Learn to play the blues harmonica classic Spokey Dokey now!
Super popular blues and guitar music, many people were inspired to play harmonica because of this piece - learn it now!
Watch Promo to get a sneaky peek!
This is the Cowboy Bebop anime soundtrack with guitar from passionate Japanese harp man Ryuichiro 'Weeping Harp' Senoh.
He is no longer with us but his widow Kikue Senoh has kindly given me permission to make a public course and use his music from the Youtube movie recordings.
She says: "I am the wife of Weeping Harp Senoh. I'm not good at English, it's hard to understand, I'm sorry. Good luck with your copy of Spokey Dokey. Please give a public lesson. Weeping Harp Senoh is also happy." Kikue Senoh
Her site for him is here https://sites.google.com/view/skikue/
Many people listened to the performances of Ryuichiro Senoh (Weeping Harp Senoh) who died in 2017.
Ryuichiro and (I think) Nubuo Yagi played harp for the band "The Seatbelts", a group put together for the Cowboy Bebop series of anime (Japanese animation).
Your Instructor
Ben Hewlett is passionate about teaching people like you how to play the harmonica really well.
Ben's video courses are here and if you prefer pesonal coaching and mentoring from Ben please visit www.harmonicamastery.com.
He works hard using his teaching skills to figure out how he can help you get better as a player, understand more, have more fun, and he hopes you will enjoy sharing his love of the harmonica and music in general.
He has attracted nearly 65,000 on-line harmonica students with 95,000 courses purchased and has nearly 5 thousand Youtube subscribers showing nearly 2 million views. They can't all be wrong!
Ben is the ex-Vice-President and ex-Chairman of HarmonicaUK - the community for UK harmonica players
He has been a full-time Professional Harmonica Instructor since 1995
Ben is a qualified harmonica teacher and was awarded the Accredited Diatonic Harmonica Teacher Certificate in 1993 - HTAB (Harmonica Teachers Accreditation Board, supported by Lee Oskar Harmonicas, HarmonicaUK and the International Harmonica Organisation)
Ben is a qualified music workshop leader and was awarded the Certificate of Music Workshop Skills (Goldsmiths University of London) in 1995
Ben is a qualified music teacher and was awarded the Certificate of Teaching - Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in 2002 (CTABRSM)
Course Curriculum
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PreviewSection 1 no bending (7:55)
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StartSection 2 bending hole 4 and headrolls (5:51)
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StartSection 3 split 4 and headrolls (7:00)
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StartSection 4 using hole 6 (5:01)
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StartSection 5 headrolls and drop off (3:59)
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StartSection 6 draw and blows on 4 (5:43)
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StartSection 7 getting rid of excess air (8:55)
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StartSection 8 employing a 4 to 6 jump (9:33)
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StartSection 9 split 4 on 2 and 5 blow (13:11)