Cross Harp Forever Video Instruction Series
Download Lessons 1-10 $39.95
Here’s a well organized video series that Jon made in 2020 that gives you a solid feel for the basics and builds from there. It’s filled with Jon’s rock-solid, step-by-step instruction with many subtle tricks, tips, understandings accumulated over the last 50 years of teaching harp. You download this valuable series to your computer and then transfer it to your devices.
- Lesson 1 – 18:41 Introduction to Series with instruction on basics of Breath, Embouchure, Articulation and Phrasing– and jam with Jon on his guitar.
- Lesson 2 -18:31 Muscle memory basic riffs with jamming to guitar.
- Lesson 3 – 20:31 Bending 2 draw, 3 draw, 4 draw and putting it in action.
- Lesson 4 – 23:09 Bad Habits, Putting riffs into 12 bar blues progression.
- Lesson 5 – 21:44 Blues Scale Down and Jam using 6 blow, slide ins, slide off.
- Lesson 6 – 20:46 Riffs on the bottom end of the harp.
- Lesson 7 – 29:47 Learn four easy spirituals, including one in 3rd position. These are usually the first types of songs harp players learn: “When the Saints Come Marchin’ In,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho,” “He’s Got the Whole World His Hands.”
- Lesson 8 – 16:42 Learn blues songs:” You’ve Got to Move,” ” Rockin’ Robin,”” Rollin’ and a Tumblin’,” and “Trouble in Mind.”
- Lesson 9 – 15:46 All about chugging, train imitations, groove, breathing
- Lesson 9.1 – 11:22 More on rhythm playing, phrasing, question and answer,
“Swinging a song,” Red River Valley, - Lesson 10 – 17:32 Using your hands to make your Harp Talk