Malaysian diatonic harmonica player Zhin Wong has launched a new video instruction series on his YouTube Channel. Zhin is an exceptionally gifted player, with special interest in blues, but with an inquisitiveness that takes him into other genres as well. His series will be a major contribution to blues players throughout Asia and beyond.
Blues music pops up everywhere around the world. The annual Himalayan Blues Festival was first staged in 2007, organized by the very young Samik Kharel. In this interview, Samik gives us all the details about the festival and how it is organized.
Appaurant is a new website that will help restaurants and bars build and maintain an iPhone application for their clientele. It’s part of a new revolution about promotion of location-based businesses. Owners of blues and jazz oriented bars and restaurants may wish to explore. These online and mobile applications are already available in the US and in some locations in Europe. They will soon arrive in Asia.
Ear Trainor 2.0 is an exceptional tool to help blues players learn to play by ear. Learn to recognize intervals, practice instantly playing back short melodies, set up your own online back up band to play blues in your choice of key and tempo. Thirty minutes a day with Ear Trainor will make you an awesome blues player.
Many working musicians are familiar with the Real Book series of “fake” books. This series has become the standard tool than many musicians haul around with them to all their gigs. While mostly oriented to jazz and pop bands, there are quite a number of chord charts for well-known blues songs. Two products have come [...]
So do you want to build up the reputation of your band? Well, here’s some advice from the band PHISH, as passed on by social marketing website The Hubze Project. While the advice relates to a major band, the lessons can be applied even to smaller bands seeking recognition. TELL US: Do you and your [...]
Have you ever thought about getting your blues recordings onto blues radio worldwide? Here’s one way to do it. Capt’n Barney hangs on the LiveBluesWorld.com community. The site does indeed have a world-wide vision. The Capt’n works as a volunteer for a college public radio station in Maine, US. And he actively tries to track [...]
EDITOR: Manila’s most knowledgeable proponent of traditional blues, Joric Maglanque, offers this announcement about an upcoming workshop. Ok, I’ve received some inquiries in the past and now is as good a time as any to do it because it’s for a good cause. This benefit workshop hopes to raise funds for our very own Anton [...]
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