Sonny Boy Williamson II Blues Riffs (Volume 21)

Here are another 60 blues harmonica riffs for your repertoire. This time ‘up steps the one and only Sonnyboy Williamson’ with his wonderful playing to inspire us.

In this volume you will find lots of types of blues harp riffs to learn, have fun with and use in your playing; intro riffs, outro riffs, turnarounds, solo building blocks, chordal chugging riffs for the low C harmonica - which also work fine on a normal C, question and answer phrases very typical of Sonnyboy’s playing - in fact everything you need to sound like Sonnyboy.

It starts out very simply and even a total beginner will be able to play it. As you get into the book you come across new ideas like Sonnyboy’s unique approach to playing single notes. We will teach you how to play it in a few simple steps.

You will learn to play those wonderful deep chords, the high piercing phrases, the tremolo and vibrato techniques, the choking and tongueblock bending, the amazing phrasing and if you study this book you will come away knowing so much more about the man known as Rice Miller or Sonny Boy Williamson the second!

This book and recording is the short cut fast track to playing like Sonnyboy.

There are four playalong tracks at the end of the album to try the riffs out with and a bonus track called Harmonirap! featuring Ben on harmonica and Mike Fry rapping.

The downloadable pack contains MP3s of the tracks and a PDF of the book - all in a ZIP file.