TRADITIONAL MOUTH ORGAN

TRADITIONAL MOUTH ORGAN

Tutor book & cassette

by Tony (Sully) Sullivan
 

ISBN: 9780956503336
Book number HM4019 & cassette HM317
Paperback -21 pages; Publication date 1997

TRADITIONAL MOUTH ORGAN (harmonica) teaches  a genuinely traditional style of Irish and British mouth organ – totally different from the "blues harp" method described in other tutors. It describes correct techniques for playing single notes and chords; displays comprehensive note diagrams for C & G mouth organs in music and tonic sol-fa – corresponding to numbered holes. It uses a course of scale exercises to inculcate automatic note finding skills, and reveals how special techniques such as triplets, staccato chords and melody alteration make that authentic traditional sound. It shows how to play the self accompanying "vamping" style, and recommends correct instruments for sessions and solo playing. It gives advice on keys, and shows G & C mouth organ diagrams; and gives 21 instruction exercises.
Learning level: intermediate and onwards. Concert tunes are on the soundtrack CD or cassette.

Track numbers: 1. Paddy's Return/Frost is all over 2. Ward's Brae 3. Sally Gardens/Miss McLeod's 4. Old Mother Oxford 5. Rose in The Heather/Connachtman's 6. Merry Blacksmith 7.Kesh/Munster Buttermilk 8. John McFadyen 9. Boyne Hunt/Longford Collector 10. Ballydesmond/Scartaglen 11. Maid Behind The Bar 12. Madame Bonaparte.