Harmonica
Links
National Harmonica League - "The NHL is Britain's national harmonica club, with members world wide, supporting and encouraging the playing of all types of music on the chromatic, diatonic, tremolo, octave and chord harmonicas. Paul Jones is our President.
It organises events, tuition, and contests for enthusiasts, beginners, teachers, and experienced harmonica players alike, and publishes a print magazine Harmonica World.
Harmonicas Direct -The UK's premier harmonica retailer! They send harmonicas all over the world -- from Baltimore to Barnsley, from Paris to Preston, from Scunthorpe to Singapore, Rotherham to Rio De Janiero and Halifax to Hong Kong.
Harmonica
Links.com - "The most complete links site to everything
harmonica related on the web." We keep the links page
here relatively short because this site contains so many
harmonica linked sites.
Dave
Gage's Home Page- Dave is the author and founder
of Harmonica Lessons.com. He's played professionally nearly
25 years and has taught over 2000 classes and 7000 private
lessons for all styles and levels on diatonic and chromatic
harmonica. "Dave plays very powerfully and fast, clearly
treading the territory of an electric rock guitar, using
a variety of effects and distortions to get a dynamite
sound... His technique of 'tongue-switching' is the closest
you will find, to duplicating on harmonica, the guitar
playing style of 'tapping' (a la Eddie Van Halen)."
Lee
Oskar Home Page - Aside from manufacturing one
of the better diatonic harmonicas available, Lee is also
a great player and an original member of the group War.
Hohner
USA - Everything you wanted to know about the
biggest harmonica manufacturer in the world, and more.
Harp-L
Archives - The archived postings of the Harp-L
newsgroup, the largest newsgroup (user group) by and for
harmonica players. You can use the search engine to find
postings on almost any harmonica topic.
Harp-L
Mailing List Sign-up - Here is where you can subscribe
to this newsgroup. "Harp-L is a world wide electronic
mailing list for harmonipaths. A forum for harmonica players
the world over to discuss, argue and wax lyrical about
the world's most portable and fun instrument."
SPAH-
Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica.
Harmonica
Club - "Offers a song and tab archive for blues
harmonica. Also provides introductory lessons, message
board, jokes, members area, and more."
Harmonica
Players of the World - An extensive listing of
all the Harmonica Players found on the Web with links
to their sites. You will find both pro and amateur players,
male and female, diatonic and chromatic players; plus
the various groups, trios, and harmonica bands. These
talented players and groups represent all styles of music
from all eras.
Music
Theory Links
Gary
Ewer's "Easy Music Theory" - "This course
is FREE, it's EASY, and is designed to give you some rudimentary
knowledge of the basic concepts of music. There is no
registration, no logging in, no passwords or user names...
All you need is an interest in how music works."
MIDI-Based
Ear Training Site - "This program randomly
generates ear training exercises (as MIDI files) for intervals,
chords, and scales. There are various degrees of difficulty.
A list of possible answers is provided as an optional
hint, and the correct answer is revealed within selection
boxes"
Music
Theory - "Every musician needs to know the
basics of music theory. Here you can learn about note
reading, intervals, scales, and much more."
MiBAC
Music Theory Reference - "This Music Theory
Reference manual is an online version of the music theory
help that is built in to the MiBAC MUSIC LESSONS software
program."
The
Outside Shore- Jazz Education - "Outside
Shore Music has been a leading source of music education
on the Internet since 1992. In fact, my Jazz Improvisation
Primer was probably the very first example of online jazz
instruction to be made freely available via the Web. We
believe it is still the best, and it is still free."
Java
Music Theory - "Java Music Theory is a suite
of Java applets designed to help students of music theory
improve their proficiency at basic music theory skills."
Introduction
to Reading Music - "Some people think trying
to read music is hard and difficult. The following set
of pages will try to introduce the most important topics
in reading music in a very easy to understand way. Don't
expect to fly through all the lessons and understand.
As with anything new, it'll appear complicated and complex
but as you look at the examples and read the explanations
it will make sense."
Midi Files
(These
websites contain thousands of MIDI files that you can
download and jam to)
Doc
Doc's Place - "This site consists of Quality
Blues, Rock and Roll, Ez Listening, Drum Patterns, and
Jam Track MIDI files. Plus, a few extras."
Jim's
MIDI Links (midimaven.com) - "The best place
to find midi files for 2500+++ artists in Rock, Alternative,
Pop, R&B, Rap, Jazz, Blues, Dance, Hard Rock, Metal, Country,
and more."
The
MIDI Farm - Many MIDI files, many links to
other MIDI file sites, and links to downloadable MIDI
software for both Macs and PCs.
Just
Jazz MIDI Files - A well laid out site with
a very complete selection of jazz and jazz-blues MIDI
files.
