Re: [Harp-L] Getting Started Playing Blues Harp

[Rick In Davis <rickindavis@xxxxxxxxx>]

This post made me think...  When I started playing harp in 1971 there was no Internet.  The only instruction I could find was the little folded paper insert in the Hohner Marine Band box.  I know there was an instructional book back then that many players used, but it was not available back then in small town Wyoming. 
   
  I don't want this post to sound like a geezer whine about the old days, but there were no harp tabs, no Harp-L, no jams on Bluesharp.org, nothing.  Heck, I did not even know anyone who played harp with any proficiency. 
   
  I taught myself by doing what I recommend to my students today:  Play a lot and listen a lot.  I played constantly, sometimes to the consternation of those around me.  I listened to as much harp as I could, especially country and bluegrass harp.  I was inspired by Don Brooks who played harp on Waylon Jennings' early outlaw albums, including "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "This Time."  And Charlie McCoy, Mickey Raphael, Jimmy Fadden, Lee Oskar, and all the blues harp snippets played by rock players, such as Jimmy Page.      
   
  It makes me wonder if I could have been a better player if the Internet (or something like it) had existed back when I was starting out.  I think the answer is "Yes."  All those resources, back when I had all that energy and enthusiasm, could only have made me a better player.  I envy the guys starting out now.
   
  Have I really been playing for 35 years?  Sheesh!
   
  -Rick  
   
   
  
Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  I just noticed that one of my favorite links from when I started has
gone off the web. I panicked a bit because I always loved this page and
was using its list of songs as a guideline and hadn't saved it. So I
found it in google's cache. I'm posting how to retrieve it from there in
case anyone wants it before it disappears from the cache and is gone for
good. 

Bill Hines

An alternate way to get to the cached entry of that second document is
to do this:

1. go to www.google.com
2. enter the search terms like this (including the quotes): "the blues
standards" "faqs for neophytes, newbies" 
3. In the results, you will see this page but if you click on it, you'll
get a "not found error" so don't do that. Instead, click on the "cached"
link just below it. That should send you to the copy in google's cache.
4. In your browser menu, choose File/Save As to save it to your hard
drive.



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