Gibbs Smith Publisher
How To Play the Harmonica
Product Code: 05706
ISBN: 978-1-4236-0570-6
Size: 5.5" X 7.5" X .41"
Availability: In stock
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| ePub eBook | $7.99 |
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Filled with ideas for how to liven up your life, How to Play the Harmonica is the perfect companion for keeping you happy. Lost your dog? Call him home with a shrill whistle on your harmonica. Bored at work? Impress your colleagues with your witty banter and new thoughts on life. Tired of cooking? Throw in the apron and head out for Chinese . . . in Beijing. With the harmonica as his guide, Sam Barry leads the way to higher sense of self and fun.
As a former minister, reporter, activist, bohemian, writer and artist, Sam Barry knows a great many things about life-and playing the harmonica. Barry currently works as a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne and plays the harmonica in The Rock Bottom Remainders with his brother Dave. He and his partner, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, live in San Francisco.
Witty ways for putting some fun back into your funny bone!
As a former minister, reporter, activist, bohemian, writer and artist, Sam Barry knows a great many things about life-and playing the harmonica. Barry currently works as a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne and plays the harmonica in The Rock Bottom Remainders with his brother Dave. He and his partner, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, live in San Francisco.
Witty ways for putting some fun back into your funny bone!
Table Of Contents:
foreword by dave barry 6
acknowledgments 10
prologue: how playing can save your life 11
playing: your inalienable right 17
breathing and other essentials 33
listening: big ears are pretty 43
stage fright 51
jumping in the deep end 55
keeping the faith 63
just a white boy lost in the blues 71
practice works 83
making time to play 93
melody & harmony: what makes a song a song? 97
we've got rhythm 107
improvisation: how to fake it so you make it 113
oops! the law of mistakes 121
plays well with others 125
failure is an option 133
etiquette: good manners matter 137
dancing the two-step with two left feet 141
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Reviews
Review Bookpage - August 17, 2009
"In this little gem of a book, Barry's pastorly reassurances loosen ties, bring out inner chickens and enable nascent musicians to let rip like Dylan and the Boss, eventually moving toward pomposity-slaying licks and writing an original blues song (because you know you have one in you)."