This audio and booklet presents 10 backing tracks for you to practice soloing. Each track is recorded twice, once with harmonica and once without. Improve your timing by keeping up with a professional group. Develop a bank of riffs while playing with a solid blues backing. Learn new phrasing techniques. Playing along will stimulate your powers of improvisation. Listening carefully to what each instrument is doing will help you emulate it or just blend in, picking up rhythm patterns and playing your favorite melody over some of the tracks. Become acquainted with different blues grooves. It's good fun and great practice whatever your level of proficiency. The booklet contains basic instruction on rhythm, tone, melody, harmony, tongue blocking, improvisation, positions and scales, bending notes, and more.

Elements of Music
Rhythm
Tone
Melody
Harmony

Tips
Tongue blocking
Dynamics
Tremolo
Style
Harmonicas

Improvisation
Turnarounds
Triplets & syncopation

Positions & scales
Circle of fifths
First position
Second position
More second position
Third position cross harp

Bending notes
What's bending?
How to bend notes using the C harmonica
More bending

Positions & chords
A few tunes
Glossary