So in an effort to improve my playing I recently resolved to learn one lick a week from Tom Balls Little Walter and Big Walter book. Its not that I really want to learn licks, it's more of a means to force myself to learn some of the advanced techniques of the two Walters. Tom's book is an advanced book (a great book), that is full of octaves, tongue splits, chords, partial chords and other techniques. These techniques are key element of good tone and variety. Anyways, to get each lick to sound sort of like Tom's will take me 3 or 4 weeks at least initially. So I'm working on 4 licks at a time at each daily session. <snip> =====