My Gramps always said "To play the blues, you gotta live the blues". He didn't mean that you had to live down & out, or like a hobo, but rather that your head had to be in "that place" to make it work. As always - Thanks for sharing & Jam ON!!!
@belletain2014 жыл бұрын
How true, the passion of the harmonica is what keeps me coming back to it. I play my best when I think less and feel more. The practice is what allows me to internalize the technical and release the animal. Thanks for your work
@florentvauxion36647 жыл бұрын
This one is Adam Nhat Hanh!!! Yes playing with the belly, full music, free music. Thank you Doctor Gussow for this amazing lesson!!!
@CapnVerbs14 жыл бұрын
You have so much priceless material in your videos, but for some reason I keep coming back to this one. I have a five year old son as well, which allowed me to connect with you on a much more personal level than I have been able to in your other videos because I can instantly relate to what you are talking about. I love sharpening myself on the harmonica, but this technique that you speak of is actually helping me to sharpen my life as well. Thank you for being you. Many blessings.
@missmymissy15 жыл бұрын
Adam, you have taught me many things through your videos. For the first time you taught me something I didn't understand about myself. you hit the nail on the head. I cant keep it bottled up. The more I play on my own the more I feel like someone has to hear it or it's all just a waste. Thank you for sharing. The best vid you have made yet!
@blitzfultime7 жыл бұрын
i think your son is lucky to have a quality human being like yourself as a father,, great vid.
@chilidan793615 жыл бұрын
Adam, thanks for the spontaneous lesson about putting your heart into your music. We all get PO'd and the harp is a good constructive outlet. thanks, man. You are for real.
@Modernbluesharmonica15 жыл бұрын
Excellent question. I think that every player who really knows how to play blues went through a period where the music was completely expressive and completely fulfilling. But emotions often fade, shift, and evolve, and I suspect that every blues performer has sometimes merely gone through the motions without feeling it much. I've lost my feeling for the instrument many times, but it has always returned, eventually, albeit in a new form. Blues aren't the only way of living life deeply.
@OliverTseng114 жыл бұрын
Great speech. This should be the FIRST video to watch for learning blues harp.
@markjaeckel26336 жыл бұрын
Oliver Tseng. Right on ! Adam, you touched a nerve. A deep nerve.
@Maigist15 жыл бұрын
Great speech, Gussow. Hunger for drama is not only the heart of blues harp but also the driving force behind human existence - in my opinion. Transforming loneliness, despair and rage into blues is a vital part of it. Now that the technical harp stuff is all there, maybe you could do a series about blues psychology and mythical thinking to release musical potential. I'm grabbing to my Joseph Campbell books already!
@pphatgg13 жыл бұрын
Man you are so real! And real is what makes the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher. Thanks for everything you've taught me. Soon I'll fly to California and I really hope while I'm staying in the US that I'll have a chance to meet you...again (remember Helmond?) See you down the road. G
@pestman3814 жыл бұрын
right on. Life is a continu ess struggle, Feeling life, is feeling music and vibration. The blues harp is the perfect out and should be shared, because we all feel it dude. {right on.}
@ChrisMorales197914 жыл бұрын
Adam. Apart from the Blues you hit home with some of the things I am dealing with currently! Rage, anger, resentment, disappointment, and most of all not knowing how to release it. Or not knowing how to "dance on it". I have an idea now. That was a profound speech that obviously came from the heart. Finally I can see the soul in the music. Now Maybe I can get the soul out of the instrument, through me. LOL!
@bluethird14 жыл бұрын
"Leave poor Britney alone", love it Adam!!
@mrdannygb160613 жыл бұрын
you said some of your videos was cooky,i dont agree!for i hopeless ameteur starving for lessons they where the journey you really just find of that quality!thank you Adam!three years in on the blues harp youre the reason i any good at all!
@ElComadreja7779 жыл бұрын
This all applies to blues guitar too. Good job articulating it.
@txsphere15 жыл бұрын
Emotions are the full experience of life. We master our instruments not to make beautiful music, but so we can get out of the way and allow our humaness to come forth.
@markjaeckel26336 жыл бұрын
txsphere. I couldn't say it better!
@squircularanactorstale414810 жыл бұрын
I feel you and you have just answered some critical questions about blues philosophy!
@kevpinney15 жыл бұрын
Hey Adam, I could relate to you and what you had to say. Deep message, very important and thanks for sharing that with us. Sure good to see ya again. Thanks a lot.
@Modernbluesharmonica14 жыл бұрын
It's not memorized, but some of the parts are standard little bits of boilerplate. I'm assembling them freshly here, and I've got lots of freedom about how to inflect them, how to leave spaces between them, etc. The music at the end is a blues singer named Grace Brimage; I'm on harp; Wild Jimmy Spruill is on rhythm guitar. It was recorded in a tiny NYC studio near Penn Station in 1989. Never issued, until I put it on "Adam Gussow and Charlie Hilbert: Blues Classics." google it.
@rayram5515 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Your harp is sounding sweet, keep on playing. It is good to know how to channel every day problems, and keep moving foward.
@harmonicamanrandy5 жыл бұрын
Some of my best creativity and playing came out when my parents died. I know where you're coming from.
@simongeorge818410 жыл бұрын
Interesting philosophy there, I have heard Eric Clapton say something similar, about being given the gift to channel his anger through guitar. There is a story that at one recording session, he was newly sober so the rest of the guys snuck around behind his back drinking, when he found out he recorded "same old blues", for ultimate rage being expressed through blues guitar, check out the solos on that. He almost trashes his beloved 'blackie'
@Blacksheep4y15 жыл бұрын
:-))))))))))))) blues is life and it's coming from ya heart :-))) just do it let it out (of the box) I saw so many vids of you and Jason ... you're so good, but it's only one tone that makes you alive :-)) life
@hessonr15 жыл бұрын
"F-IT!" - Words to live by, hehe. I know all about that drama and anger, having a bad final quarter in '09 where everything is falling apart. (F-IT! haha) "...finding a way to constructively transform it into music." - You said it, I'm on my way, I hope! Good to hear from ya! (RyanMortos - MBH)
@zachvanslyke43417 жыл бұрын
Thank you Adam.
@Toracube15 жыл бұрын
A beautiful vid. You seem such a cool guy Adam. Good to see. Great lessons, every time! I have got so much out of them!!! Thanks man! Andy
@LosLocosDeLaPradera15 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video, Adam like all of yours
@KeyboardDP15 жыл бұрын
your back, that's awesome, great video 5 stars
@nacoran15 жыл бұрын
I play from ennui, (when I can be bothered to play.) Actually, right now, I'm sitting on my hands resisting the urge to play. (I'm getting over a really bad cold.) I don't play from anger much. I go more for hopelessness. Playing the harp is how I find catharsis.
@andahazy13 жыл бұрын
The Warrior, the Lover, the Painter.
@12barz15 жыл бұрын
Well said and played!
@mrdannygb160612 жыл бұрын
thank you for pulling me out of the aybass of my life and taking me on this journey a real blues odysey! unfortunatly i have to take it easy on my harps!(playing too hard sometimes)cause ive been physically unable to work after 33years of steady income,leaves me moneylessLOL! so thanks for saving my a..!
@kshatriyacowboy_15 жыл бұрын
don't play the harp, but your videos are the shit my man. your insight is fantastic
@joealanouf15 жыл бұрын
grate point! im at the thresh hold now
@boufgreg15 жыл бұрын
Children are so cute and you love them so much, otherwise no child would live past their 4th birthday. My words of wisdom from A father who has a 24 year old daughter that still drives me crazy. Then there is the wife. God invented the harmonica just for us.
@IErevos10 жыл бұрын
You move me in a way that you'll never know..
@gteamer19 жыл бұрын
heavenly rage;)all love
@Modernbluesharmonica14 жыл бұрын
Blues singer Grace Brimage, with Wild Jimmy Spruill on rhythm guitar (chuck chuck chuck chuck) and me on harmonica. Recorded in NYC in 1989. Jimmy is dead and I've been unable to track down Ms. Brimage. The cut is available on a digital album entitled BLUES CLASSICS, featuring the music of Adam Gussow and Charlie Hilbert. Google it!
@Tomlateralus314 жыл бұрын
damn adam, you get right to the soul stuff jaja! i really think, you should start making lyrics, i do all the time, it's my other way to get rid of that feeling in my guts a little at a time. and, you are a really good singer, warrior, painter , and poet! good luck, Tom
@Modernbluesharmonica14 жыл бұрын
@bbeddick : Thanks. I'm glad that the spirit of what I'm saying got through. You should come on down to Hill Country Harmonica in late May. (Google it.) We'd love to have you there.
@lexzonneveld28105 жыл бұрын
this man is awesome
@joope12514 жыл бұрын
I understand what you're trying to get at in this video; I just lack the ability to articulate it on the harmonica without either sounding pretty awful or concentrating too much about the machine language of the harp. One of these days though, I'll be able to bust out in improv. Thank you so much for the lessons.
@andrewswiftharp15 жыл бұрын
1.) Warrior, 2.) Lover, and 3.) Painter.
@EternallyRound9 жыл бұрын
Just a note that you have to have mastery of the technical stuff so that when the pissed off times come you can just grab the harp and wail and "F-it!."
@Modernbluesharmonica9 жыл бұрын
Austin Holloway : Absolutely right! Yes. It takes a lot of practice and study to develop the chops and musical knowledge required to play what you feel and have anything worthwhile come out.
@markjaeckel26336 жыл бұрын
Modern Blues Harmonica i just started playing the harp at 65 yrs. young. My marriage and depression provide me with the passion to learn the blues! ( just wish I'd started yrs. ago! ).
@nimblepix15 жыл бұрын
At least, that's how I interpret it.
@kc9pxz8 жыл бұрын
deep vid awesome man!
@25lber15 жыл бұрын
"F it" thanks Adam for sharing . I too have a young son Eoin and he is just 4 ,I know that love/hate thing your talking about.
@txsphere15 жыл бұрын
You might want to look up ninaflute and her Real Flute concept. Nina Perlove is another wonderful youtube Prof.
@wolverine18104710 жыл бұрын
I got it.... Adam was thrown out of the house with the threat that if he played that thing in the house one more time he'd really be playing the Blues!! Wait a minute, I have it all wrong - it's the acoustics in his Volvo that make the difference in tonality... that's it... what was I thinking.....
@brianwalden26634 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah I hear ya man really can't play good but I do like trying purty damn fun like your videos and would like to have a beer with ya
@ChrisMorales197914 жыл бұрын
Newb Question: That piece you played in this vid, is that memorized or are you free styling your way through the piece. Also the music at the end is awesome!!!
@cypher95115 жыл бұрын
Hi Adam, Welcome back.....What does the AG stand for in AG.1?
@nimblepix15 жыл бұрын
He's saying F*** it. In other words, forget about what you are noticing technically. It doesn't matter. Just play man, and feel the pain.
@bluetche15 жыл бұрын
Can anybody please could explain to a Brazilian guy, who is trying for three days to understand what Mr Gussow says in the last 2 minutes? Afit? afflict? I fear im missing some very important thing! Thanks
@MNessmith15 жыл бұрын
Gotta admit, the sappy sentimentalist in me was waiting for a little message to your son at the end. :-(
@deshiblue15 жыл бұрын
what can a 3 1/2 yr old can make angst that bad?
@cypher95115 жыл бұрын
Oh wait....I'm a moron.....Adam Gussow sheesh!
@guitarplayer22233315 жыл бұрын
you said "savage breast" haha great video adam as always the explanation of about releasing the rage is really useful for me. haha"leave britney alone"