Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Harmonica with Carlos del Junco

BLUES ON THE LOOSE MINI-FEST WORKSHOPS
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ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Harmonica with Carlos del Junco

Monday, June 10th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

The Other Room at The Guild Hall

Offer What You Will ($40 Recommended)

For Advanced Beginner/Intermediate players. (Based on Adam Gussow’s website and description of levels of playing ability. See link).

You’ll need at least a C harmonica. You have some fundamental mastery with getting clean single notes with air leaking into other holes.

We’ll review fundamentals of proper technique with an ear to understanding what good tone is and why it is key before diving further into advancing your playing. This could be either with a tongue block style or a pucker style. Both techniques totally valid and both are worth knowing. We’ll work on the minutia of what good bending technique is about and understanding the nuances of your embouchure to shape different notes. How to tune your ear to the note you want to play by humming a note or playing it on a keyboard (or virtual keyboard on your phone or laptop). We’ll learn some basic licks in second position and if time allows look at the breakdown of a 12-bar blues in second position. I encourage you to record the lesson with your phone.

Maximum of 8 participants.

The recommended workshop fee is $40, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds - a lower amount is welcome with no questions asked. Offers over $40 will help offset the costs for other participants or go toward future workshop opportunities in our community.

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Private lessons with Carlos del Junco:

There will also be some limited opportunities for private lessons with Carlos while he is in town ($80/hr).

For questions about the Harmonica workshops or for info on private lessons, you may contact jean@jeanlanglois.ca.

About Carlos del Junco:

To say he plays the harmonica is like saying "Jimi Hendrix plays guitar". He blows the blues harp through a prism -- suddenly it seems he's holding every color in the musical rainbow right there in his hands.

Playing a ten-hole diatonic harmonica, Carlos has developed the unique ability to play chromatically by using a recently developed "overblow" technique taught to him by jazz virtuoso Howard Levy. Carlos is one of the few pioneers of this overblow method, bringing musical credibility to what has still been considered by many in the music industry - a fringe folk instrument. His playing blurs the boundaries between blues and jazz (hence the name for his band “The Blues Mongrels”). While his emphasis is on blues, but Carlos is not afraid to traipse off in other directions delivering a seamless fusion of New Orleans second-line grooves, swing, Latin, hip-hop or ska melodies, to swampy roots rock.

https://www.carlosdeljunco.com

https://carlosdeljunco.bandcamp.com/album/blues-etc

ABOUT BLUES ON THE LOOSE:

This is your chance to up your songwriting, blues guitar and harmonica game with true masters. Visit musicyukon.com for more information.

The one and only Yukon favourite son Brandon Isaak, a celebrated songwriter, multi-instrumental and international touring and multi-award winning artist, with an affinity for sharing and a love for teaching the blues.

Carlos del Junco is not only a multi-award-winning performer, he is also a dedicated teacher with over 30 years of experience teaching harmonica. There are two workshops, described below. To figure out which level is right for you refer to https://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/whatlevel.html. Unfortunately, there is no workshop for early beginners.