Sep 17, 2002 a vertical riff is one that repeats, but transposed to follow the chord roots. This sort of listening and thinking opens the door to a deeper understanding and assimilation of the blues. Struggling to make 12 slow blues riffs by sonny terry sound awesome. Learn to play blues riffs on your harmonica or harp like sonny terry in this. In the primaryhued spectrum of blues basslines the 2beat is often known as the other thing. Saunders terrell, better known as sonny terry october 24, 1911march 11, 1986, was a blues musician. Then perhaps i just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. Try improving your single notes and bends first with these easy video lessons. While on vacation recently i came across a brand new sonny terry cd for 4 euros so grabbed it. What we would like you to do is learn as many riffs as possible and use them in your solos and backing playing.
Sep 23, 2016 in this lesson, i want to teach you 3 variations on a harmonica riff inspired by the great sonny boy williamson and his song, bring it on home. Sonny terry blues riffs learn to play harmonica download. In 101 blues riffs you will find classic riffs taken from or inspired by wonderful players, then simplified a little and played three times for you at three different speeds. I shall call this moral problem epistemic addiction. I urge you to make this search, and to check out those tabs. The sourcebook of sonny terry licks for harmonica by sonny. Guitar lovers licks riffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes.
Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and high. Sonny terry blues riffs book 3 sonnyboys music store. By understanding sonny terry, you will learn how to enjoy and live in the real peoples music that is on a train thats bound for glory. The next time the narrator sees sonny is after the war. About this harmonica course in these play along harmonica lessons for intermediate harmonica players, we delve even further into sonny terrys style. Sonnys blues by james baldwin to print or download this file, click the link below. All our harmonica lessons can be downloaded as audio and pdf packs. These sonny terrystyle riffs aim to introduce the developing harmonica player to the sound of the great man himself. This is because they work best when all the chords are major type chords.
Blues riffs blues riffs is usually repeating patterns, played on the lowest strings on the guitar. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. A complete listing of the tabbed solos and riffs from the rockpop category is found in the boxes below and are all available in the members area. It was around the time of fullers death that terry performed at the spirituals to swing concert series at carnegie hall. Sonny and fuller recorded together until fullers death in 1940. In these play along harmonica lessons for intermediate harmonica players, we delve even further into sonny terrys style. Ben hewlett harmonica course sonny terry blues riffs vol 18 bookcd. All our harmonica lessons can be downloaded as audio and pdf. Learn to play 12 slow blues riffs by sonny terry on your harmonica, the tab is below. Well be playing around with some jimmy reed and sonny terry riffs on this sunny gospeltinged groove. Apr 19, 2017 hello and welcome to this weeks harmonica lesson, where i will be showing you how to play sonny terrys classic tune, bring it on home to me. You will need a harmonica in the key of a, and we will be playing in 2nd position in the key of e major. As is obvious, this is an exploration of sonny terrys acoustic blues style.
Sonny terry has got to be explained to the people or his art will go over their head. The whoopin and hollerin thing still eludes me though. Sonny sings quite a bit and has a really good blues voice. You will learn to play 60 new sonny terry traditional blues riffs and expand your skills. The narrator and sonny have a horrible fight, and they dont speak again until the narrator writes to sonny in jail. Sonnys blues by james baldwin plot summary litcharts. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. This carries on the theme from last week of major pentatonic blues. Sonny terry blues riffs learn to play harmonica download lessons. Sonny is living downtown with a group of musicians. Sonny s blues i read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. In 1934 sonny teamed with blind boy fuller, and the two performed on street corners around durham, n.
You will learn to play 60 new sonny terry traditional blues riffs and expand your skills and your repertoire. Play sonny terry style on harmonica and dazzle your friends. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and i. He was born in greensboro, north carolina on october 24, 1911, and died on march 11, 1986 in mineola, new york. Sonny set the blues harp bar so high that no one has been able to touch it. Easyharp tabs, blues harmonica tabs by easyharp, a selction of 12 songs with tablature pdf and audio file mp3. May 23, 2020 you need 101 blues riffs and here they come. Overall, in the first volume, youll find 12 songs, that are especially made for those who are already able to play blues harmonica and want to get deep into the instrument language studying different styles of blues harmonica masters, such as little walter, sonny boy williamson. Hello and welcome to this weeks harmonica lesson, where i will be showing you how to play sonny terry s classic tune, bring it on home to me. Sonny terry, little walter, sonnyboy williamson 2, william clarke, jj milteau, brendan power, big walter, charlie. I heard sonny terry and brownie mcgee at the second fret in philadelphia.
I have supplied the book and audio files well, 90% of it as downloadable documents and mp3s with each lecture. The author, tom ball, has done a superlative job of dissecting sonys harmonica licks, and presenting the techniques clearly. A paul lamb lesson on playing sonny terry talkin harmonica blues. Bring it on home to me sonny terry blues harmonica.
In this course i am teaching you how to play everything in the book that i wrote with paul lennon called sonny terry 2 blues riffs. If thats what youre looking for, this is a great resource. Be on the lookout for imitative contours in melodies and riffs, questionandanswer phrases, and other thematic development strategies. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Bring it on home to me sonny terry blues harmonica lesson. Lead belly, sister rosetta tharpe, sonny terry, and brownie mcghee in small mississippi towns, harlem theaters, and the industrial british north, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, and costume, to stage. So why should you pay me for my tabs, when the alternativefree tabsis so widely. Sonny terry blues riffs vol 18 bookcd eagle music shop. James baldwin, christian, grace, sonnys blues, twentieth century. These work best on a more basic blues with a 5 4 chords in bars 910 rather than 2 5 chords. Sonny terry blues riffs ben hewlett, paul lennon songs. You can find lots of free tabs on the web, simply by searching the phrases free harmonica.