy course to start with. It flows along very good, progressively adding to the instructional content. It's a good tool to learn Pauls basics. It sould be repeated over and over again and practiced to regularly. I highly recommend that you import this instructional CD into iTunes on your comupter that way you can view each area of instruction on your screen and practice only the areas you want to by clicking the mouse. If your interested in learning more of Pauls masterful blues licks, I can't say enough about the CD The Paul Butterfield Blues Band LIVE (recorded in March 21-22 1970 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles). It some of Pauls greatest harp playing to practice too. You can't go wrong by buying any of The Paul Butterfield Bules Bands CDs to practice to here on Amazon.com A great selection of hard to find blues harp master CDs.

Each time you hear Paul Butterfield say "Hi, my name is Paul Butterfield and I'd like to share a few insights on the harmonica if I could..." in his somewhat crackly worn voice, you'll be filled with a premonition that he's about to leave us. And it's sad to know that he only had a few years left when he made this recording with Happy Straum. But you can't help but love the recording, though I guess I'd almost prefer to have bought it alone without the mediocre, error-riddled book that accompanies it. Here's what the recording has to offer. 1. A conversation between Paul Butterfield and the listener that almost makes you feel like he and Happy are with you. Paul's language is different/better than plain old English. He says stuff like, "Happy and I are going to do a little guitar/harmonica thing." 2. Funny moments like when he says that he's playing a Marine Band harmonica with wooden stops and little metal reeds, and you can hear Happy laugh in the background. And another after he's done playing a tune with Happy and he exclaims, "Well, that was fun!" 3. Performance quality songs, with Happy playing guitar, that are so raw you'll tingle when you hear them. Of the 76 or so tracks on the CD, about 10 are full-on recordings of 12-bar blues songs, and each one of them is a gem. You'll be surprised when you hear Paul Butterfield sing too. Though his voice is somewhat tired, it is quintessentially bluesy and gritty. You won't want the songs to end. The material itself is incredibly advanced. Even the first simple riff he introduces, upon which you are supposed to build and advance, has several nearly impossible-to-reproduce pre-bends and bends. Just a few pages later, the material is so dense that each page will take you weeks to get through. If you're a beginner, don't even think about learning anything from this material. This is a course solely for experts. But you might still consider getting the recording just so that you can hear Paul and Happy. It generates some of the same ruminations as The Last Waltz: These are extraordinary people from an era in our history when people dared to be different, creative, and free, and they will never come again.

Butterfield was my door into the Chicago electric blues world in the mid 60's. I'd been playing in rock bands since elementary school (vocals and keyboards). Being from R.I. I'd been exposed to folk blues from the Newport fests, but I'd never heard anything like "Butter". He played with a passion and fury missing on the scene. While this tape doesn't have the intensity of his early work, it's a glimspe into his head. I've messed with harp for a number of years and recently started to get more serious. This is not for a begineer or someone who looking for traditional teaching. As he put it "these notes are there, you just have to find them". It's more like sitting next to someone who's been there, listen, try it, let him rub off on you. I would recommend this to anyone who has been working on harp and needs a fresh prespective.

What a treasure. I've been playing blues guitar for a long while and just picked up the harp about 6 weeks ago. As a huge fan of The Butterfield Blues Band, I was eager to learn about Paul's approach to the instrument. It's not everyday you can take lessons directly from one of the greats. You'll need to be a little beyond the beginner stage to tackle the majority of the content, since it does contain an abundance of bends, but I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it and only learned how to control my bends about two weeks ago (about a month after first picking up the harp). This book is more about how things should sound than it is about teaching the mechanics of how to make the sounds, but if you take it for what it is, I think it's a great, unique resource, from a legendary bluesman.

Harmonica players bend differently than guitar players, it is useful to know their licks.

Not to insult or starve other performers via their appointed meanings. Sometimes nothing helps more.

Butterfield is not a bad technician when it comes to playing the harmonica (assuming the accompanying CD is him). There are several riffs that are very impressive and entertaining. But when it comes to trying to provide the listener with instructions, he falls quite a bit short. I found that he tends to speak in generalities and makes some assumptions that, had he clarified, would have added volumes to the listener's understanding. I listened to the CD several times and never could find an instance where he actually indicates where he is about to start on the harmonica (4th hole draw, 6th hole blow, etc. . .) It is this lack of clarification that I found very distracting, and often downright frustrating. The turnaround riffs starting around track 45 are excellent. But they require the student to have mastered bending. A tough task for a newcomer. He almost has a great teaching tool here -- but I was hoping for a little better than almost. . .

excellent overview of Paul Butterfield's harmonica style cd is very useful. notation is easy to follow and seems to be very accurate

To CD alone was priceless. And, as has been said before, listening to Butterfield's relaxed and personal delivery was a real pleasure. Although this is definitely not for the beginner, the examples given are dealt with very thoroughly and in a steady easy to follow way. Be warned there are very few direct descriptions of which notes to blow or draw, but if you have a little experience you can work it out. The book is a support to the disc, not the other way round.

Excellent....but, it's not a how-to-play book , or a Paul Butterfield Blues Band song book. As someone else pointed out, the book is just a support for the audio . This version comes with a download link that I much rather prefer.. All 75 tracks are on my phone now . This is for an intermiadte player +...maybe beginner, if your musically trained a bit.(I play guitar) It does NOT hold your hand, but the samples are played and tab provided...YOU have to match them up. There's no like 1.a 1.b etc Several lines of tab are given, (and musical notation). and Paul just runs through them. However, it's not just random licks. Paul starts with a simple theme, and builds it up, much like a Jason Ricci Free Friday, lol I love this book, hearing Paul speak and play is great , lots of demos not tabbed out included, but the book themes are in them. Great ear training . It's well worth the money. Lots of good Butterfield ideas that'll keep you inspired for quite a while, because it'll take quite a while to nail this . It's not a song book. It's not a how to book...it's a blues harmonica idea book, with lots of great ideas. ..and a little rythymn training to keep it fun. I did a run through video of the audio, you'll see how great it is, even a lick or two of my bad playing....forgot the video capture can record my voice as well. If you can bend notes, have some vibrato, play clean single notes, and love blues harp, then you'll love this book . I think there's about 60 minutes +/- or so of audio, with Paul talking, explaining ,playing & giving out tips for playing . You should have a C,A, D & G harps if you want to follow along with everything, but just a C harp covers more than half the book. Short book, but idea packed. Plus Paul singing & playing the blues! I learned a new musical term I never heard before . Tremulent.....hence my headline, lol

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wie neu, wunderbar erklärt, leider ohne CD, ein muss für den Harmonica Fan.

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