• Book includes harmonica tab for these Songs:Ah'w Baby (Little Walter)All My Love In Vain(Williamson)Baby, What You Want Me To Do (Jimmy Reed)Blues With A Feeling (Little Walter)Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) (Little Walter)Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed)Can't Hold Out Much Longer (Little Walter)Checkin' Up On My Baby (Williamson)Cool Disposition (Williamson)Cross My Heart (Williamson)Don't Lose Your Eye (Williamson)Don't Start Me To Talkin'(Williamson)Down Child (Williamson)Fattening Frogs F

That is the kind of thing that keeps aspiring players interested. If you have the cd's you can play along (it helps)but you can really be playing some good blues in a matter of weeks instead of mastering "Frankie and Johhny"

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Worth its weight in gold!  Oct 30, 2002
Wow! Tons of material, excellent transcriptions, variety of difficulties, large format is very easy to read. I read music notation easily, and have no trouble following along with my recordings. If you only know harp tablature you may have to work harder to find the spot on the page with the lick you are trying to cop, but the tab notation is all there for you.

No discography in here that I could find, but "Essential Little Walter" and "Sonny Boy Williamson, His Best" will cover about half of the tunes in here. That's enough to keep me busy for a year or two.

What an incredible value. If you're ready to really study a huge load of licks and choruses by the masters, buy this book!

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Finaly a real bluesharp book with tabulature  Aug 07, 2000
There are many good books that teaches you how to begin playing the bluesharp. They have some short harpsolos that you can learn to play, but they are usually to few. For a long time I've tried to find a book with bluessolos containing tabulature for harmonica and finaly I found this wonderful book called Blues Harmonica Collection. The book is not suiteble for beginners but if you've played the bluesharp for a while and know how to play bendnotes, this is probably a challange for you. There are chords, notes, text and harmonica notation of songs recorded by great harmonica players as Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter for example. Many of the solos are difficult to learn but many of the songs are possible to listen to on record and that is a great help. But even if you don't have the records there are still many riffs and licks that you can learn from and practice. I have played the harmonica for a while but I've always had trouble with creating/building a nice solo - but this book has taught me alot about how some of the great harpplayers played their solos and fill-ins.

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have mercy!  Jul 13, 2004 By jed clampett "michael mclaughlin"
The other reviewers have very well said how great this book is so I won't repeat what they have written. It is amazing though that this is about the only book of harp tab available although given the fact that harp isn't as pop culture as guitar this probably makes sense. There's another book of tunes out by Glen Weiser (also on Amazon) that I haven't checked out and even though it only has about half as many tunes as this collection does I will probably eventually get it. Weiser also has a collection of fiddle tunes, Irish and American, for harmonica in tab form. After I got this Blues Harmonica Collection I also got the "His Best" collections of both Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter which have a good many of the songs contained in the book. It may be a good idea to have at least a C, D, and an A harp which will let you play along with about 15 or so songs in the book that are in these keys. There may be a good chance you already know a bit about harp and have a few of these keys so of course my "tips" here are maybe only for more novice players. (like myself!) A good choice of harp if you're getting started may be the Hohner Special 20 or the Lee Oskar. They were both about 20 bucks if you shop around a bit online although I recently saw the Oskars go up about an extra 5 bucks almost everywhere all at the same time! They are really nice harps though. Only other thing I might add is to also highly recommend the Rock n Blues Harmonica book by Jon Gindick and the Bluegrass Harmonica book by Mike Stevens.

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Blues Harmonica Collection  Aug 19, 2008 By J. Bates
Really great tab. The only thing I wish it had is a CD so you would not have to chase all the music. The music is a must to have with this book. This book is not for beginners.

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