RaJazz Blues Harp Academy - Online Classes

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Classes on Google Meet, 4 Classes Per Week, 
Duration - 45 mins + Practice Materials. 
Email: RajazzBlues@gmail.com  Mobile: 09880243305

Level 1 - Beginner Skills
- Hold the harmonica properly
- Clean single notes without bleed from adjacent holes
- Clean chords that don’t sound strained
- Can play a clean 2 hole draw
- Played over a 12 bar blues (you don’t necessarily understand it yet)
- Play single notes in time with a beat on the metronome
- Can play at least one simple melody
- Can play the C major scale between holes 4 and 7
- Know the difference between ‘Straight’ and ‘Shuffle’ rhythms
- Know how to warble
- Experimented with bending the 4 draw, 3 draw and 2 draw
- Know how to play glissandos
- Simple Comping

Level 2 - Advanced Beginner Skills
- Play a strong clean 2 hole draw
- Knowledge of 12 bar blues structure and how to play over one
- Comfortable with 1/4 note, 1/8 note and triplet rhythms
- Articulate notes
- Bend a 4 draw from the clean note and straight on
- Bend a 2 draw (whole step) from the clean note and straight on
- Bend a 3 draw (half step) from the clean note and straight on
- Blues scale in 2nd position
- Chug chords with a shuffle rhythm
- Alternate chords and single notes
- Warbles
- Glissandos
- Quick change 12 bar blues structure
- Pickup phrases

Level 3 - Intermediate Skills
- Knowledge of 12 bar blues root notes in two octaves
- Hole-skipping blues scale
- Happy improvising over 12 bar blues with more than root notes
- Able to transcribe simple blues licks by ear
- One chord blues
- Hook-based blues
- 8 bar blues
- Tongue-blocked octaves
- Blues scale triplet patterns
- Thinking in scale degrees
- Boogie and box shuffle bass lines
- 3 draw (whole step bend)
- Solo harmonica vampin

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About RaJazzBlues:

Rajazz Blues is India's first Blues Harmonica Online Classes initiative started in year 2021 by Rajesh S.

"Harmonica was passion from my childhood. In 2018 I started learning Saxophone and was progressing well, but then I came across Blues genre and I was more fascinated by seeing the performances of Bules Harmonica players like Aki Kumar, Adam Gussow and David Barrett. In 2018, I discontinued Saxophone to give my full potential to learning Blues Harmonica. Covid-19 pandemic gave me an opportunity to explore further in Blues, I leant from the great teachers/players like David Barrett, Adam Gussow, Ben Hewlett & Tomlin Leckie and advanced my skills to Advance Intermediate as of last year. And now I am steadily progressing on my Advance Skills with blessings from my mentors Tomlin, Adam & Aki Kumar."  - Rajesh S

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