This really blew me away, follow the money…

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Be careful kids.

One of my all time favourite songs (and bands).

I remember first hearing this on the abc on some sports panel show, can’t remember the name, but they moved to a commercial channel and died soon after, grrr. I was hypnotised, it’s very deep and I’m not even a little religious.

I can’t even remember how the original tune of amazing grace goes, I’ve listened to this version so many times.

I got Blue Tongues Harmonica Talk CD recently. It sounds great and it’s nice and easy to listen to. It’s described as blues and country harmonica fundamentals, and I was surprised how easy it was to pick up blues techniques when they are broken down into their individual parts. It’s a bit more difficult stringing them together, but practice, practice, practice ;)

A few weeks of practicing along with the cd and I’ll get some lessons I think. Might have to dig out the guitar, too.

About a month ago I watched some random youtube video, and in the related videos was a blues harmonica howto which I clicked. It was awesome, I loved the sound and it looked easy enough. I can’t find that video now, and I have no idea how it related to the video I was watching ;)

I visited a local music shop and bought a harmonica, Hohner Blues Harp MS, wooden comb, C key. Think it was $45. $45 for a high quality musical instrument, awesome.

So I searched youtube and google for beginner harp lessons, there’s heaps of stuff out there. The first hurdle is blowing through one hole only, not easy at first when the holes are so close together. But there’s various techniques the lessons go through and with a bit of practice it’s not too difficult.

Anywho, on to the reason for this post. I come across a web page that recommended Hohner special 20 blues harp in the key of C for learning, and so I searched and come across bluetongueharmonica.com.au that had them. I ordered a special 20 for myself, $38, and a happy harp for my nephew, $7, in green. The colour is important, green sounds so much better to my nephew being his favourite colour.

Anyway, I was excitedly waiting for my order, especially the happy harp so I could give it to my nephew, and there was a delay and a mix up, and I sent an email complaining. It’s not really something I do very often, I’ll even say thank you to bad service at times :(

Barely minutes after sending the email, I think it was Doug from Blue Tongue Harmonica called and apologised and explained that they just had a big harmonica festival on and things were crazy, plus a worker was off sick and more than made things right.

I felt so good about the chat, Doug sounds like cool dude, and the fix up, that I wanted to give them a plug, and a recommendation. I think Doug is a shrewd business man that knows how to treat his customers, and I’m all for supporting small businesses.

This is what I aspire to

BTW, when uploading a harmonica video to youtube, it’s compulsory to hold the harp up to the camera and to make sure viewers can’t see a damn thing written on the harp.

This is what I sound like, sort of, without the bending.

(that’s not me in the video, obviously ;) )

If you want to try a harmonica out, give blue tongue harmonica a ring or email. They have everything you need, including instructional books and cds and private lessons and group workshops. Tell them I sent you ;)